Published May 24th, 2006 by Future Atlas
Iran: ethnic disturbances
Riots in the Azeri portion of Iran lend credence to scenarios of ethnic separatism.
A cartoon mocking the Turkic Azeris “set off some of the worst ethnic protests in northwestern Iran since the revolution in 1979.”
The NYT also notes that “other ethnic minorities, including Arabs, Kurds and Baluchis, have staged protests in the past year as political dissent in the nation has risen.”