Political Regionalism in Iran: the Case of Iranian Baluchestan

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Every region is a geographical realm with its biological and geographical functions that differentiated with the proximity ones. While the states are all heterogeneous, so could be divided in cultural regions. Government as a formal branch of state is searching for shaping and empowering the national identity by putting weight on subjective and objective common - sense in its regions. InIranas a heterogeneous country with a complicated long –life history, there are many regions that maintenance their ad hoc cultural characteristics in the whole common Iranian identity and culture. So in this respect, national and regional security is vulnerable by these particularities of any region. The balouchestan ofIranconcerns with the same situation by different religious belief and geographical distance from the central government. So for reducing any unrest in this cultural region, the paper recommends to engage the balouchestan in the national development and political participation in the national level and to be free in their religious ceremony in the local level.

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