According to Kurdish media outlets the Iranian army have sent several thousand soldiers to the four Kurdish provinces to curb Kurdish dissent before the Iranian presidential elections this summer.The number of Iranian soldiers stationed in Iranian Kurdistan is believed to be around 125 000, adding revolutionary guard members, Basiji´s and members of the Intelligence [...]
Teachers in most of the Kurdish cities and many Iranian cities are on strike; protesting the regimes policies, the education system, lack of resources and the bad teaching conditions.
Kurdish teachers in the Kurdish city of Mariwan and all of the surrounding villages have refused to open their schools. According to teachers from Iranian Kurdistan [...]
For some, Turkish membership in the EU is of vital importance, others underline that Turkey have a long way to go before fulfilling the membership criteria’s. Large sections of the Turkish population, and all of its political elite, expresses a paranoia towards the Kurds that is not only halting Turkeys development towards EU membership, but [...]
Everyday life in Iranian Kurdistan and Iran is filled with oppression, insult and violence. People from all spheres of life are subjected to the regimes systematic violence and there is no room for any form of dissent. Unfortunately little of the people of Kurdistan´s everyday suffering is mentioned in western media, due to that I [...]
Iran accuses the United States of bombings’ in Iraq and Israel of planning bombings ahead of Iran’s presidential elections. It might seem strange that a regime like Iran puts forward accusations like this at a time when it supports, funds and helps terrorist organisations like Hezbollah, Hamas and all of the groups that want to [...]
France 24 reports:
Living conditions are not ideal for writing articles on the condition of the Kurds, and Syria’s political situation – subjects that the Syrian regime does not appreciate.
Students in Iran: Two aspirations, two voices
The Bush administration, at first, wanted to change the regime in Iran. At the end of Bush’s term in office and after major setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan the Bush administration attempted to engage in diplomatic negotiations with Iran. When Obama came to power, talk about regime change disappeared altogether, instead the new administration focuses [...]
According to a report released by the Swedish Security Service (Säpo), a spy posing as a diplomat has been deported after that Säpo discovered that he had spied on refugees in Sweden.
Säpo do not mention the country involved, but the spy has gathered information on opposition groups by recruiting people who had information about the [...]
My colleague, Sharif Behruz (PDKI representative to the United States), testified before the Canadian House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights about the human rights situation in Iran in general and Iranian Kurdistan in particular. Click here to see the video!
