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Are Iran's Kurds Waking Up?
(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - In a violent clash last month, a dozen Iranian Kurdish fighters were killed along with several fighters from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Have the eight million Kurds living in Iran suddenly developed aspirations for autonomy? The leadership of the Kurdish region in Iraq is opposed to the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)'s violent activities against the Iranian regime. The Kurdish regime in Iraq is diligently creating ties with Iran regarding construction of an oil pipeline through which it will be able to sell 600,000 barrels of oil a day, via Iran, to the Persian Gulf and the rest of the world.