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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. its 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...

name wasjina. the story of irans internal discontent is incomplete without an understanding of irans 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. its 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 ...

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. its 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 hospita...

By the new system in iran. what you have said about the origins of the protest movement were taken on board by the islamic republic military forces, in the sense that they focused a lot of their most repressive activities on the kurdish region — and, indeed, reached across the border into iraq, where your komala party has its headquarters. how badly damaged have you been in the last eight or nine months by this new, aggressive, assertive iranian military action? we take the iranian military th...

To obey, so the reasons are... well, all of those reasons youve just given are fascinating and obviously, they would be aggressively disputed by the tehran regime, but my interest is that those reasons for protest youve just outlined dont 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...

The main slogan, jin, jiyan, azadi — woman, life and freedom. well, we all know that slogan but surely, the point of that slogan is it was co—opted by the persian language and the mass demonstrations across iran, from tehran to isfahan to so many other cities were chanting it in persian, not in kurdish. but it doesnt matter. of course they — people chant in the language that they are familiar with. but the content was the same. we provided this main slogan and we remained the stronghold of...

Of storm in iran. well, the iranian regime doesnt think that. in fact, weve got senior officials saying that they believe that the number of hardcore protesters never rose beyond about 500,000. now, thats a very significant number but if we remember that irans population is currently about 80 million, then its not quite as great and hamidreza taraghi — an influential hardline supporter of the regime — he says, "lets face it — most of the protesters were simply "youths who were deceived thr...

Operations and its threats — to put it bluntly — have neutralised your activities inside iraq? we dont enter — we are in a good, friendly relations with krg. we respect each other. we do not interfere in each other�*s domestic affairs. and we — as i told you before, we have not been engaged in any military or armed struggle against iran for many, many years — even before these limitations. lets talk now about the efforts that you have been involved with personally to create a sort of...

This is bbc news. well have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour as newsday continues, straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. irans islamic republic has been in firefighting mode for months, trying to damp down the flames of mass protest sparked by the killing of a 22—year—old woman in police custody. her name was mahsa amini — at least that was her persian name. her kurdish birth name wasjina. the story of irans internal disc...

Doesnt think that. in fact, weve got senior officials saying that they believe that the number of hardcore protesters never rose beyond about 500,000. now, thats a very significant number, but if we remember that irans population is currently about 80 million, then its not quite as great and hamidreza taraghi — an influential hardline supporter of the regime — he says, "lets face it — most of the protesters were simply "youths who were deceived through social media". thats the official pos...