Traditional Kurdish clothing shops in Iran’s western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) have noticed a growing demand for Kurdish ...

Iran’s intelligence service has summoned dozens of people and instructed them not to wear traditional Kurdish clothing during Newroz celebrations later this month, a watchdog said on Friday.

The Iranian Kurds took advantage of the Soviet Union’s control of northern Iran after WWII to declare an independent Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, but it was crushed after the Soviets withdrew.

Azerbaijanis in Iran, like many other non-Persian ethnic minority groups living under the Islamic Republic, face repression and are denied the right to speak in their mother tongue at official ...

Although not from Tabriz, Pezeshkian was born not far from there, in Mahabad, the capital of West Azerbaijan Province in Iran. Pezeshkian represented the Tabriz region in Iran’s parliament for ...

The cultural week is a great opportunity to learn about the local culture, which harmoniously blends Azerbaijani and Persian ...

The late Barzani's legacy remains a driving force in the Kurdish struggle for democracy and self-determination, with his ...

From the Zilan Valley Massacre to the tragedies of Mahabad and Amuda, and more recently, the atrocities in Sinjar, Afrin, and Serekaniye, these events are but a fraction of the systematic genocidal ...

India could go further, however, and establish an ambassador to Kurdistan to travel from Mahabad in Iran to Kobane in Syria and from Diyarbakir in Turkey to Erbil in Iraq. For India, a bet on the ...

Following Mahabad's collapse under Iranian pressure ... whose government promised better treatment of the Kurds. Initially hopeful, Barzani collaborated with Baghdad, but broken promises soon led to ...