Kurdish struggle critical linchpin of Iran protests, says BBC World Affairs correspondent Jiyar Gol

Protests in Iran are continuing despite a harsh crackdown by security forces. Human rights groups say that at least 201 people have died in the violence that was triggered by the death in custody of a Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini. The 22-year old was detained by the morality police for supposedly breaking rules on mandatory Islamic-style covering.

BBC Persian Service correspondent Jiyar Gol says much of the violence is concentrated in the Kurdish heavy northwest provinces, where long running grievances over political repression and poor economic conditions mesh with the regime's suppression of Kurdish identity. 

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