Iran has taken aim at a small Kurdish-majority city in its most recent attempt to fight back against protests that have raged in the country for over two months.
to not remain silent over"the massacre of the Kurdish people," arguing silence from the international community will only embolden the Iranian regime.
Iranian authorities have struggled to get a grip on protests that originated after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amin at the hands of police in September. With those protests still raging, Daftari said the country's Kurdish minority serves as a natural target for the regime's violent pushback. Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police in September.
"It’s no coincidence that the regime is particularly fixated on killing Kurds both inside and outside its borders," Daftari said."During the ongoing revolution, which has now endured over two months, the regime has used every opportunity to violently crack down on peaceful protesters while the world sits idly by. The Iranian people are calling on mainstream media outlets to cover their movement and for Western leaders to support them in their endeavor.
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