Iran has been not so much a nation state as a state made up of different nationalities. Although Persian, an Indo-European language, is the most widely used throughout the country, population. provinces lve live immon auras, wao form one part of a distinct nationality which stretches into USSR, Iraq and Syria. In Iran, the Kurds form as much as one sixth of the population.
An even larger percentage of the population made up speaking Turkic. Neighbours of the Kurds in the north are the Azeris, of whom about ten million concentrated in the Azerbaijan. The Turkomenis, Socialist Challenge 4 October 1979 Page 12 cannot be regarded ethnic stock.
The relationship tbe Pahlavi uneasy one. weak Qajar western country had reached in 1921.
Turkey, the of of those and weight of Americro weight are behind the Pahlavi state. provinces of 1 foreign LIVEOLLICUL.
LAST WEEK a senior member of the Zambian government told a visiting of Commonwealth politicians that the people of Zambia were fed up with bearing the costs of the war Zimbabwe. The Front should hurry up and reach a SOLC ICIN that situation in southern Africa could get This cynical view shows the sort of I'M WORRIED ABOUT KITH AND KIN IN Patriotic By SORROM EREIE, Policat Fitl CULuL, CERTAIN ELEMENTS ATES PREPARA TIR They force Nkomo and Co IT WOULD BE A SAT DANTE POPULATO SACKITILA» Ww Sl' SADDER - MICH SADDERSie enseta ti te ALTAR OF EtL. Ett find it difficult to withdraw them.
And practice? Most critical observers of the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia April agree that coercion did not take the form of military repression but of the equally powerful that white farmers and industrialists can exert over their this must now be added the influence that a black neo-colonial government can exert over those who depend on it for a living.
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