Iran's Kurds play leading role in protests but bear brunt of repression

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : It has brought together Iranians of both genders and all ethnic groups in calls to bring about fundamental changes to Iran, which has been under the rule of fundamenalist clergy and their military allies since a 1979 revolution.
48% : "It's the only part of Iran where political organisations, although banned, have an undeniable leverage over the population and can mobilise very effectively," said Mr Hasan Zade.
45% : The death of Amini, who also has the Kurdish first name Jhina, while in the custody of the country's morality police during a family visit to Tehran and subsequent burial in Iranian Kurdistan has sparked the biggest wave of political unrest in the country since 2009.
41% :"These scattered riots are the passive and clumsy design of the enemy against the great and innovative developments and movements of the Iranian nation," said the 83-year-old cleric, who has ruled Iran for more than 33 years.
41% :Kurds in Iran do not suffer the same level of discrimination as they do in Turkey and Syria or that they have historically withstood in Iraq, Over the decades, Iranian Kurds situation has waxed and waned.
38% : "The whole movement started with the death of a Kurdish woman," said Aso Hasan Zade, an Iranian Kurdish academic and former deputy-secretary general of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran.
35% : "The crimes that are taking place by the regime in Kurdish areas are more extreme than other parts of Iran and that is convincing people to push harder for what they want."
35% :Kurds in Iran are not homogenous.
29% : "Cutting off the internet means massacres in Iran."

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