Tikvah
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December 21, 2016

Iranian Kurds Take Up the Fight

After twenty years of quiet.

While Kurds have been leading the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and in Turkey the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) has renewed its anti-government insurgency, the Kurds of Iran have remained largely quiescent for the past two decades, after being effectively and ruthlessly suppressed by the ayatollahs. In the past few months, however, the country’s three largest Kurdish groups have decided once again to engage in armed struggle against the regime. Jonathan Spyer and Benjamin Weinthal write:

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