"So, for the time being, yes, we are not engaged, and we do not intend to engage in armed struggle against the Iranian regime." "We want to give the political movement, the civil movement a chance, and we don't want to give pretext to Iran for retaliation against civilians, against people," he said. Questioned about the potential for armed struggle, Mohtadi said he "can't predict the future," but, for now, "we have ruled it out." "Apart from that," he said, "it's time the United States engaged with the Iranian Kurdish, or otherwise democratic opposition," adding that such a move "gives a good boost of morale for the Iranian people," and "gives them hope." intervention he was calling for, Mohtadi said he "didn't mean American tanks and American airplanes," but rather "supporting and giving assurances to the KRG and Iraqi Kurdistan that America supports them in resisting the Iranian aggression." "I'm worried about the pressures that are exerted against us Kurdish political parties in Iraq, and I would very much like the United States to intervene."Īsked by Newsweek what sort of U.S. "I'm worried, to be honest with you," Mohtadi said.
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Speaking virtually at an event hosted Thursday by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Abdullah Mohtadi, Secretary General of the Komala Party for Iranian Kurdistan, expressed deep concern over a recent series of missile and drone attacks launched by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against his party and other Iranian Kurdish groups operating in exile out of Iraq's semi-autonomous north, which is under the jurisdiction of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). While President Joe Biden's administration has sought to continue to engage with Tehran diplomatically in order negotiate the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, that effort has yet again stalled, something the Iranian government's opponents see as an opportunity to press for greater backing. The head of an Iranian Kurdish dissident group has sought the support of the United States for Iranian resistance movements, as the Islamic Republic they oppose pounds rival positions in northern Iraq and contends with unrest at home.
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