Persia emerged as state and its people set off against their neighbours by a widely shared Shiite religious identity.

The Safavid movement gained widespread support, especially among the non dominant Turkic tribes in the region for opposition to the caliph and Sunni religion and it promotion of a militant Shiite religious doctrine.

In 1501 Ismail, leader of the movement declared himself Shah of Persia, Founding the dynasty that ended by Afghan and Baluch tribes in 1722. During the reign of shah Abbas the first 1588-1629 the shah ruled in absolutist fashion, the king was regarded as the shadow of God, Shiite was declared the state religion and forcibly imposed upon the people who until that time adhered to variety of Sunni, Shiite, Sufi belifs.

There were traditions and resources available for the creation of absolutist state of Persia. It was the achievement of the Safavid to promote this process of state building in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Persia emerged as state and its people set off against their neighbours by a widely shared Shiite religious identity. Safavid ruled over a territory over which they claimed absolute domination and their claims were legitimised by Shiite. The king’s control over the religion institutions was extended while the power of rival tribes reduced.

The tribal Qajar were not in position to reduce the role of the tribes in Persia.  Reza Shah brought to power with the help of the British in the early 1920s. Reza shah was able to create a relatively powerful state with a modern army and relatively effective bureaucracy.

In much of his brutality against his adversary, he created a modern national- state out of culturally politically, linguistically fragment nations. Toward the national building he discouraged in some cases banned the use of non Persian languages, closing non Persian schools and publishing houses. He had the resources of modern propaganda to revive and invent pre-Islamic heritage for the purposes of national building.

Iranian dictatorship has the appearance of pre-modern dictator more unpredictable than any other autocratic regime in the region. State authority’s power is arbitrary and unconstrained, a threat to property and security of Baluch. Iranian see themselves as occupying power, they have regarded Baluchistan a property to be exploited not a country to be improved.

Baluchistan came in their possession by conquest in 1927, Iranian treat Baluch and none Shiite like the conquered nations; their only concern is how to exploit their resources. The Shiite revolutionary regime has revived Safavid shi’ism and imposing Shiite religious on the Baluchistan. 

M.Sarjov