How did Iran kill a 19-year-old during the ceasefire? Life and death of Kurdish fighter Ghazal Molan
youtube.comu/rkurdistanmod — 1 day ago
r/Rojhelat
Same post on X / twitter: https://x.com/i/status/2052294119716778178
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Daily Reminder: Guran Kurds are commonly Yarsani Kurds and usually from a continuous area of northwestern Kirmāshān.
As for Gūrān = Eastern Kurdish speaker, (Hawrami etc.) you have to understand that while this was true originally and later on partially this is not true anymore. This notion serves for ethnological and anthropological and linguistic purposes only.
Now there are exceptions too e.g. there are some Jāf that once joined the Gūrān but stayed sunnite muslims and still spoke CK at home. No idea if they still exist as part of the Gūrān confederation.
There are also Gūrān in former Ardalān area but obviously they have been assimilated as they speak CK and are not Yārsānī.
There is also the Gorān tribe of Bādīnān, they are NK/CK speaking sunnite muslims and they descend from actual EK speakers of Karkūk/Halabja area close to Hawrāmān and had apparently become CK speaking muslims before they ended up in Bādīnān.
u/sheerwaan — 7 days ago
To put it more clearly, the regime is not merely organizing armed forces loyal to itself; it is simultaneously waging a "war of words." By co-opting Kurdish symbols and social capital, it aims to blur the boundaries between political resistance and collaboration with the apparatus of repression.
This paradigm, built upon creating ruptures within the social fabric and fostering systematic confrontation among different strata of society, lacks any legitimacy from the perspective of human rights and international legal standards. It is recognized solely as an instrument for the institutionalization of structural violence.
u/rkurdistanmod — 8 days ago
van Wilgenburg on al-Marashi's and Goudsouzian's "Why Iran will not fracture along ethnic lines"
> "Majority of Kurdish parties in Iran are not separatist and they have broad support (in sunni Kurdish areas) as shown by the widespread general strikes they have launched in Kurdish areas over the years.
> "But the IRGC (as the monarchists before them) suppressed any support for Kurdish parties and you could end up arrested, jailed, and executed and all Kurdish uprisings were violently suppressed even before 1979. The fact they have to use military force to subdue the Kurds over and over again, shows the Kurdish national sentiment is strong.
> "The only reason why there is no large Kurdish mobilization now is that the U.S. decided not to support Kurdish parties due to Turkish pressure. If they do, the Kurdish parties would take Western Iran quickly as they did in 1979. So yes, force explains 'their failure'.
>"Tanya Goudsouzian lived in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq before. So she should know better."
u/rkurdistanmod — 4 days ago
Same post on twitter: https://x.com/i/status/2049157516026687759
Iranian Persians who consider themselves Iranians by identity and ethnicity and as the people of an Iranian ethnostate and want all the non-persian Iranians to do the same are stuck at immense fallacy. It is cope and bias.
If you tell Kurds that as Kurds they have to know other Kurdish dialects then the normal ones will agree and accept that way of thought. Even if they will not do the act themselves, they know this is the brotherly/sisterly familiarity we need to have with each other.
But dare you tell an Iranian Persian that they should learn Kurdish or Balochi or Lurish or Gilaki or another Iranic tongue that is not his beloved Farsiye Darbari, since he claims that they are all Iranians together ... they will accuse you of nationalism, separatism and whatever other ignorant and fascistic idea they could have.
Mind you, on contrary to everybody else I am aware of the Western Iranic background, frame and setting of the Kurds on EVERY single academic field to fullest extent.
But it doesn't mean much if we are talking about Kurds. Or "Iranians". It doesn't matter which state my parents or grandparents or which empire my ancestors were citizens of.
I am a Kurd and my native tongue is Kurdish. Persian or another language has nothing to do with me. Historically, it may have been a lingua franca or a language of script? Well, so was arabic. And today it is English. So this argument is useless.
Even if we consider a scenario where Kurds and Iranians/Persians inhabit a federalistic state, this will only ever be acceptable to the least if we have FULL AND FREE CONTROL of our own lands in Kurdish language and by Kurds. So what do we need that then for?
All we need is for Kurdistan to be liberated and independent and to find to our true Kurdish sense of identity.
u/sheerwaan — 13 days ago