• Mr. Pouria AMIRSHAHI, Member of the French Parliament, National Secretary for International Cooperation and Human Rights of the Socialist Party.

IRANIAN SOCIETY TODAY

Moderator :Mr. Hamit BOZARSLAN, Research director at the EHESS, Paris

Speakers :

• Mr. Hashem AHMADZADEH, associate lecturer of Middle East Studies, Exeter University, Great Britain
  « The ethnic challenges of the Iranian political system »
• Mr. Stéphane DUDOIGNON, research worker at the CNRS
  « Iran's relations with its Eastern borders »
• Mrs. Marie LADIER, research worker at the CNRS
  « Iran's political situation since the fraudulent re-election of Mr. Ahmedinjad in 2009 »
• Mr. Gilles RIAUX, research worker at the IRSEM
  « The reconfiguring of relations between the centre and the periphery under the Islamic Republic »
• Mr. Nuri YEŞİLYURT, Ankara University, Political Science
  « The evolution of Turco-Iranian relations before and after the Arab Springs »

THE QUESTION OF THE NON-PERSIAN PEOPLES

Moderator :Mr. Kendal NEZAN, president of the Paris Kurdish Institute

Speakers :

• Mr. Karim ABDIAN, Democratic Solidarity Party of the Al-Ahwaz
• Mr. Yussef AZIZI, former lecturer at Teheran University
• Mr. Nasser BOLADEI, First Secretary of the Baluchi People's Party
• Mr. Mostafa HEJRI, General Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
• Mr. Mohammmad NAZARI, Organization in Defence of the Turkmen People Rights
• Mr. Hedayat SOLTANZADEH, member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Federal Movement of Azerbaijan