"What happened with Jina Amini was like putting a spark on a pile of TNT, which has now exploded," Hussein Yazdanpana says about the events in Iran over the past two months. "We will not accept what has happened to the Kurds. We see what happened to
We were able to meet with young Iranians who had taken part in the current protests before they were identified by the Iranian security services and fled the country.
The armed groups, which have trained in the Kurdistan region for decades, face attacks from Iran and pressure from the Iraqi government to give up their weapons.