Komala leader Abdulla Mohtadi told Newsweek that "the regime might collapse under pressure" if the U.S. lends its support.

And it is a threat that Iran has seen before. In 1946, Iranian and Iraqi Kurds founded a short-lived independent state known as the Republic of Mahabad. The Republic of Mahabad was established in Iran ...

Kurds represent about 10 percent of Iran's population ... A breakaway Kurdish republic backed by the Soviets briefly emerged in the Mahabad region after World War II, and an uprising broke out ...

That state, the Republic of Mahabad, lasted less than a year. The most autonomy Kurds have had since then is in Iraq. In the three northern Kurdish provinces, Kurds control the land borders with ...

Mahabad was the capital of a short-lived autonomous Kurdish state in northwest Iran in 1946 and still holds great symbolism for Kurds. The escalation in the west came a day after an attack on a ...

The Kurds are one of the indigenous people of the ... the group declared a Kurdish republic in the city of Mahabad that same year. Nearly 11 months later, however, Iranian government forces ...

Kurds defied this effort, seeing it as an affront to their cultural freedom. In 1946, they rebelled and formed the Kurdish Mahabad Republic with Soviet backing. Yet, this republic collapsed ...

The Treaty of Lausanne, ratified in 1924, divided the Kurds among the new nations of the Middle East. Kurdish separatism in Iran first bubbled to the surface with the 1946 Republic of Mahabad ...

Abaca The Kurds are a distinct ethnic community dating back thousands of years. They were unwilling to be “Arabized,” showing remarkable resilience and resistance, hence the malevolent Iraqi ...

Crackdown has focused on northwest Iran where many Kurds live Kurds using Amini case to push for secessions, official says Iranian Kurds say they seek rights within Iran, not independence Kurdish ...

Photo: Richard B. Levine/Lev Radin/Zuma Press We created Justice for Kurds in 2018, after Turkey’s attack on the Syrian region of Afrin, to defend and pay tribute to one of the West’s most ...