Category: Iran

Dear Those Who Celebrate the Censorship of RojTV: An Open Letter

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Dear those who celebrate the censorship of RojTV, When an entire people are systematically oppressed and marginalized, small actions to make their story heard can have dramatic consequences. Similarly, small actions to silence their voice can have dramatic and tragic …

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Can you help Kurds to have a remembrance day for the Genocide?

Posted on by Laween Atroshi

Dear Friends of Kurdistan, I have set up an e-petition urging the British Government to recognize the Genocide inflicted upon the Kurdish population by the former regime of Saddam Hussein. If we get 100,000 signatures than they will debate this …

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What’s really going on in Iraq?

Posted on by Abdulla Hawez (Kurdistan)

The recent tension in Baghdad between Nouri  Al-Maliki’s Shiite Iraqi prime minister with both Iraqi president’s deputy Tariq Al-Hashimi, and his deputy for service affairs, Salih Mutlaq, which both are Sunnis is highly connected with the regional tension between Iran …

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Round Up: Latest Violations Against Kurdish Rights

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Below are updates of the recent coverage from the Alliance for Kurdish Rights detailing abuse against the Kurdish people: Mass Arrests of Kurdish Intellectuals in Istanbul: My father-in-law was one of fifty people arrested on Friday morning, and while the …

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Beyond King of the Mountain

Posted on by Leyla H.

I’ve been thinking a lot about democracy in the Middle East. That is why I’ve been exploring the most sustainable way that democracy could happen for countries like Iran. I believe that one of the most important prerequisites is understanding …

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Kurdish Human Rights activist arrested!

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

Rojin Mohamadi has been arrested upon her return to Iran. She is a Human rights activist, and has been vocal about the Iranian regimes failures, especially Iran’s human rights record. She was arrested on the 14th of November, and later …

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Well! It’ unfair to blame Iran on its nuclear program, but WHY?

Posted on by Abdulla Hawez (Kurdistan)

The nuclear power has been innovated by the father of nuclear physics Ernest Rutherford in 1919. And the first nuclear power plant has been made in Obninsk  in 1954 which generate electricity for a power grid, and produced around 5 megawatts of electric power. Also …

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Take Action to halt the execution of two Kurdish citizens in Iran!

Posted on by Suzan Boulad (Syria)

Young Iranian Kurds Loghman Moradi and Zaniar Moradi have been fighting for their lives ever since they were sentenced to death by hanging by the Iranian regime on December 22nd, 2010. The two men have spent years in Iranian prisons, …

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Violence against “Persepolis.”

Posted on by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)

God as an old bearded men: For some devout Muslims, a film accused of blasphemy caused angry protests in Tunisia. The riots were directed against a television station that broadcast to the French-Iranian film “Persepolis.” ,and today they hit the …

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Two Hints That Peace May Be Possible

Posted on by Nissim Dahan

In this increasingly hostile world of ours, it is only natural to search for even the slightest hint that peace may be possible. As I watched the news last night, two such hints came into sharp focus right before my …

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