"What happened with Jina Amini was like putting a spark on a pile of TNT, which has now exploded," Hussein Yazdanpana says about the events in Iran over the past two months. "We will not accept what has happened to the Kurds. We see what happened to
We were able to meet with young Iranians who had taken part in the current protests before they were identified by the Iranian security services and fled the country.
The Iranian authorities’ resort to ever harsher repression is rooted in their fear that under conditions of ever deepening poverty and ever-widening social inequality, the working class will erupt onto the scene.
The problem is not only the hijab. This is a symbol. The Iranian regime is intent on controlling how women live, And women are saying, I am human and I have a right to live. This time it s different." Kawthar Fatahi, 33, a former teacher from Bukan in
BEHIND THE LINES: Kawthar Fatahi, 33, a former teacher from in Iran’s Western Azerbaijan Province, is now a leading activist and organizer for the Iranian Kurdish Komala Party.