Oslo, June 15, 2007 -- Iranian opposition’s Balochs, Kurds, Arabs and Azeri groups based in Norway met Norwegian Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs this week. The meeting took place at the threshold of upcoming visit of the committee to Iran. The committee has been invited by Iranian Parliament.

The groups accusing Iranian government for depriving them from their basic rights called for international awareness on the issue.

In the meeting, Mr. Ehsan Arjemandi of Greater Balochistan Lebration Organisation (BLO) spoke behalf of other participants. He claimed that today these nations are not allowed to get education in their maternal tong.

He further alleged that none of Iranian political parties has accepted the rights of the ‘’suppressed’’ nations, even Peoples Mujahedin, nor NCR, nor royalists, nor leftists accept these nations’ rights. Iranian government is trying to assimilate other nations. One of the ways they do it is to establish Persian settlements in Kurdistan, Ahwaz, Balochistan and Azerbaijan. Mr. Aref Ahmadi and Mr Salah on behalf of Kurds, Ehsan Arjemandi on the behalf of Balochistan,