Posts Tagged: Iran Kurds
Iran Is Weakened; Will It Persecute Minorities as a Result?
The 12-day confrontation between Iran and Israel in June 2025 may not have escalated into a full-scale regional war, but it marks a potentially critical turning point in...
Iraqi Kurdish PM Cancels Meeting With Iran Minister in Protest Over Attack
Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani canceled a meeting with Iran's foreign minister at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland in protest over...
The Kurds and the Iran-Iraq War: Have the Lessons Been Learned?
The prevailing opinion among both scholars and the general public is that Saddam Hussein went to war with Iran in September 1980 out of fear...
Without a Strong US Effort, the Kurds Will Continue to Suffer
The news of Kurdish unity talks in Syria, announced in mid-April, raised the question of a shift in US strategy toward the country. The talks...
The Messages Behind the Iranian Missile Strike in Iraqi Kurdistan
On September 8, 2018, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a barrage of missiles into Iraqi Kurdistan, targeting the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party...
Kurds Remain First in Iran’s Firing Line
JNS.org - The Iranian regime is defying the newly found US resolve to counter its malign influence with whatever means it has at its disposal. On...
Iraqi Parliament Bans Display of Israeli Flag, ‘Zionist’ Symbols, Following Conquest of Kurdish Territories
Iraq's parliament voted on Tuesday to "criminalize" the display of what it called "Zionist symbols," including the Israeli flag, across Iraq. In a condemnatory reference to...
Iranian ‘Supreme Leader’ Tells Iraqi PM Not to ‘Dissolve’ Shia Militia Accused of Kurdish Atrocities
Iran's "supreme leader," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has urged the prime minister of the Iranian-backed Iraqi government in Baghdad not to dissolve a Shia militia accused...
Iran Rejoices Over Defeat of ‘Second Israel,’ as Netanyahu Urges Support for Kurds
The chief of staff to the Iranian regime's "supreme leader" said on Tuesday that a US-Israeli "plot" to create a "second Israel" in Iraqi Kurdistan...
Hezbollah Leader Lauds Fall of Kurdish Kirkuk to Iranian-Backed Forces as ‘Our Victory’
A senior leader of the Hezbollah terrorist movement in Lebanon has boasted that the fall of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk last week to...
