Fra:
Abubaker Ahmed Mirkhani
Sendt:
06-10-2021
Til:
Committee of Foreign Affairs
Platz d. Republik 1,
10557 Berlin, Germany
Call Kurdish movements in Iran:
‘We are under attack and urge Europe to treat us as you treat the Belarus opposition’
Honorable Member of Parliament,
In the last weeks, Iranian military forces bombarded the border areas and villages of Iran's
Kurdistan because of the presence of Kurdistan parties. As a result, the environment, farms, gardens
and animals damaged seriously. That there were no casualties is fortunate but that will not last. The
Iranian regime has made it very clear that it intends to extend this aggression and attack any
presence of our movements in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Since early September, the IRGC is threatening to start a cross-border war against the Kurds that
resist the Iranian regime. The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq is taking this threat very
seriously. It is obvious that a further escalation of violence in Iraqi Kurdistan is something that
nobody in Europe or the US should want. Only terrorist groups like ISIS will gain from such
escalation.
We are not planning to surrender ourselves so that many thousands of our people will be
imprisoned, tortured and raped in Iranian prisons. It would be inhuman to demand that from us.
Therefore, we will resist and not surrender. That means that either action is taken to stop Iran or
escalation will follow.
Europe has decided to stand by the opposition against the Lukashenka regime in Belarus. We ask to
be treated in the same way as we resist an evil regime that is just as oppressive and similar to the
Taliban in religious motivated violence and oppression of minorities and women. European
countries have fought this oppressive extremism for years in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. We resist
the same extremism.
As example of the religious motivation of their violence we mention that Iran’s Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) posted 9 September last a Quranic verse calling to “fight the
disbelievers,” the same day that the IRGC started a new war against the Kurds with the drone
attacks and airstrikes mentioned above.
Both we and the opposition of Belarus fight against dictatorial oppression. There is no reason to
treat us differently. The fact that we are not white Europeans should make no difference.
Ministries of Foreign Affairs in Europe as well as the European External Action Service want the
return of Iran to the JCPOA (nuclear deal). We are aware that our calls are therefore ignored by
these Ministries and institutions. It gives the impression that we are deemed less worthy of freedom