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Kawsar Fattahi (left) and (right) Siamak Modarresi of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
KOMALA Party of Iranian Kurdistan deputy leader Siamak Modarresi urged the world not to forget about the plight of the Kurds in Iran in an exclusive interview with the Morning Star on Thursday evening.
Speaking from a peshmerga training base on the outskirts of Slemani in Iraqi Kurdistan, he said that the situation inside Iran was desperate, with the theocratic regime escalating its persecution of Kurds, who are targeted for arrest and execution.
“Many people know about the struggle of the Kurds in Iraq and Rojava [northern Syria], but Kurds in Iran have paid a heavy price in their struggle for freedom and the right to practice their own culture, speak their own language,” he said.
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