July 14, 2009, Paris – A one day strike was staged in almost all the Iranian Kurdish cities in the provinces of West Azerbijan, Kordestan, Kirmashan and Ilam in July 13, 2009. The majority of the shops in these cities were closed and Kurdistan went into darkness for three minutes.  Shaho Hussieni, the foreign relations chief of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI) said: “This one day strike was planned to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou and his read more… »

The Islamic regime in Iran shows no respect for the real outcome of the elections that took place under its own non-democratic frame works and discriminatory procedures on 12 June 2009. The regime carried out a political coup instead, in order to maintain the Supreme Leader’s favoured candidate, Mr Ahmadinejad, in power. read more… »