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This article focuses on '''ethnic minorities in Iran''' and their political issues and current realities.

== Overview ==
] is an ethnically diverse state. The major ethno-linguistic groups include the ], ], ], ], ], ]s, ]s, ]s, ], ], ], ] as well as others. While many of these groups are urbanized and often mixing together, particularly in larger cities, some continue functioning as rural ].

Many of these ethnic groups have their own ]s, ]s, and often ]. Their differences occasionally emerge as political ambitions. Some of these groups are also ].

One of the major internal policy challenges during the centuries up until now for most or all Iranian governments has been to find the appropriate and balanced approach to the difficulties and opportunities caused by this diversity, particularly as this internal diversity has often been readily utilized by foreign powers.

== Current Policy ==

The current governmental policy can be characterised by a mixture of celebrating and furthering cultural diversity under a joint Iranian national umbrella, while holding down (occasionally violently) political ]. Some ethnic minorities have reported racial or ].

Many Iranian provinces have ] and ] stations in local language or dialect. School education is in ], the Iranian ], but use of ]s is allowed under the ].

Many members of ethnic minorities have made a successful political career. Most provincial governors and many members of the local ruling classes and clergy are members of the relevant ethnic groups. Many, if not most, members of the national cultural and political elite have mixed roots.

Separatist tendencies, led by the ] or ] in ], for example, had led to frequent unrest and occasional military crackdown in the past. Similar tendencies, though on a smaller scale, in other provinces such as ], ] and ] required occasionally suppression by police and other security measures.

== Historical Notes ==

Iran (then called ]) traditionally was governed over the last few centuries in a fairly decentralised way with much regional and local autonomy. In particular, weaker members of the ] often did not rule much beyond the capital ], a fact exploited by the imperial powers ] and ] in the ].

], and to a lesser degree his son ], successfully strengthened the central government by using reforms, bribes and suppressions. The ]s, ], ], and until the late ], also some of the ] speaking Azeri regions required persistent military measures to keep them under governmental control.

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