The Persian elites have been trying to stifle the Baluch sense of nationality

Since the invasion and annexation of western Baluchistan by the Persian forces in 1927, the Persian elites have been trying to stifle the Baluch sense of nationality. The Persian desire for integration is the assimilation of the Baluch into Persian.

It has been argued that religion and language take their meaning from different situations. The groups which focus on religious identity have different demand and challenges than those whose focus is a national liberation; the religion and federalism shape peoples differently, in precise, the religion focus' around Ummah of Islam and federalism focus on the decentralised State and they stifle the rise of the national aspiration.

The Religious political parties, as well as federalist, have limited demands for home rules from the centralised state their demand cover aspects of religious and culture they are aiming to adjust to the Persian dominated Iran by encouraging their members to participate in the social and political life of the state.

The division of Baluchistan and expansions of the Persian culture, language into the Iranian occupied Baluchistan has muffled the Baluch expression of the ethnic ties for the much of the last half-century.

Similarly division of Baluchistan between States and administrative divisions within states, dictatorships and religious rules have prolonged the political division in the Baluch speaking land.

On the other hand, the demand for an independent Baluchistan is a legitimate and classical goal for national self-determination. The Baluch aim in Iranian occupied Baluchistan is to secede from Iran and form a secular, democratic and sovereign state with no connection with Iran and others.

Mehrab. Sarjov is a political activist based in London and campaign for an independent Baluchistan from Iran.