Conservative MPs within Iran’s Parliament are proposing that Iranians should only be allowed to vote for members of their own religious group.
In Iran, where 90-95% of the population is Shia Muslim, this will essentially mean that it will be impossible for members of religious minorities to be elected.
Mansour Borji, from the advocacy group Article 18, said that the move shows ‘the ruling conservative clerics are concerned about their increasing unpopularity, as they are taking harsher measures to block members of religious minorities from higher office.’
