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
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 threats against our bases and ourfamilies and our settlements very, very seriously, but this is not the first time that they threat us or threaten us or they attack us. the latest was on the 28th of september. they wanted to distract the attention of the movement and they want to lure
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 threats against our bases we take the iranian threats against our bases and ourfamilies and our settlements very, very seriously, but this is not the first time that they threat us or threaten us or they attack us. the latest was on the 28th of september. they wanted to distract the attention of the movement