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Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program, with our special guest, the General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan Mustafa Hijri, we will discuss the current strikes in the business districts of Kurdistan and how the Islamic republic regime has reacted to them, plus his political party’s economic policy for the region, and ask him if as the Iranian regime claims, his movement is after an independent Kurdistan or as its late founder Abdulrahman Ghassemlou always said, the party wants democracy for Iran and self governing autonomy for Kurdistan?
Jamshid Chalangi:
The Kurdish Iranian citizen Ramin Hossein Panahi has been sentenced to death by the regime in behind the door trial and denied of having a lawyer. What do you make of his sentence?
Kurdistan Mustafa Hijri:
The Iranian regime fears to hold these trials publicly as then people will be able to hear the truth from the accused that are unjustly tried, imprisoned, tortured and finally executed.
The so-called judges who oversee these sham trials issue their rulings to the liking and under the order of the regime’s intelligence agencies and Ramin Hossein Panahi is one he latest victims of such travesty of justice in Iran.
At the same time with these harsh rulings the regime aims to threaten and frighten the people. Iran is ruled by an ideologically driven regime that wants to dominate all the religious and ethnic minorities of the country. The only supporters of this regime are among the terrorist organizations of the world and as such it does not care about the wellbeing of the Iranian people. This regime is heading towards collapse and it is only after the overthrow of all its apparatus that our people will be freed of political prisons and executions.
Jamshid Chalangi:
What are the basic demands of our Kurdish people?
Kurdistan Mustafa Hijri:
There are numerous political, economic and social problems in the Kurdish areas of Iran, with unemployment as the biggest of them. The only choice left to the thousands of jobless young people in Kurdistan of Iran is to work as human transporters to move goods across the border towns in dangerous terrains and through mountainous footpaths. But the regime does not even tolerate this and has closed down all the border crossings between Iran and Iraq.
Jamshid Chalangi:
What is your party’s plan for the region?
Kurdistan Mustafa Hijri:
We believe in the establishment of a democratic federalist Iran that would be composed of all our Iranian peoples, where there is no discrimination against anyone for the color of their skin, religion or ethnicity. We strongly oppose any religious dictatorship and people must be free to choose their religion and language.
Jamshid Chalangi:
Do you not think these slogans are idealistic?
Kurdistan Mustafa Hijri:
Iranians of all political and religious beliefs are currently suppressed by this regime in equal terms. Except the Fars ethnic people other Iranian ethnic groups are under dual repression of the regime. This dual repression can be seen in the economic disadvantages that are aimed at the ethnic minorities of Iran.
Until such a day that these discriminations end we will not see peace in the Kurdish or Baluchi regions of Iran. There is no need for a child to be forced to learn the Farsi language from an early age. Why should the regime be afraid of our people learn their mother tongue? Discriminations can be in different forms. It is not only economic discriminations that we are protesting against.
We must do away with anything that this regime stands for to end all forms of injustice that are done to the Iranian people.
Jamshid Chalangi:
We will also discus the nuclear deal with our guest later in the program.
Stay with us for this edition of Behind the Headlines and share it with your family and friends.
