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| Kurdish leader urges Iranian security forces to take protesters' side |
| 2015-05-09 |
| [RUDAW.NET] A Kurdish opposition leader called on members of the Iranian security forces on Friday not to turn their guns on civilian protesters, warning that the demonstrations may turn nation-wide. "Members of Iran's armed forces or the security should remember that they are part of that nation and therefore they should not be silent when something like this happens to their people," Omar Baleki, member of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran told Rudaw. "They must not take the side of the Islamic Theocratic Republicagainst their own people," Baleki added. "On a day like this they must protect the people." Abdullah Muhtadi, secretary general of the Kurdish Komala Party told Rudaw that the situation in Kurdish cities in Iran is tense due to the heavy deployment of security forces. "I confirm that the Iranian regime has deployed the army and security forces heavily in many Kurdish cities especially in Mahabd city and this has created a very tense situation," Muhtadi said. Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this!Then the trap sprung... Baleki said that the demonstrations by the people of Mahabad against the death of Farinaz Khosrawani is the expression of more than three decades of oppression. "That incident could easily become a nation-wide protest," he said. "On the surface it is just an attack on a single woman, but in reality this injustice and repression has been happening to the Kurdish people for 36 years." Thousands of people erupted into the streets of the Kurdish city of Mahabad on Thursday to protest the death of Khosrawani, 25, who jumped from the fourth floor of Tara Hotel. |
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