Damage sustained at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), east of the Arbil district in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Nov. 26, 2022. (Credit: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Videos speak of a country in armed conflict. This is what outside observers receive from inside Iran’s Kurdish provinces, when the Internet connection is back.“We are at war,” said Shukriya Bradost, a doctoral student in international relations at Virginia Tech University and a native of the region. Relatives and friends there have been sending news little by little.“Kurdish cities have been under martial law for more than a week. People cannot walk or drive outside their homes. Even at home, they are not safe. The security forces knock on doors in the middle of the night to capture young men. If they don’t open the door, they break it down and take all the men present there,” she told L’Orient-Le Jour. These accounts are corroborated by an officer at Hengaw, an independent Kurdish organization documenting human rights violations in...
Videos speak of a country in armed conflict. This is what outside observers receive from inside Iran’s Kurdish provinces, when the Internet connection is back.“We are at war,” said Shukriya Bradost, a doctoral student in international relations at Virginia Tech University and a native of the region. Relatives and friends there have been sending news little by little.“Kurdish cities have been under martial law for more than a week. People cannot walk or drive outside their homes. Even at home, they are not safe. The security forces knock on doors in the middle of the night to capture young men. If they don’t open the door, they break it down and take all the men present there,” she told L’Orient-Le Jour. These accounts are corroborated by an officer at Hengaw, an independent Kurdish organization documenting human rights...
