Days into the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, Trump officials and Kurdish leaders began openly musing about whether Iran’s Kurdish minority should seize on the dire situation facing the Islamic Republic and engage in armed operations against the state.
The question of how best to pursue nationalist goals is a long-simmering one for the region’s Kurds, who have no state of their own and live within countries – primarily Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria – that have regularly denied them political equality.
