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Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – Two Iranian Kurds were
arrested and taken to unknown locations by Iran’s
State Security Forces (SSF) in the western province
of Kurdistan for their opposition to the Iranian
government, a Kurdish opposition group announced on
Monday.
The two individuals were identified as Azad
Lotfpouri and Rahim Shilani, according to the
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. Lotfpouri, a
student and activist from the city of Sanandaj, took
part as a speaker during an anti-government protest
in front of the city’s governor’s office. Shilani is
from the volatile Kurdish town of Boukan.
Kurdistan Province has been a hotbed of
anti-government protests and clashes for the past
months. Iranian authorities have launched a
crackdown on Kurdish areas to quell the unrest.
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