Submission post: Kurdistan Autonomous Region or Iraq made a deliberate effort to stay out of the war with Iran, even after Trump publicly floated the idea of Kurdish forces joining the fight. Kurdish forces withdrew from sensitive border positions and explicitly stated that they did not want to be drawn into the conflict. Despite this restraint, Iran has continued to attack Iraqi Kurdistan and Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based there, with today’s strikes targeting the KRG prime minister’s office in Erbil. The escalation is a stark reminder that Tehran’s willingness to use force against the Kurds is not simply a response to Kurdish participation in the war: even after the Kurds chose restraint, Iran and its proxies have continued to target them, in this case striking at the heart of the Kurdish regional government itself
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Submission post: Kurdistan Autonomous Region or Iraq made a deliberate effort to stay out of the war with Iran, even after Trump publicly floated the idea of Kurdish forces joining the fight. Kurdish forces withdrew from sensitive border positions and explicitly stated that they did not want to be drawn into the conflict. Despite this restraint, Iran has continued to attack Iraqi Kurdistan and Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based there, with today’s strikes targeting the KRG prime minister’s office in Erbil. The escalation is a stark reminder that Tehran’s willingness to use force against the Kurds is not simply a response to Kurdish participation in the war: even after the Kurds chose restraint, Iran and its proxies have continued to target them, in this case striking at the heart of the Kurdish regional government itself