Iran's Brutal Repression of Minorities | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Rachel Avraham | 19 Adar 5781 – March 3, 2021
The Jamestown Foundation recently reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran handed out prison sentences to five Azerbaijani activists for supporting Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War. Simultaneously, they reported that during Armeniaâs occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh, many Azerbaijani mosques were transformed into Iranian mosques and were thus were made âPersianâ in style following repair work, a reality that greatly infuriated Azerbaijanâs president, who viewed the measure to be cultural repression. Around the same period, Hamid Mutashir, the President of the Al A...