Motazeri issues a Fatwa and urges the Kurdish people to demand their rights
Grand Ayatollah Hosein-Ali Motazeri, who is linked to the reformist faction of the Islamic Republic, issued a religious Fatwa in which he writs that Iran’s ethnic minorities must be allowed to study their mother tongue in schools.
And in another statement Motazeri also urges Iran’s different ethnic groups, in particular the Azeri and Kurdish nations, to demand their rights within the framework of the Islamic Republics constitution.
In the statement he says that, “according to paragraph 15 and 19 of Iran’s constitution, alongside the Persians all other ethnic groups [Kurds, Arabs, Azeris, Baloch and so on] have been granted their full rights” in regard to language and culture.
Motazari, who was the deputy of Ayatollah Khomeini, until a dispute between them led to Motazari being sidelined and eventually forced out of Iran’s power elite, have recently resurfaced as a spiritual symbol of the reformist movement.
His latest statement and the Fatwa he released are perceived as an attempt by the reformist faction of the Islamic Republic to try to rally the support of Iran’s different nations.
The reformist faction, and the Green Movement, is feeling more desperate due to the fact that their protests and demonstrations against the conservative faction, led by Ayatollah Khamenei and Ahmedinejad, have not gone outside of Tehran and other cities that are dominated by the Persians.
These attempts will fail as long as these people emphasize on preserving the Islamic Republic and its constitution. As I have written so many times before, the Kurdish people will not become pawns of any faction of the Islamic Republic. There is a need for real change and the front figures of the reformist faction will not be the ones that will bring about the necessary changes.
