Yesterday I held a lecture about the Iranian Kurdistan for members of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth (SSU) in Stockholm. SSU is currently organizing a series of lectures about the different parts of Kurdistan and I was invited to speak about the Kurds in Iran – with focus on methods of struggle, future opportunities and [...]
The Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran held its annual meeting in Stockholm on the 4th and 5th of December in Stockholm. Currently, 16 political organizations from Iran’s major nationalities (Ahwazi Arabs, Balouch, Kurds, Azeri Turks, Turkoman and Bahkhtyari/Lor) are members of the Congress.
The congress seeks to attain national rights for Iran’s different nationalities [...]
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 [...]
According to information from the Kurdish city of Urmye, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Mohammed Ali Jafari, will attend different meetings with Kurdish tribal leaders.
The Revolutionary Guard commander is according to several sources going to offer the tribal leaders different kinds of incentives if they accept to carry arms for the regime and patrol [...]
I receive different questions about a vide range of issues related to the situation in the Middle East on a daily basis via emails, phone calls and in discussion with people in different meetings. I will from now on answer some of those questions here on the blog. If you have any questions you would [...]
On Sunday an explosion killed at least 41 people, including seven senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps in Baluchistan. Officially the regime has stated that the commanders were visiting the region to promote better relationship between the Shia and Sunni Muslim communities.
But according to different sources in Baluchistan, the real reason for the [...]
New York Times:
At least five commanders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed and dozens of others left dead and injured in two terrorist bombings in the restive region of the nation’s southeastern frontier with Pakistan, according to multiple Iranian state news agencies.
