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Iran is taking no risk with these guys anymore. This is really the country's existential war.
(lemmygrad.ml)
Kurdish Iranian opposition groups said on March 1st that they have been targeted by drone and missile attacks in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. The attacks took place after the US and Israel carried out strikes on Iran on February 28.
Several other Kurdish opposition groups also said they were targeted. Kurdish Iranian opposition groups have forces in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, and five of the groups recently agreed to form a coalition against the Iranian regime.
Alright, I'd like to push back on this. Regardless pf the actions of US funded Kurdish groups, to be apathetic towards an extermination of the Kurdish people is going much too far.
It should be noted that among Kurds, Iranian kurds are the least Gung ho about forming Kurdistan as I understand.
Honestly I think the Kurdistan project as a whole is just not worth it, and instead an effort should be made within any actual anti-imperialist kurdish groups to advocate for regional federations/confederations.
West Asia doesn't need more divided states. It needs unity and mutual development. Kurds are but one part of an extremely diverse region, why should every one of these groups be relegated to increasingly small states instead of a larger regional project?
I agree that the best case scenario would be for all the countries to collaborate with ethnic minorities within them and celebrate them in the way that China celebrates its 55 minorities.
However, you need money and prosperity to be able to do that (e.g. to pay for affirmative action policies to rectify historical discrimination). Right now, the U.S. constantly uses these minorities as liabilities for terrorism, preventing the countries they're in from getting to the point of development that they could treat them better.
China had to spend billions on education, development, and 'handouts' to stop US-funded Uyghur terrorism and instead make them feel invested in China's development.
The issue is like chicken and egg until the US stops sponsoring terrorism from minorities across the Middle East.
Yes this is true that the US exploits ethnic tensions in the region, however our support should never go behind an effort to solve that problem through explicit ethnic cleansing. That will only further the divisions and provide the US with a reactionary mass for which they can use against their enemies.
I'm saying that if a Kurdush group within Iran or any other country wants to be anti-imperialist, then they should be advocating for harmony within their own country over Separatism. Unless they are fighting a US/NATO ally like Türkiye.
Agree. I'm just looking at the problem from the perspective of the state.