Persecuted for the pursuit of cultural identity

  

Shahoo Hosseini, a Germany-based analyst of Kurdish affairs, believes : Iran targets Kurdish media because of the role they play in political mobilization. During hardliner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rule from 2005 to 2013, several Kurdish publications were closed. “It was much more serious in Eastern Kurdistan because Kurdish publications had a significant impact on culture and fostering a Kurdish perspective to issues that affected the Kurds’ nation,” Hosseini said, using the unofficial name for a predominantly Kurdish region in northwestern Iran

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