Accoring to rojhalat.info, The weekly newsletter ‘Niday Gerroos’ was mandated to be published only in Farsi.
Niday Gerroos is a social and political weekly newsletter that has been publishing since 1994 in both Kurdish and Farsi languages. This newspaper was issued in Bicar, a Kurdish city in east of Kurdistan.
Mehmud Mehmudi, the editor of the newspaper protested against the decision and alleged that ‘although our newspaper has not been completely closed but we are told by the Office of Islamic Culture and Public Relations that we are not allowed publishing it in Kurdish’.
Language is one of the most important tools in preserving the culture and the literature of a nation and by destroying a language, a nation is killed; as all the main cultural elements are buried once the language is annihilated.
In Iran the Kurdish language is not prohibited in Media only, this language has never been allowed to be used in education and all educated Iranian Kurds are Kurdish natives fluent in Farsi and do not know how to write and read in Kurdish. Their mother tongue is strongly influenced by Farsi and in some Kurdish cities; near the borders of Persians the Kurdish language is almost forgotten.
source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1642-iran-prohibits-publication-in-kurdish-language
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