AZG Armenian Daily #225, 24/11/2006

Diaspora

TENSION IN IRANIAN-ARMENIAN COMMUNITY

The Athens based "Armenia" news informed about an
event that took place quite recently and aroused the
indignation and concern of the Iranian-Armenian
community members.

In accordance with March 9 2005 decision, the Islamic
Parliament of Iran allocated about 17 billion 500
million reals from the state budget for the
constitutionally recognized national and religious
minorities for their sports, cultural and mass media
activities. Teheran’s Armenian community received 4
billion 700 million reals (about USD 535.000). The sum
was handed to Mr. Gevorg Vardan deputy of the Northern
Iranian Armenians at the parliament. The letter gave
the state allocations only to the structures that
belonged to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
Thus, the financial allocations meant for the whole
Armenian community of Tehran went only to the Dashnak
structures and organizations.