Iranian Kurds now see the protests in Iran, in which they are actively taking part, as an opportunity for the country to get rid of a religious regime and improve the condition of human rights, but also as an opportunity to restore on the carpet their old demand for autonomy, which is part of the historical nationalist aspiration of the Kurds of the Middle East for a transnational home straddling Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, explains the pan-Arab newspaper Daraj.
In several cities in the north and north-west of Iran – where Mahsa Amini, the young woman who died after being arrested by the morality police – is from, mainly Kurds, the flag of the Islamic Republic has been set on fire in the early days of the protests, while the security forces were expelled from some