Kurdish insurgency risk may rise in Iran
Iran's regional rivals could exploit rising tensions among its Kurdish minority
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- Disadvantaged minority
- Regional dynamics
- Limited capabilities, many constraints
- Small support base
- Heavy state security response
- Kurdish divisions
- Iraqi Kurds' ties with Iran
- Potential for new proxy war
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_350.jpg "A briefing on Iran’s anti-PJAK operations, 2011 (Reuters/Raheb Homavandi)")