Thousands of Iranians from the Bakhtiari tribes have staged a mass
protest in the southern city of Dezful in anger at a TV series broadcast
on a state-run network that they say is racist and insulting to their
people.
The series entitled 'The Old Land' is a history of Iran from the 1940s to the mullahs seizing power in Iran in 1978. But the Bakhtiari claim it distorts historical facts about their tribes.
In Dezful, protesters waved banners reading, 'We are original Iranians and we do not accept humiliation', while 600 city residents also gathered to call for the resignation of the head of state-run TV and radio network.
The Bakhtiari are a south-western Lurish tribe, who speak the south-western Bakhtiari dialect, belonging to the Luri language. They played a key role in the advent of the country's Constitutional Revolution from 1905 to 1907.
The series entitled 'The Old Land' is a history of Iran from the 1940s to the mullahs seizing power in Iran in 1978. But the Bakhtiari claim it distorts historical facts about their tribes.
In Dezful, protesters waved banners reading, 'We are original Iranians and we do not accept humiliation', while 600 city residents also gathered to call for the resignation of the head of state-run TV and radio network.
The Bakhtiari are a south-western Lurish tribe, who speak the south-western Bakhtiari dialect, belonging to the Luri language. They played a key role in the advent of the country's Constitutional Revolution from 1905 to 1907.
