my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has changed the political dynamic inside iran? it has because on the 16th of september, she was declared dead in the hospital. the day after, on the 17th, there was a funeral in her hometown of saqqez in the province of kurdistan there are four kurdish provinces in iran and it was a spontaneous protest movement erupted in saqqez, her hometown, and it soon spread to sanandaj, the capital city of that province. and two days after that, on the 19th, it was a general strike called by the cooperation center the kurdish political parties which was fully observed. and after that, they called for a peaceful evening dem
name wasjina. the story of iran s internal discontent is incomplete without an understanding of iran s kurdish population. my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has changed the political dynamic inside iran? it has because on the 16th of september, she was declared dead in the hospital. the day after, on the 17th, there was a funeral in her hometown of saqqez in the province of kurdistan there are four kurdish provinces in iran and it was a spontaneous protest movement erupted in saqqez, her hometown, and it soon spread to sanandaj, the capital city of that province. and two days after that, on the 19th, it was a general strike called by the cooperat
my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has changed the political dynamic inside iran? it has because, on the 16th of september, she was declared dead in the hospital. the day after, on the 17th, there was a funeral in her hometown of saqqez in the province of kurdistan there are four kurdish provinces in iran and it was a spontaneous protest movement erupted in saqqez, her hometown, and it soon spread to sanandaj, the capital city of that province. and two days after that, on the 19th, it was a general strike called by the cooperation center the kurdish political parties called by cooperation center of kurdish political parties which was fully observe
to obey, so the reasons are. well, all of those reasons you ve just given are fascinating and obviously, they would be aggressively disputed by the tehran regime, but my interest is that those reasons for protest you ve just outlined don t include going out on the streets, demanding greater rights for the kurdish people. maybe the kurdishness of the origins of this protest movement, as you have put it, have been lost? no. in fact, the kurds came to this revolution hoping that while they are for a broader democracy in iran, at the same time, their rights will be preserved, their rights will be recognised by the society, by the new constitution,
generation that they refuse to obey, so the reasons are. well, all of those reasons you ve just given are fascinating and obviously, they would be aggressively disputed by the tehran regime, but my interest is that those reasons for protest you ve just outlined don t include going out on the streets, demanding greater rights for the kurdish people. maybe the kurdishness of the origins of this protest movement, as you have put it, have been lost? protest movement, as you put it, have been lost? no. in fact, the kurds came to this revolution hoping that while they are for a broader democracy in iran, at the same time, their rights will be preserved, their rights will be recognised by the society, by the new constitution, by the new system in iran.