Category: FlashBack

Foreign Policy: Iran’s Kurdish Question

“No dictatorship can last forever,” he went on. “There was a time when the demise of the Baath regime seemed impossible. … I am sure that there will be a day when the Iranian people will be free of dictatorship and achieve liberty.”

Tuesday May 18th, 2010 in FlashBack, News | No Comments »

Looking Back at the Mykonos Trial

This article was written on the 10th anniversary of Mykonos Verdict where a highest German court found top Iranian officials including then the President of the Islamic regime of Iran, Rafasnajani (CNN: German court implicates Iran leaders in ‘92 killings)responsible for the death of Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi the leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI) [...]

Sunday April 11th, 2010 in Commentary, FlashBack, Human Rights, Interests, News, Updates | No Comments »

The Kurdistan Republic of 1946

64 years ago, for the first time in Kurdish history a modern Kurdish Republic was born.  Though confined to a very limited geography of Kurdistan, and short-lived, the Republic and its legendary leader Qazi Muhammad left behind a landmark in our people’s history.  I have revisited my media archives and came across this piece by [...]

Saturday January 23rd, 2010 in Commentary, FlashBack, News | No Comments »

Regime’s harassment of the parents’ of activists is not something new

When the Kurdish people in Iran or other nation groups in other parts of Iran hear of rape and torture in Kahrizik and other regime dungeons, they do get chills, but more importantly, these barbaric acts take them back to the hardship and dreadful days of the 3 decades of Iran under the current Islamist regime.

Thursday January 14th, 2010 in FlashBack, News | No Comments »

Iranian Kurds vow to fight for regime change

In return for helping take on Mr. Ahmedinejad, the Kurds of Iran would want the same prize that the United States delivered to Iraqi Kurds after the fall of Mr. Hussein: effective autonomy in the provinces of northwestern Iran where Kurds are the majority. Neither the Kurds of Iraq nor those of Iran have given [...]

Monday January 8th, 2007 in FlashBack, News | No Comments »

Maclean’s: The back door to Tehran – The U.S. is clandestinely courting rebel forces bent on regime change

 There is no paucity of Iranian ethnic groups — fully half of the country’s population is made up of minorities — and no shortage of rebels to choose from. But their different agendas may not include a vision for a non-fundamentalist Iran that is unified and stable. And in a region already rife with sectarian [...]

Thursday July 6th, 2006 in FlashBack, News | No Comments »

Turkish Daily News: Iranian minority groups seeking US help to topple regime

ÜMIT ENGİNSOY – WASHINGTON – Turkish Daily News
“To achieve this, the international community, particularly the West, must be united and speak with one voice. So far, the regime has gained the most from the differences in approach between Europe and America in dealing with Iran,” he said. “They must redirect their support to the democratic [...]

Thursday June 1st, 2006 in FlashBack, News | Comments Off

IRAN: INTER-ETHNIC AND SECTARIAN TENSIONS ARE INCREASINGLY SHARP

For over a year, several non-Persian provinces have experienced disturbances and confrontations. The province of Khuzistan (Arabistan), in which the Arabs form the majority of the population, experienced several bloody bomb attacks, responsibility for which were claimed by Sunni Arab groups. At the other end of the country, in Sistan-Baluchistan (South-Eastern Iran) some Sunnis belonging [...]

Monday May 8th, 2006 in FlashBack, News | No Comments »

Media Blackout: Are Kurdish lives somehow less valuable than Palestinian and Iraqi ones?

Here’s a story about an uprising in the Middle East you probably haven’t heard of. For more than a month, riots and violent protests have swept through the Kurdish areas of northern Iran, resulting in a government crackdown that has killed up to 20 people and injured hundreds more. The unrest began on July 9, [...]

Thursday August 25th, 2005 in FlashBack, News | 1 Comment »

KURDISH GRIEVANCES REMAIN A THORNY ISSUE

The most recent problems in the northwest can be traced to the early July shooting in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, of a Kurdish activist known as Shavaneh Qaderi. Police reportedly shot him on 11 July when he resisted arrest. This led to demonstrations, shop closures and strikes, damage to buildings, and dozens of arrests. At [...]

Tuesday August 23rd, 2005 in FlashBack, News | No Comments »