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This 12 page paper focuses on this minority in Iran. Information about the Kurds is relayed but there is a focus on the political situation in Iran as well. The past and future of Iran and the Kurds in the region is disused. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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a minority group, it pays to explore what exactly constitutes a minority. Generally, the thing that distinguishes indigenous peoples from national minorities such as the Kurds, is that the latter
are contenders but they have lost in respect to creating their own state (Shojai, 2005). The former had been totally isolated from the process and often support a pre-modern way
of living (2005). National minorities in general want their own states, but they have lost the battle for political muscle (2005). Indigenous people live outside of the purview of the
social system of the state (2005). The Kurds are clearly a minority group that boasts a nation but lives within the confines of several states. The Kurd population
makes up approximately 10% (Kutschera, 2005, 30) of the populous within Iran. As far as who these people are exactly, and what they are like, information comes from obscure sources.
Many of them are underground (2005). While much political information is obscured, there is much known about the Kurds in general. Still, the group is quite political due to the
fact that it is population without a true home. Some Kurds are revolutionary, wanting nothing less that a total split from Iran, but others see federalism as reasonable (2005). They
believe that they can be a nation within a state. Radical groups do not see themselves as being Iranian citizens and they do not want to associate with
those who want to force their subculture on them. Federalism is actually the division of sovereign power among various levels of the government, and is considered to be a method
of stabilizing, or at least rendering decentralized government credible (Kutschera, 2005). The federal solution is however not void of problems and the dilemma attached to federalism is equated with the
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