RASC News Agency: Dr. Abdullah Rahnuma, a senior researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies in Tajikistan, has recently highlighted that extremist groups represent the most significant threat to the Persian language. Rahnuma conveyed these insights on Tuesday, November 28, during the second day of the Herat Security Conference, themed “Nouruzistan: The Persian World, Comprehensive Neighbors.” He identifies extremist groups and ideological extremism as the primary threats to Iran-Shahr and the Persian language. Rahnuma, alluding to the recent meeting between Taliban officials and Iran in Tehran, mentioned that the Taliban group brings its translators to comprehend the Persian language in Iran.
Conversely, Dr. Javid Ahour, a Ph.D. graduate from Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, articulated in the conference, “We must distance ourselves from nationalistic sentiments and political biases and endeavor to connect Iran-Shahr-Kabul and Tehran with Delhi and Peshawar.” Dr. Habibullah Fazeli, a lecturer at the University of Tehran, supplemented, “When we mention Iran-Shahr, we do not refer to the contemporary political Iran but rather to the geography of the Persian language, just as we do not have an ethnic group called Fars but a language known as Persian.”
It is noteworthy that the eleventh iteration of the Herat Security Conference, attended by numerous experts and policymakers from various countries, commenced in Tajikistan on Monday and is slated to conclude on Today. Meanwhile, following the Taliban’s assumption of control in Afghanistan, the group has immersed itself in Persian-centric activities, occasionally deeming Persian words as foreign in the Afghanistan context.
