In his most recent interview, Mustafa Hijri, the leader of PDKI, says that although there are people who want reform in Iran, the theocratic system of government is antithetical to genuine reform.
He thinks one should make a distinction between the demonstrators, who want fundamental change, and Mousavi and other leaders of the Green Movement. Hijri [...]
I will update the blog in a couple of days, until then I wish you all a Merry Christmas with a beautiful picture of the Kurdish Town of Paveh.
In an officials statement on the passing away of Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan sends its condolences to Montazeri’s family and his supporters. A part of the statement reads as follows:
“Despite the fact that Montazeri was one of the founders of the regime and worked within the framework of the [...]
Yesterday at 10.00 hours a new Platoon of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces graduated from the PDKI:s Ferge Academy in Kurdistan.
I am going to answer some frequently asked questions about whether our party has any relationship with Israel and our position on armed struggle.
Regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict. Our party has traditionally supported the Palestinian peoples right to self-determination and we believe that a two-state-solution would bring about the end to some of the political and [...]
According to information from the Kurdish village of Deolan residents of the village clashed with 300 Revolutionary Guard soldiers after that the soldiers had entered the village to confiscate privately owned land.
More than 30 residents, some of them women and elderly, of Deolan were injured during the clash and five individuals were arrested.
A Kurdish youth by the name of Massoud was arrested three days ago in the Kurdish city of Paveh for handing out leaflets to mark the Kurdistan Peshmerga Day.
Massoud was tortured severely during the three days he was imprisoned, he lost several of his teeth’s and have three broken bones in his body. He [...]
Read: Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, official media reported on Sunday. He was 87. He had been named to succeed late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Iran’s supreme leader, but quarreled with him in 1989 over the mass execution of prisoners. Instead, the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, succeeded Khomeini after [...]
A notorious agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the name of Mohammed Qaramani was shot dead outside a teahouse in the Town of Dze, which is located in the Mergawar district of Urmye.
Qaramani worked for all of Iran’s different security and paramilitary forces, like the Revolutionary Guard, the Basij and the Itlaat. [...]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard killed a Kurdish man by the name of Mohammed Rostami and injured another man by the name of Jafar Amini in the Kurdish city of Bokan yesterday.
The Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a vehicle on the main road between the city of Bokan and Saghez that was carrying the two men. [...]
