Minorities in Iran: Nationalism and Ethnicity after Khomeini is a 2014 book by Rasmus Christian Elling in which the author examines inter-ethnic tension and the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran. Reception. The book has been reviewed in the "SCTIW review" by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, in the "International Journal of Middle East Studies " by Saghar Sadeghian, in the "British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies" by Maziyar Ghiabi, in "Iranian Studies" by Alam Saleh, and in the "Journal of the Middle East and Africa" by Philip Carl Salzman. Saleh posed some questions to Elling after providing a short review of the book and in turn received some questions from Elling about his own book "Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran".