Ethnic and religious minorities

World leaders call for new Syrian regime to respect minorities

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World leaders call for new Syrian regime to respect minorities

Top diplomats from the United States, Turkey, the European Union, and Arab nations have agreed that a new government in Syria should respect minority rights, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday following talks in Aqaba, Jordan, and direct contacts with the rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The meetings occurred as … Read more

Iranian minorities will topple the regime – opinion

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Iranian minorities will topple the regime – opinion

In recent days, I have come under fire from Nasser Kan’ani, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, after I published an article in The Jerusalem Post calling for Iran to be broken up into a number of separate ethnic states.  Clearly, their reaction to my article highlights how the regime feels threatened by … Read more