Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Eastern Kurdistan" in Simple English language version.
The assassinations of Iranian Kurdish political figures in Europe throughout the 1990s demonstrated that Iran feels no more in control of its Kurdish minorities than do its neighbours.
Violations of the rights of ethnic minorities continue to be reported in the country. Almost one fifth of the executions carried out in Iran in 2016 concerned Kurdish prisoners. Among those executions, 21 were related to the crime of "moharebeh" (waging war against God and the State) and 1 to membership in a Kurdish political party. Kurdish political prisoners are said to represent almost half of the total number of political prisoners in the country.