The Middle East Institute hosted Carol Prunhuber, my colleague Sharif Behruz who works as the PDKI’s U.S. representative and my brother Idris Ahmedi to speak about the political, social and human rights status of Iran’s Kurds Below you can watch videos from the discussion.
At the same time as the Islamic Republic of Iran sends millions of dollars to extremist Arab organizations in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq the Arab population of Ahwaz in Iran suffers extreme poverty and discrimination.
The Islamic Republic of Iran portrays its self as the champion of Arab rights in all of the above-mentioned countries, [...]
According to Iran’s penal code an individual that is convicted of conducting “Mohareb”, (which means waging war) against God should be executed. The regime in Iran has used this notion of “Enemy of God” to crack down on all forms of dissident since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
It began when Ayatollah Khomeini [...]
Iran’s selected president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, is currently in Afghanistan to meet with Afghan president Hamid Karzai. During a press conference yesterday Ahmedinejad claimed that the United States has created the terrorists in Afghanistan.
It has been evident for years now that Iran supports different armed groups in Afghanistan. Iran even supports its former archenemy, the Taliban’s. [...]
On Sunday Iraqis voted in the country’s parliamentary election and according to early reports no party, or blocs of parties, managed to win enough votes to be able to form a single-majority government.
The election process has been hailed as relatively democratic, despite evidence of fraud (tens of thousands of Kurds was according to reports denied [...]
It seems that no one in the West knows what to with Iran. The Obama administration and its allies are grasping for any solution, even if the solution would lead to other problems. Pundits and self-described experts on Iran are proposing everything from sanctions, military attacks and unconditional engagement to ignoring Iran.
The Obama administration’s Iran [...]
The Middle East Institute will host Carol Prunhuber, my colleague Sharif Behruz who works as the PDKI’s U.S. representative and my brother Idris Ahmedi for a lecture about the political, social and human rights status of Iran’s Kurds
Read more on the MEI’s website – Prunhuber will speak about Kurd leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou whose untimely [...]
The Islamic Republic of Iran falsely claims that its security forces have arrested three members of our party, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, in the Kurdish cities of Sardasht and (Xane) Piranshar.
Our party has made it clear in a statement yesterday that none of our members have been arrested in Sardasht or Piranshar.
Our party [...]
After listening to Hillary Clinton talking about how Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is “supplanting” the government of Iran one really becomes bewildered by the United States Iran-policy.
Apparently, the US believes that the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad are powerless figures, who are being controlled by the Revolutionary Guard. It seems that the fact that [...]
Read: In August 1979, seven months after the ouster of the shah, the euphoria of revolution had given way to the realities of Islamic fundamentalism — black chadors, broken wine bottles, censorship, public executions. Protests in Tehran were drawing enormous crowds, while in Kurdistan, separatists were demanding an independent Kurdish state. On Aug. 16, Ayatollah [...]
