The Baluch intellectual did not create the Nationalism in Baluchistan

What the Baluch demand from the Persian occupiers inside Baluchistan is to stop the colonisation, assimilation, of the Baluch in Baluchistan. Because their alien settlement in Baluchistan and assimilation policies are costly in term of blood and money on both side.

The modern Iran is a state created by the Shiite, for the Shiite, they are obsessed with the Persian history of distant past and claim to Persian myth. A small Shiite elite in Tehran decide for all Iranian. This Shiite elite failed to create free market economy and free mark of ideals.

The Shiite sect of Islam is the core glue that unite the Persian Shiite with non-Persian Shiite. The Shiite is the State religion and Persian is the State language and otherness is condemned. The state security, trade, bureaucracy controlled by Shiite, Persian dominated elite in Tehran.

There is a lack of common interest between the Persian, Baluch and Shiite and Sunni in Baluchistan. The state authority they imposed on the Baluch from Tehran has never been effective. The point which the Persian Shiite elite failed to understand or unwilling to accept is that the outsiders always resisted.

A respect for an alien cannot be guaranteed; even if one reduce the Area of disrespect it encounter. Tehran cannot impose loyalty upon the Baluch because the Persian conquered Baluchistan in 1928 and annexed Baluchistan into the Persia and the state authorities imposed upon the Baluch.

The Baluch sense is that they are understanding themselves not in unity with the Iranian but in division and uniqueness as a nation that do not share anything with the rest of Iranian population.

In the modern Iran, (for nearly 100 years), by liberty the Persian Shiite means initiative for Shiite and Persian not for all Iranian. By equality they means that only Shiite and Persian shall win such significance as it entitled by religion. The Baluch in Iranian occupied Baluchistan live as the servant of others.

Some groups among the Baluch have been arguing for self-rules and decentralisation of power in Iran. But majority of the Baluch believe that the Shiite Persian are not wise enough and experienced enough to rule over the secular minded Baluch in the western Baluchistan. It is the time for international community to recognise Baluchistan as an occupied land and respect the rights of National self-determination for the Baluch nation.

The most progressive people are those who capable of state building; because the state express people will to survive. People without state cannot contribute to the development of civilization and they would soon cease to be people. If the Baluch could not acquire a state of their own over course of time they will never be able to continue as a nation.

It is not realistic to maintain that Persian would be capable to absorb large non Persian (Turk Shiite, Arab Shiite, Kurd 70percent Sunni, Baluch 98 percent Sunni) national existence, they would become Persian or reduce their existences into unimportant.

The Baluch intellectual did not create the Nationalism in Baluchistan. By contrast, (Baluch, Arab, Turk, Kurd), nationalism have been phenomenon force in Iran. These nations inside Iran have their own cultural, linguistic boundaries, historical claim to the land they are residing, they are calling it home and they are ready to defend the home with all means from internal as well as external colonisation, their narratives are different from the state narrative. They are continuously supressed by Tehran’s totalitarian regime and Shiite Mullahs, communist and Persian centralist parties.

The Persian dominated opposition parties define democracy very narrowly to suit their need. They are rejecting the democratic principle of personal autonomy and right to self-determination for individual and groups. They have little time for democracy, rule of law and property rights. They seize land as they please and exploited resources from other people property as their predecessor have done.  

The Persian opposition are seeking to change mullah-cracy without sharing the privileges they have enjoyed through history. The totalitarianism and Shiite dominated politic is ingrained in the Iranian politic. The regime change will not bring the peace within Iran or the wide Middle East.

For a peace to prevail in the Middle East and the Persian to survival as a nation the world should recognise the Baluch and others rights to national self-determination and force Iran to recognise the Baluch, Arab, Kurd, Turk historical right to statehood.

The Persian dominated opposition alone would not succeed to bring about a regime change in Iran, by trying new route and risky bypass. Attempting to do so will only result in xenophobia. It is politically possible to denounce the Baluch and others Iranian nations, but the sequences of this manoeuvre should not be underrated. The Baluch right to independent Baluchistan is an historic fact. There is no reason to why the Baluch as a nation should be denied the state of their own.

Mehrab. D. Sarjov is a Baluch political activist based in London campaign for an independent Baluchistan and Human rights.