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This chapter focuses on the resurgence of Iran’s Kurdish movement and the transformation in conflict it is engendering. It starts with an account of the conflict’s historical background and examines the domestic and regional factors behind the recent increase in violence in the conflict. It details the political developments taking place domestically in Iran and within the Kurdish society there before moving on to examine the regional factors and developments taking place in the pan-Kurdish political space in the Middle East. Overall, the chapter provides an up-to-date empirical account of Kurdish politics in Iran and contributes to the growing literatures on the accommodation of the rights and demands of Iran’s ethnic minorities and the rise of Kurdish movements and entities in the Middle East.
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Gunes, C. (2019). The Transformation of Iran’s Kurdish Conflict. In: The Kurds in a New Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00539-9_5
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