The Kurds in Iran : the past, present and future /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Ann Arbor, MI :
Pluto Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Kurds in Iran : an overview
- Introduction
- The Kurds of Iran
- 2. A history
- Post-First World War
- The Mahabad Republic
- Mossadegh
- The revolution
- The Iran-Iraq War
- 3. Iranian state policy and the Kurds : politics and human rights
- Overview of state policy
- History of the Iranian state's treatment of Kurds
- The power structure of the Islamic Republic
- Human rights and minorities
- Kurdish women
- The current human rights situation in Kurdistan
- 4. Kurdish cross-border cooperation
- A complex situation
- History of conflict and cooperation
- The current state of nascent accord
- 5. Iranian Kurds and regional geo-politics
- The Kurdish issue
- Iran and Turkey
- 6. Iran's relations with the West
- The Iranian outlook
- Implications of the election of Ahmadinejad
- Iran and the United States
- Iran and the European Union
- Iran and the United Nations
- Islamic values and human rights.
- 7. Possibilities for the future
- Renaissance of political and social thought
- The Iranian Kurdish national movement
- Government response and responsibility
- Implications of changes in regional gepolitics
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Index.
