Category: Articles

This is my home, Oh Canada! Happy Canada Day!

As one of the Millions of people who have come to call this place a home, I take the moment to cherish this July 1st, Canada Day, as a proud Kurdish Canadian.
As Canadians from all strides celebrate this historic day in our Canadian history, people, like me and my family and countless others, who have [...]

Thursday July 1st, 2010 in Articles, Interests, News, Updates | No Comments »

Iranian Kurds Mourned Their Death With a Day on Strike

To Protest the death of 5 political prisoners of which 4 were Kurdish political prisoners, Iranian Kurds went on strike on a coordinated campaign by exiled Kurdish opposition political parties.

Saturday May 15th, 2010 in Articles, Commentary, News | No Comments »

The Need for an Inclusive Iranian Opposition

“Unless regime change does not become the unequivocal objective of the whole movement and unless the rights of the Kurdish people are recognized by its leaders, there will be no strategic cooperation between the Green Movement and the Kurdish national movement.”

Friday April 9th, 2010 in Articles, News | No Comments »

Defiance to Iran’s Theocracy Continues in Iranian Kurdistan

In March 1947 Qazi Muhammad, the President of short-lived Kurdistan Republic and two of his cabinet members and relatives Saif Qazi and Sadri Qazi were publicly hanged in Mehabad’s main square where the Republic was first proclaimed in the January of 1946.  Eleven others were hanged in Saqiz among other cities by the monarchist regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. 

Thursday April 1st, 2010 in Articles, News | No Comments »

Two Opposing Perspectives on Iran’s Ethnic Groups

Although the regime has been able to contain the Green Movement for its part, the debate over this movement and its direction still dominates much of the media frenzy about Iran.  As the Middle East Institute hosted an event to discuss Iran’s Kurds as one of the largest ethnic groups in Iran where I argued [...]

Saturday March 20th, 2010 in Activities, Articles, Commentary, News | No Comments »

What to do with Iran?

What to do about Iran is a puzzling question in the minds of many who have a vested interest in this country and its people.  Though, there are no wrong or right answers to this questions, my colleague, Loghman H. Ahmedi has drafted a brief analysis of all possible answers and solutions to this dilemma [...]

Friday March 5th, 2010 in Articles, Commentary, News | No Comments »

Week Review in Action: Show of Force in Washington

Iran being one of the most discussed topic in 2009 and likely 2010 as well, its international defiance and its internal disarray, has prompted a number of prominent centres and scholars to hold important meetings on Iran’s future.  Aside from this, we are also approaching the 1979 Revolution anniversaries on February 11, 2010, which the opposition [...]

Wednesday February 10th, 2010 in Activities, Articles, News | No Comments »

Another Kurdish political prisoner was executed!

In his testimony at the revolutionary court, Mr. Yarsamani stated that confessions were extracted via torture and there were no evidence of his political involvement and the charges were baseless.  According to some sources he was charged with being a member of PJAK, and other reports claim that his membership with Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan

Wednesday January 6th, 2010 in Articles, Human Rights, News | 3 Comments »

Iranian regime gunmen out in the open!

Iranian regime has been brutalizing this country and its population for the last 30 years and though much of it is well known to the world outside there has been little done by the international community to stop it.  The gunmen and militias that we see today opening fire on protesters who want nothing less than [...]

Sunday January 3rd, 2010 in Articles, Commentary, News | 1 Comment »