Berivan Öngörur, candidate for the European Parliament: It is imperative that the EU actively supports the Kurdish people’s right to regional autonomy in Iran.
Thirty years have passed since the revolution occurred in Iran. Since then, the country has been ruled by an Islamic fundamentalist regime. As a religious dictatorship, this regime has practiced an unprecedented brutality against religious and political dissent and the country’s ethnic and national groups; such as the Kurds, Azeri-Turks, Balochs and Arabs.
The Islamic Republic’s brutality against the Iranian people in general and the Kurds and other national groups in particular is in fact a continuation of the policies of the Pahlavi dynasty in the decades before the revolution in 1979.
The Iranian dictatorship’s brutality and acts of terror is not confined to Iran’s territorial borders. Long before the contemporary academic and political debate on “transnational terrorism” in a globalized world – i.e. the organized form of political violence that transgresses state boarders – the Islamic Republic engaged in this form of political violence on regional and global levels. Iran’s support for various terrorist groups in the Middle East is something that began in the early 1980s.
The Islamic Republic’s brutality against the Iranian people in general and the Kurds and other national groups in particular is in fact a continuation of the policies of the Pahlavi dynasty in the decades before the revolution in 1979.
The Iranian dictatorship’s brutality and acts of terror is not confined to Iran’s territorial borders. Long before the contemporary academic and political debate on “transnational terrorism” in a globalized world – i.e. the organized form of political violence that transgresses state boarders – the Islamic Republic engaged in this form of political violence on regional and global levels. Iran’s support for various terrorist groups in the Middle East is something that began in the early 1980s.
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