| | The State Department, September 28, 2018</ref> Ethnic minorities are also persecuted by the racist Iranian regime,<ref>[https://www.arabnews.com/node/1822151/middle-east No country for minorities: The agony of Iran’s ethnic Arabs, Kurds, Balochis and Azeris], O. Shahbandar, Arab News, March 8, 2021. | | The State Department, September 28, 2018</ref> Ethnic minorities are also persecuted by the racist Iranian regime,<ref>[https://www.arabnews.com/node/1822151/middle-east No country for minorities: The agony of Iran’s ethnic Arabs, Kurds, Balochis and Azeris], O. Shahbandar, Arab News, March 8, 2021. |
| | ''Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Balochis have faced particularly harsh crackdowns by regime security forces.'' </ref> such as Ahwazi Arabs, Kurds, Azeris and Baloch. | | ''Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Balochis have faced particularly harsh crackdowns by regime security forces.'' </ref> such as Ahwazi Arabs, Kurds, Azeris and Baloch. |
| | + | <ref>[https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2020/12/how-yasir-arafat-drove-christians-from-bethlehem/ How Yasir Arafat Drove Christians from Bethlehem] D. Weinberg, Mosaic Mag., Dec. 28, 2020. |
| | + | <blockquote>It also highlights how states, and state-sponsored social media, incite hatred and publish propaganda against Christians, especially in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey.</blockquote></ref> |