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Article: IRAN: SUNNIS WANT THEIR RIGHTS, AS WELL AS CABINET SEATS.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- July 31, 2001
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Parliamentarians have renewed demands for recognition of the rights of Sunni Muslims, who make up 10 percent of the population and are mostly from the Baluchi, Kurdish, or Turkmen minorities. Eighty-nine percent of the Iranian population is Shia and Shia Islam is recognized as the state religion. About 78 members of parliament called on President Mohammad Khatami to select some Sunnis as members of the new cabinet that he is expected to name after his inauguration, "Iran" reported on 16 July. Six days earlier, Mahabad representative Rahman Behmanesh said that Khatami should select more Kurds for positions in his government. Behmanesh also said: "We call on our Supreme ...
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