for example, the violence of security forces in iran, curtis dan, mahsa amini, the young woman who was flashpoint in these protests, was 22 years old, and iranian kurdish woman, killed in tehran. and also the systemic killing of other protesters, what is the status of the minority? mostly suni and a majority shia state. >> unfortunately, the minorities in iran are subjected to extreme discrimination. when you look at people on death row in iran, you will see 95% of those on death row are from minorities in iran. the government represses them more than others. mahsa amini, in her birth certificate, her parents wanted to call her a kurdish name but the government did not allow that because they said you're not allowed to choose a kurdish name, yet you choose a persian name for your child. this is real repression. mahsa amini was a young girl and had come to tehran just as a tourist in to visit a few of her relatives. she was on the street with her brother when the morality police, under the pretext her headscarf was not covering her whole head, arrested her and they took her to a detenti

she was from curtis dan province home to aaron's kurdish minority. the police released the security camera photography, which they say shows massa arriving at a facility. or she was to go through what's called a we education classes on the run, the just benefits of wearing the headscarf hockey, the the official autopsy report, and subsequent investigation launched by the government alleged massa had a pre existing health condition and suffered a heart attack while in police custody, her family says that this is not true and accused the morality police of beating her while in custody. sees like these followed her death and sparked nationwide protests driven by women who demand an end to restrictive dress rules in the country. those who back the existing laws were allowed to gather into her on to shoulder support for the government. while the president was quick to address the issue and alive televised interview, you shall go from cook. i told her family that this news was shocking, not just for me, but for every iranian criticism and dialogue on vario

it is difficult to have accurate use -- more overall in curtis dan --kurdistan.t is difficult to have accurate -- numbers on this. we have heartbreaking news from the region of iran. yet people with the sharing or limited -- they cannot access that they can hold onto their stories and the situation and the world is still waiting for further reaction to the situation. but at the same time, for them, the excuses when they -- want to keep iran as a whole -- doing what we are doing in the most horrible organized way so that we keep the independent of -- independence of the country together is not the case. because of the proud iranians day one even though they are all truly proud of the fact that they are from kurdistan. but they served that country and they have been under a lot of stress and now that we have -- i love my country about 50 years ago. but i carried the story of iran in my heart. i spend many years there and in the u.s., i have never seen anything like this -- making me truly upset and breaking my heart for what is happening in my homeland. but at the