Racism in Iran

Racism in Iran encompasses various manifestations of racism between the inhabitants of the country. A UN panel in 2019 said "Arabs, Kurds, and other minorities in Iran face discrimination because of their ethnicity." In 2010, The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) of the UN urged Iran to tackle racism against Arab, Azeri, Balochi, and Kurdish communities and some communities of non-citizens. Iran has been found by groups like CERD, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International to be marginalizing and discriminating against people of non-Persian ethnicity via government crackdowns on dissent and hampering access to health and housing services, with ethnic Persians dominating the central government of Iran.

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