According to reports received by Avatoday, Zeitoon Kahzadi, the principal of the Ferdowsi Girls’ Primary School in the city of Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, has been dismissed from her position after several rounds of summons and interrogations by the local office of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.
According to Kahzadi, the reason for her dismissal was the performance of the Kurdish anthem “The Path of Struggle” (Rêy Xebatman) by a group of students under her supervision. The anthem describes the freedom struggles of the Kurdish people.
Kahzadi currently continues to work as a teacher at the same school, but education authorities have been deducting around four million tomans from her salary each month.
Sources indicate that officials initially planned to expel her entirely from the education system, but after further review, the decision was reduced to dismissal from her managerial post.
It is worth noting that teachers in Iran’s Kurdish provinces face a broad and systematic campaign of repression. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, disciplinary boards in cooperation with security agencies have issued dismissal, suspension, exile, and forced retirement o
