Friday, 2 March 2007

News from Balochistan, February 07

Balochistan Peoples Front, 1.3.07
Reza Hossein Borr


News from Balochistan


1. Chabahar, Balochistan, Iran, Balochistan Peoples Front, 24 Feruary 2007—Three members of Iranian security forces were killed in military operations that were carried out by the Revolutionary Guards to cleanse the city of Chabahar from Baluchistan insurgents. According to Ilna news agency, several security guards were wounded and four of them were arrested by the Baluch fighters.

No organization has yet taken the responsibility for this incident but the local sources said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards organised a huge cleansing mission to dislocate a lot of indigenous people but they were faced by strong resistance by the people. The Baluch fighters who were in the area began helping the local people and consequently a shoot out began between the two sides.

The Iranian regime is carrying out a huge cleansing operation at the border areas of Iran and Pakistan to force the Baluch people of Iran to migrate to Pakistan. The Pishin area in which the incident happened is a beautiful and fertile land and the regime intends to remove the local people and transfer the ownership of the lands to its own Shia agents from other parts of Iran. The idea of ethnic cleansing in this part of Baluchistan began about the beginning of the revolution and has continued against the strong resistance of the Baluch people.

2. News of PRMI
The Peoples Resistance Movement of Iran (former Jundallah) was forced to engage in a series of military operations in February 2007 against security targets of the Iranian regime. These operations proved that the regime is vulnerable and can be defeated even in the major cities.

1. Zahedan, Balochistan, Iran, 3.2.07-- four top Iranian security forces have been killed in an armed clash between Baluch insurgents and the Iranian security forces in Zahedan, Baluchistan. The incident happened in the centre of the city at 8 PM.

2. Explosion kills 19 members of Iran's elite guards

February 15, 2007

Zahedan, Balochistan, Iran - A car bomb killed 19 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday in the deadliest attack in years near the Pakistani border.

A Sunni Muslim militant group called Jundallah, or God's Brigade, which has been blamed for past attacks on Iranian troops, claimed responsibility for the bombing, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
3. Zahedan, Balochistan, Iran, 18.2.07--The Baluch fighters of the Peoples Resistance Movement of Iran (former Jundallah) exploded a sound bomb in an empty school to attract the security forces. As soon as the security forces arrived at the scene, an armed clash began between the Baluch fighters and the security forces for about two hours. The Baluch fighters returned to their bases safely. The Iranian government did not announce the number of casualties of its forces.
4. Sarawan, Balochistan, Iran, 23.2.07-- the Baluch fighters of the Peoples Resistance Movement of Iran exchanged fire with the Iranian security forces in Sarawan. The government announced three security men have been killed in this incident.

The objectives of these military operations are defined in the next paper.

The reality of the matter is that if a small group with limited resources can carry out such successful operations inside Iran, stronger and bigger groups can inflict fatal blows on the Iranian regime. The time is right for the change of the regime in Iran as the regime will never stop its terrorist policies of supporting and financing tourism, obstructing peace, expansive influence in the Middle East and interfering in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Afghanistan.

The Iranian regime has transformed itself into a super power because of these policies.

3. Sarawan, Balochistan, Iran, Balochistan Peoples Front, 24 Feruary 2007-- Two members of security forces were killed in Hidooch, Sarawan, Baluchistan on 24. 2007, according to the local sources. Those who witnessed the battle between the Baluch fighters and the Iranian forces said that the security forces attacked a place in Hiddoch with a large number of soldiers but the local people fought back and killed two soldiers. The security forces retreated and the local armed men also left the area and returned to their safe houses in the mountains of Sarawan.

There has been several armed conflict between the fighters of Baluchistan in Sarawan and the security forces in recent weeks. Sarawan is located on the eastern part of Baluchistan and has borders with Pakistan. Nobody claimed the responsibility for this clash. Baluch political organizations sometimes refuse to take responsibility for their military operations in order to avoid further conflict with Iranian regime.

The regime tested one of its long-range missiles Shahab 3 in Hidooch. The missile was fired from a point from the Western part of Iran and travelled thousands of km to land in Hidooch few years ago. The Islamic Republic of Iran made a huge propaganda about the range and the accuracy of Shahab Missiles but it did not hit the spot that was designated for and therefore, landed few km away from the target.


4. Samirom, Esfahan, Iran, Balochistan Peoples Front, 31 January 2007-- 16 people were killed in Samirom in the central part of Iran in a 24-hours armed clash between Baluch insurgents and Iranian security forces. The Baluch fighters of Foghan Group were on their way to Tehran when they were identified by the security forces. A chase and shoot out began immediately and the Baluch fighters entered the city of Samirom to refuel their vehicle but the security forces closed on them and the shootout began and several security men were killed.

To avoid the killing of the innocent citizens, the Baluch fighters left the city while the security forces were chasing them. They entered a farm outside the city and asked the farmer for fuel or a car. The farmer later revealed that the fighters were ready to buy his car for a lot of money but he refused to sell the car and therefore, the fighters left him alone without hurting him or taking his car or his property by force. The farmer was very sympathetic to the fighters. He said that they were good people and they could have taken his car away by force but they did not. It was at this stage that the security forces arrived at the farm and the shootout began again. The security forces had armed some militias and 16 members of the militia were killed in the battle.

Four members of the fighters were also killed and three of them somehow rescued themselves and returned safely to their bases in Baluchistan. Several interviews and articles were given and written by the people of Samirom in which there were a lot of support for the fighters who tried everything to avoid the killing of innocent people. The regime took the bodies of the dead fighters naked and demonstrated them as a sort of exhibition to the people Samirom who were very infuriated to see the insult on the fighters and removing of their cloths.

5. Iranshahr, Balochistan, Iran, Balochistan Peoples Front, 31 January 2007

Three Baluch fighters were killed by security forces in Iranshahr, Baluchistan. The Baluch fighters were taken by surprise in the village of Sarkahuran when a large number of security forces attacked them, according to Iranian television. The dead fighters belonged to an armed group that had a reputation for attacking the security forces for a long time. The Iranian television said that none of the security forces were killed but the witnesses observed that the shootout continued for few hours. All the roads were closed from different directions.

Eye witnesses said that they saw the security forces were carrying some injured people in uniform. According to Iranian sources there are more than
100 armed groups in Baluchistan who are fighting for their national rights and a federal system in Iran.

6. Sarawan, Balochistan, Iran, Balochistan Peoples Front, 31 January 2007-- A young Baluch was killed in Sarawan, Baluchistan by the Iranian security forces on 31st of January 2007. The Iranian official news agency (IRNA) announced that the young man was an armed fighter but the eye witnesses said that he was an ordinary person who was living in Sarawan and he had not any connections with the Baluch fighters. The eye witnesses also said that they saw the security forces arguing with him and suddenly one of them aimed at him and shot him dead. The Iranian news agency only gave his first name as Basheer. It is the official policy of the Iranian regime to conceal the full details of the people who are shot dead or hanged in public.

The family of the killed man registered a complaint against the security forces but no one was arrested. Hundreds of Baluch people have been shot in the streets of the cities in the last 28 years and not even one security men has been arrested. The Iranian government has given security forces a Free Hand to shootout anybody they like without having any documents against them.

7. Kahnouj, Balochistan,Iran, , Balochistan Peoples Front, 31 January 2007--

Two young Baluch fighters were killed and few more have been arrested by the Iranian security forces in Baluchistan. The Iranian official news agency-IRNA- reported that the two fighters belonged to an armed group that have been fighting the Iranian regime for a number of years. The agency reported that the government officials persuaded some Baluch leaders to persuade two fighters to surrender.

Kahnouj is officially part of Kerman province. About 30 percent of Baluchistan soil is part of Kerman province to dilute the population of Baluchistan. The British officers who travelled to Baluchistan 2 centuries ago estimated the area of Baluchistan as 280 thousands skm. Now the area of Baluchistan is 180 thousand skm. Other parts of Baluchistan have been annexed to Kerman, Hormozgan and Southern Khorasan provinces.

The same agency said that four Baluch have been arrested in Southern Khorasan which has borders with Baluchistan and Afghanistan.


Reza Hossein Borr is a leadership consultant and the creator of 150 CDs.
He is also the author of Manual Success, Manual of Coaching and Mentoring, Motivational Stories that Can Change Your Life, and a New Vision for the Islamic World. He is also the creator of 15 Models for Change. He leads Balochistan Peoples Front. He can be contacted by email: balochfront@aol.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com

©Copyright, Reza Hossein Borr, 2007, London, UK

Objectives of Jondollah operations in February 2007

Balochistan Peoples Front
Reza Hossein Borr

Objectives of Jondollah operations in February 2007

The Iranian regime can collapse easily

The Islamic Republic of Iran has portrayed an invincible image of itself, exaggerating about its military power, people power, strategy power, proxy power and religious power. To have an objective, realistic and concrete assessment of the government's claims about its invincibility, The People's Resistance Movement of Iran (Former Jondollah) organised and carried out a series of military operations against the military and security targets of the regime. These operations were carried out successfully without even one casualty in Zahedan, the centre of Baluchistan which is a militarised zone.

The success of these military operations proved:

Army power

1. The Iranian regime is more vulnerable than has been portrayed in international media.

2. The Iranian soldiers are less skilled than has been claimed.

3. The regime has less control on Iranian population than has been advertised.

4. The security forces and army are not dedicated to the Iranian regime as it has been claimed.

5. Military operations can be carried out almost everywhere in the country with full success.

6. The Iranian regime has more propaganda power than substance.

7. A small group of skilled fighters can generate a great impact on international and internal public opinion.

8. The Baluch fighters are using their own limited resources and if they have substantial support from a reliable source they can form a very strong force that can carry out huge operations, uprisings, civil campaigns, marches, protests and strikes in different parts of the country.


People's power

1. The people of Iran support a popular uprising if they are sure that the leaders of uprising are resolute in their decision and committed to success.

2. The people of Iran are prepared to join resistance movements as thousands of people have applied for membership of People's Resistance Movement of Iran.

3. The Iranian regime will collapse easily when the people realise that there is a reliable strong opposition group that can take the regime head on.

4. In spite of the government's claims the absolute majority people of Iran do not support this regime.

5. The regime has lost popularity.

6. The people have lost faith in the regime.

7. The people have realised that Islam has been used as a tool for seizing power and sustaining it.

Strategy power

1. The Iranian regime is not very competent in drawing and formulating effective strategies.

2. All the strategies that have been designed to trigger popularity among the masses have failed.

Proxy power

1. The Iranian regime has formed, trained, financed and equipped different militia to work in different provinces of Iran as well as in different countries.

2. These proxy groups in Baluchistan, Khuzistan, Kurdistan and other provinces have failed to live up to the expectations. These groups are not prepared to kill and get killed for the sake of the Iranian regime.

3. There are a lot of proxy groups in Baluchistan and regime expected them to work on their behalf for collecting information, participating in military operations and joining the army and security forces in their different operations. In practice, they have failed in the 90 percent of their objectives.

4. It seems that these groups are prepared to receive financial help to finance their families but they are not prepared to sacrifice their own selves or their families for the sake of regime they do not believe in anymore.


Religious power

1. The Iranian clerics have lost their religious influence on people.

2. The clerics have become so visibly corrupt that everybody can see their illegitimate activities.

3. Islam as a religion is losing its credibility among the Shia Muslim of Iran.

4. The clerics as a source of inspiration and guidance have lost their credibility and therefore they have become a source of discrimination and injustice.

5. Iranian people are not willing anymore to sacrifice their interests, beliefs, aspirations and objectives for the sake of the present regime.

Propaganda power

1. The Iranian regime is very strong in propaganda outside Iran.

2. Most of the success of the Iranian regime has been achieved through propaganda.

3. The Iranian regime has been successful in convincing its foreign enemies that it is too strong for them to take on.

4. The Iranian regime has been successful in convincing foreign countries that they have less power than Iran.

5. The Iranian regime has been successful in dividing international community through propaganda.

6. The Iranian regime is counting on the division among international community more than on its on power.

7. The Iranian regime has succeeded in convincing other countries that it can inflict heavy blows on them if they interfere in its affairs or its allies. But in practice it cannot do that.

If a small group can carry out huge military operations so successfully, a strong and big force can do more.

Reza Hossein Borr is a leadership consultant and the creator of 150 CDs.
He is also the author of Manual Success, Manual of Coaching and Mentoring, Motivational Stories that Can Change Your Life, and a New Vision for the Islamic World. He is also the creator of 15 Models for Change. He leads Balochistan Peoples Front. He can be contacted by email: balochfront@aol.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com

©Copyright, Reza Hossein Borr, 2007, London, UK

Saturday, 17 February 2007

Mosaheba Hossein Borr Baa sedaye Amrica 18 FEB

I have an interview with the Voice of America TV on 18 Feb 2007, Sunday at 3.3 London time and 4.30 European time about the latest developments in Balochistan.

Man rouz yakshanbeh 29 Bahman, saat 3.3 be waght London, 4.30 be waght uroupa , ba sedaye America TV
MOSAHEBA daram.

Reza Hossein Borr

Friday, 16 February 2007

Mosaheba Hossein Borr ba Dr Nourizadeh

I had an interview with Dr Nourizadeh on Channel one TV on Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 about recent developments on Balochistan.
The link is bellow.

Man baa nourizadeh rouz 5shanbeh mosahba dashton.
Link: nourizadeh@aol.com

پنجره اي رو به خانه پدري
http://www.nourizadeh.com/archives/002602.php
كانال يك
پنج شنبه ۱۵/۲/۲۰۰۷
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Thursday, 15 February 2007

interview with Reza Hossein Borr

I have an interview with Dr Nourizadeh, Channel one TV, at 5.30, today 15 February, 2007.

Reza Hossein Borr

Tuesday, 26 December 2006

Ahmadinejad's mission was to restore the cleric’s credibility

Ahmadinejad's mission was to restore the cleric’s credibility
Reza Hossein Borr

Ahmadinejad was elected to restore the credibility of the disgraced Iranian clerics and he has succeeded in doing so. The recent elections proved that.

An old Baluch master told his students that strategy is about saying something, doing something else, meaning something else to confuse and disorientate your opponent. This master advised his students that never allow your opponent to understand your true intentions. To completely conceal your true intentions you need to create at least four layers of disguise at beliefs level, interests level, needs level and news level. He added that you will be only defeated when your opponent clearly understands what you think, what you do, what you say, and what you intend. For the right decision always comes from the clarity of understanding of an issue, therefore, never allow clarity of understanding of your intentions to reach the opponents. This strategy has worked for ages and it is working now for the Iranian regime.

The Iranian regime concealed its main mission under the tree layers of internal beliefs, regional needs and international interests.

The concealed intention of bringing Ahmadinejad to power was to restore the lost credibility of the disgraced clerics. The Iranian clerics lost their complete popularity after 26 years of mismanaging the country and misleading the people. They impoverished the country, sponsored terrorism and brought disappointment. The Iranian clerics were completely hated by the Iranian people by the time Ahmadinejad became the president. They were internationally recognised as terrorists and criminals who had supported terrorist activities. The conviction of the supreme leader and Rafsanjani in Mikonos case (the assignation of KURDISH Leaders in Germany), Argentinean case (Bomb blast in the Jewish Centre) and the recent judgments of an American court regarding Khobar Towers of Saudi Arabia clearly prove their criminal background. These cases explicitly blamed the Iranian leaders who were clerics at the times of these terrorist activities.

The clerics who faced internal and international isolation had to do something to restore their credibility. Helping Ahmadinejad to win the fraudulent election was to bring somebody on the scene of Iran who was known in Iran as a butcher and ideologically an extremist. He had strong views that he expressed with a rude language. He had the stupidity to say the kind of things that no politician had said in the history of Iran before. He was encouraged to say what he said in order to scare the Iranians inside and the international community outside. Nobody expected a person of Ahmadinejad's nature to become the president of Iran if it was not for saving the old rulers.

The Western culture divides people in bad guys and good guys. The Iranian Ayatollahs were bad guys before Ahmadinejad. Somebody should have appeared in Iran to make the Ayatollahs appear good guys. That was Ahmadinejad.
Ahmadinejad never knew why he was chosen as the president. When he was elected he expressed his views. That made him appear the bad guy while in fact he is better than many Ayatollahs. He was made so bad that the previous clerics who were convicted criminals looked good.

In the recent elections Ahmadinejad's supporters did not win. They were not meant to win. They were meant to scare. The people were so much scared of them that they voted for the less scary ones. How elections were conducted, how the votes were cast and counted indicated a lot of fraud and negotiations behind the scenes to decide who must win and who must lose. Obviously the supreme leader and few other clerics who had devised the strategy of restoring their capabilities through demonising Ahmadinejad wanted to test the pulse of Iranian people and international community. The results of elections were not of any significant importance. The local councils in Iran are powerless institutions which have no any authority to make major decisions. The Council of the Experts which is responsible for appointing a leader and supervising his work does not have anything to do with managing and leading the country. These elections therefore did not have any significance. But they did serve a purpose. They demonstrated that the strategy of restoring the credibility of the disgraced clerics had been effective.

These elections showed that Ahmadinejad has been so bad that international community expressed happiness about the elections of the previous clerics like Rafsanjani. The Iranian people also showed some satisfaction. Ahmadinejad has been used quite effectively to restore some credibility to some clerics. He had to do the kind of things that made the Iranian people and international community aspire for the old days of Khatami and Rafsanjani although ALL serial killings in Iran and all terrorist activities of the Iranian regime have happened under these two clerics. In fact since Ahmadinejad has come to power, less terrorist activities have happened. Ahmadinejad who is very remote from wisdom and knowledge said the kind of things that scared everybody but in fact he did not do anything worse than the clerics had done before. In fact no major terrorist activity has happened during Ahmadinejad's presidency but his talks were so rude and rough that made Rafsanjani and Khatami look like good guys.

If it was not for Ahmadinejad, Khatami and Rafsanjani would never look good.

As the recent elections generated some satisfaction internally and internationally, Ahmadinejad will be persuaded even more to escalate war of words against the world until he demonises himself so much that everybody would be happy for Rafsanjani or Khatami or somebody like them to be elected in the next presidential elections. His rude talks will expand until he makes the old disgraced clerics quite electable in the coming elections of Parliament and presidency. The Iranian people as well as the international community will be pleased to see Ahmadinejad disappear and the old guard return with a new spirit and revitalised character.

The regime would be safe. The clerics will be safe. Amadinejad will get another big job. The Iranian people will continue to suffer. The international community will be happy for few months to be fooled again to hear nice talks while the regime will continue the policy of harbouring terrorism and exporting revolution in the Middle East.

It seems that international community has no in-depth understanding of the Iranian regime. Yet just another master piece of propaganda. The mind of Iranian clerics is more complicated than the capability of ordinary political figures to comprehend.

One of the Iranian leaders has recently said the West never understood the Iranian people or the Iranian regime. He was right. When I hear the Western experts talk about Iran I conclude that they would never understand the complexity of strategies the Iranian regime has used to confuse them for over 28 years. Even the most well-known thinkers of the West have very superficial understanding of the Iranian situation. When the Iranian regime applies strategies that the West does not understand, formulating credible policies for encountering Iran would be very difficult. For 28 years the West thought they did understand the Iranian mind and therefore, took different measures to either change the Iranian regime or contain it. They failed in both. None of their policies worked. The Iranian regime moved from strength to strength and used all the resources of the Western world to make itself No 1 power in the Middle East.

The West not only failed to limit the power of the Iranian government but whatever they did was used by the Iranian government to make itself stronger and more powerful in the Middle East. From not having any influence in any part of the Middle East, the Iranian regime has become the most powerful government in the region. Whatever the West did was somehow in the favour of Iranian regime. Whether the Western countries formulated and implemented these policies deliberately to turn Iran into the major Middle East power or they were confused so much that their policies unwittingly helped the Iranian regime to become the most important power in the region.

The regime said something, did something else and meant something different. It created the right conditions for the governments of the region and the international community to believe its lies as truth. It will be a long time before confusion ends and clarity of thoughts emerges.

Reza Hossein Borr is a leadership consultant and the creator of 150 CDs.
He is also the author of Manual Success, Manual of Coaching and Mentoring, Motivational Stories that Can Change Your Life, and a New Vision for the Islamic World. He can be contacted by email: balochfront@aol.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com

©Copyright, 2006, Reza Hossein Borr, London, UK

Sunday, 24 December 2006

Shia equality or Shia supremacy?

Reza Hossein Borr http://coachingandmentoringonline.com

Shia equality or Shia supremacy?

Every human being as a citizen of a country has an equal right of participation in political process. The person may be a Shia, a Sunni, a Christian, a Jew or the follower of any other religion. As the Declaration of Human Rights has stated all human beings are equal and must be treated equally and must have equal opportunities in their countries. If we accept this article of the Declaration of Human Rights we must also accept that the Shias must have equal rights with the Sunnis wherever they live and the Sunnis must have equal rights with the Shias wherever they live. If we consider equality of rights as the most important value that governs the relationships between different people we campaign for something which is just, acceptable and supportable.

If we campaign for the supremacy of one religion, we act in contrast of the value of equal rights and therefore, our campaign is not just, is not acceptable and must not be supported. It is true that many Shias in the Islamic world have no equal rights in many areas of life but it is also true that the Sunnis of Iran have less rights than any Shia in any Islamic country. Iran has taken the role of championing the rights of the Shia people. It is fighting relentlessly in all countries to secure their rights but Iran which is dominated by the Shias, have deliberately denied the most basic rights of the Sunnis in the last 28 years.

Discriminations against the Sunnis

Discrimination against the Sunnis covers every part of life from education, to politics, business, religion and business. These are some examples:

1. Educational discrimination against the Sunnis of Iran

There are 44,000 students in Iranian Baluchistan universities. Even 4, 000 of them are not Sunni Baluch. The Iranian government deliberately does not allow the Sunni Baluch of Iran to enter universities freely. This is while, according to one United Nations research, the Baluch children are the most talented children in Iran. This policy is pursued in all other Sunni dominated areas. Only in one county of Baluchistan, there are 500 schools which are built with cardboards and tents.


2. Political discrimination against the Sunnis of Iran

Since the beginning of the revolution, the Shia regime of Iran has not allowed even one Sunni to become prime minister, president, minister, an army general, and an ambassador. There is not even one single Sunni in Iranian Foreign Ministry. There is not even one Sunni chief executive in the whole country. All the officials in the Sunnis provinces and cities are the Shias who have been appointed by the Shia government.

3. Religious discrimination against the Sunnis of Iran

The Iranian media and leaders cite every day dozens of insulting remarks about the principles of Sunni religion. They have published hundreds of books which discredit the most important values of Islam. Even the Iranian government has built recently a huge temple to promote Abu Lo Lo, the killer of Omar, the second Caliph, as a great Islamic figure. The regime celebrates every year the murder of Omar by staging some ceremonies in which his effigy is burnt in public.

There are about one million Sunnis in Tehran, the capital of Iran, but the Iranian authorities do not allow them to build even one mosque. They are not allowed to perform their prayers in other Shia mosques. When they try to perform Friday prayers in parks, the security forces attacked them.

4. Economic discrimination against the Sunnis of Iran

99% of the Iranian businesses are under the control of the Shia population of Iran while 30% of Iranian population is Sunni. The government creates every barrier for the Sunnis to stop them from starting or developing their businesses. The major import and export licences are allocated to the Shia business. Even in the main cities of Sunnis, all the facilities of business are given to the Shias to deliberately impoverish the Sunni population of Iran. 70% to 80% of Sunnis are unemployed.

Shia inclusions in political and economics sources in Sunni dominated countries

While Iran is applying all kinds of discriminations against the Sunnis, the Sunni governments are quite generous towards their Shia population. It is a paradox that a regime that is fighting for the rights of the Shias in different countries discriminates more than any other country against the Sunnis in Iran. The Sunni governments are usually inclined to include the Shias in political and economic powers. These are some examples:

1. Pakistan

Everybody knows Bhtto family in Pakistan. They are a Shia family but they have governed Pakistan three times. There have been other Shia presidents and prime ministers in Pakistan. The Shias in Pakistan enjoy complete equality in a Sunni dominated country. There have been many Shia ministers in all governments of Pakistan from the beginning of Pakistan up to now. There are Shia army generals, there are Shia ambassadors and diplomats and there are big Shia businessmen. They have their own mosques. There are Shias in different levels of civil service too.

2. Afghanistan

There are several Shia ministers in Afghan government. There have been always Shia ministers in various Afghan regimes. There are Shia governors in Afghanistan. There are Shia army generals in Afghanistan. There are very rich Shia businessmen in Afghanistan too.

3. Kuwait

There are two Shia ministers in Kuwait. There are many Shia generals in Kuwait army. There are many Shia diplomats in the Foreign Ministry. There are many Shia businessmen in Kuwait. They have their mosques and they are free to perform their prayers.

4. The state of Qatar

There are dozens of Shia ministers, army generals, ambassadors, businessmen and high officials in Qatar and other Arab countries.

While we see that there are so many Shia high officials in Islamic and Arab world, why there is not even one single high official from the Sunnis in Iran? Why there is so much discrimination against the Sunnis in a regime that claims to embody Islamic justice, Islamic equality and brotherhood? And why there is so much silence about the exclusions of Sunnis from all sources of power in Iran? If the Shia government of Iran is fighting for the rights of Shias everywhere, why the Sunni governments of the world are not fighting for the rights of Sunnis in Iran?

Practically the Shias have had secured their supremacy in Iran at the cost of 30% of its Sunni population. Now they are seeking supremacy in other countries. For them the idea of equal rights is not a value of considerable importance when it comes to getting their own supremacy but when they do not have equal rights in other countries, they make a great issue of it.

What is disturbing everybody is not the quest of the Shias for their equal rights but their desire for supremacy. That has generated considerable resistance everywhere. Iran as the main Shia country must accept the value of equal rights for all its citizens inside Iran and then make its case for the equality of rights of the Shias in other countries. Nobody believes in Iranian campaign for the equal rights of the Shias in the Islamic countries if the Iranian regime does not believe in the equal rights of Sunnis in Iran. The Iranian regime must make itself first a believable example and must establish a model system which is a model of equality.

Iran has challenged other Islamic countries that they were not following the Islamic principles of brotherhood, equality and justice. If the government believes in these principles it must implement them fully and completely in Iran first. Once Iran is the embodiment of equality and justice, many other people and governments would follow it voluntarily. The Iranian regime can bring more credibility to its own system and to its own religion if it carries out what it preaches.

Nobody is ready to accept the supremacy of the Shias. It is a delusion that may initially grab some points but finally as the quest for supremacy is conducted recklessly, as it is done by the present regime of Iran, it will backfire and would result in the suppression of Shias in different countries.

30% of Iranian population is Sunni. Eight of its provinces are dominated by the Sunnis. Yet there has not been even single minister, army general, ambassador or a top official in the last 28 years in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The situation is clear. There is no the idea of equal rights in the minds of the Shia population of Iran and specifically the rulers of Iran. The other amazing thing is the complete silence of the ordinary Shia people over the suppression of the Sunnis. Even more amazing is the complete silence of the Iranian politicians, intellectuals, journalists and political activists over the total exclusion of Sunnis from all sources of power. The systematic discrimination that has been carried out against the Sunnis of Iran has not been criticised by any Iranian Shia politician. It seems that there is a total consensus among all Shia groups of Iran about the exclusion of Sunnis from all sources and centres of political and economic powers while all of them collectively protest strongly against the discrimination carried out against the Shias in Sunni dominated countries.

The Shia groups of different political tendencies have differences but these differences are all about who has the power and who must have it. All governments of Iran have taken over the power with great promises of equality of rights and equality of opportunity but as soon as they got established, they adapted the same old policies of oppression and suppression of different classes and groups and specifically the Sunnis.

Discrimination by Iranian media and journalists against the Sunnis

The Iranian media of the Shia opposition groups follow the same policy of discrimination against Sunnis. They publish everyday hundreds of articles and news on every aspect of life in Iran but they refuse to publish the news of hanging of the Sunnis of Baluchistan by Iranian regime. If a Shia journalist gets arrested, they follow every movement of his family and report every thing about him to maintain his presence in the media. If ten Sunnis get killed in Baluchistan, the opposition media of Iran refuse to publish the news that even have been published by the Iranian regime. The Iranian media publish hundreds of articles about the Shia political prisoners in other countries and refuse to publish any article on the political prisoners of Sunni community of Iran.

Even those security forces of Iran who have defected to the West reveal the secrets of serial killings of the Shia intellectuals and journalists but they refuse to disclose the serial killings of the Sunni leaders and intellectuals. All the Shia politicians and journalists of Iran seem to agree with the present government in its policies of genocide and complete exclusion of the Sunnis.

The same media that applied discrimination against the Sunnis publish widely any news about the persecution of the Shias in the Sunni countries. They report widely the news of Hezbollah and the Shia demonstration in Bahrain. They portray the Hezbollah as the hero of the Arab world and the Shias of Bahrain as the oppressed people who have been persecuted by Bahrain authorities but they refuse to publish the news of executions and persecutions of the Sunnis in Iran.

These are not only the Shias of Iran who have dominated other religions; the Shias of Iraq are perusing the same path. If the Shias in Iraq are not seeking supremacy why did they dissolve the Iraqi army, civil service and Iraqi secret services? If those establishments were allowed to function, today the situation would have been much better. Cleansing the Sunnis from the sensitive cities and areas in Iraq is seeking Shias supremacy. The same could be true about Lebanon. If the Hezbollah is not looking for supremacy why it is seeking the toppling of an elected government which has been elected democratically and freely according to the Lebanese constitution?

It is right for the Hezbollah to have its appropriate share in Lebanese government but it is also the right for the Sunnis in Iran to fight for their fair share of power. The Sunnis of Iraq have the same rights that the Shias have in Iran and Lebanon.

As evidence demonstrates it seems that wherever the Shias are in power the Sunnis are completely excluded. Is there a deep-rooted discriminatory belief in Shia mind?

Reza Hossein Borr is a leadership consultant and the creator of 150 CDs.
He is also the author of Manual Success, Manual of Coaching and Mentoring, Motivational Stories that Can Change Your Life, and a New Vision for the Islamic World. He can be contacted by email: balochfront@aol.com
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