17th Session of the human rights in UN-Geneva June 9th 2011 Südwind Ladies and Gentlemen, Defender of human rights of Religious Minorities, Before I start with my report, I would like have you to pay attention to some term, I am going to use:

1. Yarsan: is a group of people that mostly live in west of Iran they are Kurdish, believer in re-incarnation. Also we use Yarsan as a religion.

2. Yarsani or Yarsanian is a person that belongs to Yarsan community or has the Yarsan religion.

As you aware of recent changes in Arab World, particularly with the way of reflecting all these in the media, brought fear and phobia into the Islamic Republic of Iran. This regime thinks with terror and pressures on the people are able to continue the ruling and governing the country, as they did in the last 32 years.

The Iranian regime, tries to cover all what you as Defender of Human Rights and the rights of Religious Minorities revealed about the crime to majority of publication, including all the action against political, ethnical and religious oppositions. This publication and the opposition is become quite dangerous with high risk to Islamic Republic of Iran.

Therefore they mobilized themselves with all their power to fencing their Politics to show the world that the Islamic Republic of Iran is Human Rights supporter. For proofing it, they sent several (unqualified) agents who used to carry out the orders and obey the regime.

As matter of fact, we have been informed (realize) from some of their own representatives all the agents who presented this regime in Geneva in the 16th conference of the UN, receive each $200.00 per day travel expanses plus having luxury hotels and some extra tips for their family. In mentioned special date, the regime started a game with their own people and somehow to the world. They let out these agents on the street to join those on the front line along with demonstrators on the street with let them crying against the regime. With this, the regime takes picture of people who are protesting for human rights and injustice in Iran. By doing this action, their spies are among the demonstrators to collect information for proofing someone to bring him/her to dead or put them in jail and in some cases someone will be scarified in other word will be killed by unknown accident on the street.

Awkward thing (Hess lichen dinge) is some of their “Muslim” speaker are not religious, but they advocacy (defend) Islamic Republic, because of receiving benefits from them.

No wonder, if the Islamic regime in Iran tries hard to monitor the political oppositions and the followers. The evidence of fact for these is arresting the lawyers of some religious leaders plus deprivation of their job for several years.

Human Rights Supporters, defenders of freedom for ethnic, individual and collective,

This regime did wanted and still willing to neutralize your entire announcement and cover your messages instead to deliver them to Iranian. If you take a moment participating one of the social networking group like Pal talk that have massive audiences, you will see the regime agents there. They participate in discussion advocating the regime in all the ways. In such pal talk room someone asked one of this regime’s fan who was well known with Islamic religion, why you build mosque in Yarsan’s holly places instead their own worship room, Jamkhaneh? If they are not able to build up mosque in every single Yarsani’s town and area, they send a pursuivant to the Yarsan’s worship places? The informed person impolitely said: ”This is clear to me for controlling and monitoring the people what they are saying while they are praying. They might have conspiracy to the government.” He added rudely if you were in power didn’t you do that? I assure you, you did the same thing! That was the answer of the regime’s agent, easily talked without observing any Principe.

According to the recent report from Iran to Cultural Association of Yarsan in Aboard and Democratic Movement of Yarsan offices, if in Iran someone talked to a Yarsani person, who is the members of Yarsan religion, must be monitored and controlled. If a Yarsani person want apply for a job, directly will be questioning if he is a Muslim then maybe will be accepted, depend on how much he/she do the Muslim’s pray (Namaz). That is why if a Yarsani person in case is hired by a governmental offices, first he/she had to lie to his/her-self, second any time they find out he was not Muslim at the start, he will be fired right away. If we do not receive from Yarsan Community from Iran, does not mean, everything is going well. It is other way around, it means the suppress and crack downing is so hard that can’t come out any news. The method of repress the people like Baha’i is applied even harder to Yarsan community in Iran since we do not have any representative in UN. The reason should be clear to everyone, In Quran we are not accepted that is why we don’t allow talk about our religious and us as Yarsani believer.

Therefore the Yarsani, who defend their own, believes and do not want to lie, has no chance to be employed. If one or more Yarsani passed all dangerous ways and become a person with having a governmental Job, certainly he/she will be quite and says nothing about the happening, because they do not want to lose their Job. This is one side of the Problem, the other side is the suppressing the families of the political and religious victims, and force them not saying anything about the matters and do not organized the public mourning for the relative who has been killed. For these reason we have not received in last 3 Months any information about the religious victims. So we can realize, that it does not mean that the Islamic regime tolerate to the oppositions or religious minorities, it is absolutely not. This regime based their rule on force and threat. They do not know other way of ruling, they only know how to suppress, to arrest, tortures, execute and to kill the opposition. There is no doubt that the Yarsani people would be suppressed as Baha’is.

We hear every day from the arresting and suppressing the Baha’is all over in the country but maybe not hear much about Yarsani blievers. There are differentiations in term of reflecting the news between the Baha’is and Yarsani and other things. The Baha’is mostly lives in the big cities and they have more educated missionaries. But the Yarsanis are poor in this area living in the villages and impoverished areas. One another differentiation is that the Baha’is originally was a part of Schism and in 19th century they separate their way. But the Yarsan is originally Kurdish religion and they are the people, who have resisted against Islam more than 400 years. People for having negative opinion (energy) to Islam or as symbol of resisting against Islam, they created their own believes written their orison (prayer) on the paper. This religion, as mentioned, has Kurdish origin, for this reason that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not have any trust to Kurds, this religion is dangerous or is hazardous to the regime.

At the time in Kurdish and Azeri cities, the Yarsanian folks protest for their very initial rights like keeping their own belief which is something differencing than Islam, they will be hardly monitored and controlled. If some of Yarsanian with tricks got some jobs, forefingers go to them to be unemployed or layout from the job. If some self-employment or unemployed Yarsanian people say or talk about the community problem even with smart way so that the regime can’t have any excuse to arrest them; however, the regime repression and crack down any movement from Yarsan Community. Based on the words came from the inside of Iran, right from the community the control and monitoring is so harsh that life for Yarsanian people is made impossible. For instance, stop Yaranian going worship, not letting run the special events, or preventing of any accumulation more than 3 Yarsani by threat of their family members afterward to force them stay in silent.

Anyhow, those Yarsani believers, who have their own job as self-employee or they are unemployed, they do not have much fear or anxiety to lose an opportunity by government; however, if they are informed about their religion, they try to demand their cultural and religious rights with keeping it separated away from of any political parties and try to inform the public that they only wants to have their rights as normal civic person, according to (in frame of) the country´s Law.

Since the Yarsani Believers do not give the definitely any contact to political and religious party so that the regime has a reason or chance to act against them.

Furthemore, all the Yarsanian worship, and Yarsani’s tombs went to controls under finincial endwonment power by government so that the regime be able to propertize it by themselves. As well, after that they destroy the historical places by the name reconstruction. Right on this places, as mentioned it before, they build a musque. They are using the weekness of the local people, which is being poor. I can say they buy somehow the people. The regime tried hard to prevent people, particularly the youths not to go to their own worship (Jamkhaneh) in ohter hand, encorrage the youths after highschool graduation to go the musque; ohterwise, no chance to continue education on uinversity or getting a job. We annunced these in our previous report with few examples. That is why one after each other, all Yarsanian people leave the coutery.

 

Heidelberg, June 3rd. 2011 Dr. Golmorad Morad

 

 

‌ • Writer:Dr. Golmorad Moradi