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It has been a language of oppression and assimilation.

And there are many regions in Iran that were, for example, if I want to talk about Kurdistan, there are many regions in Kermanshah and Elam provinces and other regions that used to be fully Kurdish.

And they used to speak Kurdish just a few decades ago, but now they are completely assimilated.

The same policy was also followed strictly.

but heavily in Turkey and also in Iraq and also in Syria.

So this is how this has been working in the past century and how all these ethnic groups with different languages and cultural backgrounds and identities have been forced to accept and embrace

Iranian identity that evolves, that turns around the Persian identity and Persian language and history.

Yeah, so this is also like a general overview of the oppression, if I want to...

So here in these days, or basically in the past decades, the main demand of people, all different ethnic groups in the geography of Iran has always been a regime change.

They want this regime gone.

This is the first thing that everybody wants.

At the same time, there are other possibilities that could be there.

One of the things that when you look at these ethnic groups and their organizations and the people, you can see that also most of them want some sort of federalism or nationalism.

autonomy or self-governance at the same time this idea of federalism and self-governance or self-determination is nothing that let's say that the dominant group would accept because they don't understand it because for them i wouldn't say all of them because i cannot

We cannot generalize everyone.

But when you look at it, the dominant group sees Iran as an entity that's not diverse.

It's just Iran and everybody's Iranian, just like the way Turkey or the Turkish government sees everything.

Everybody's Turkish.

But in Iran, they also say everybody's Iranian.

We will have an election.