How will the Kurdish independence referendum affect neighboring countries

[Serpentine]

You speak if like the Kurds like you one of their forums they said persians should be exterminated and they should Better help their Turkic brothers instead of associate themselves with iranic

As for Halabja these Baathists animals try to blame it on iran

I don't care what they think of me, but gassing women and children is something I will never defend. As you said, Baathist animals, they of course will blame Iran on everything.

 

[mangekyo]

While the majority in Eastern Turkey and Northern Iraq are Kurds. The situation in Iran is completely different.
Northwestern Iran is officially recognised as Western Azerbaijan and the area were historically populated by Azeris as the majority, Assyrian christians as the biggest minority, and baahaiis and jews as the third and fourth biggest minorities. A small amount of Kurdish tribes used to live in the mountains outside the cities.

After the revolution most of the christians, Baahaiis and jews fled the country and while Azeris remained the majority, Kurds now became the second biggest minority.

The capital of Western Azerbaijan is Urumieh. During Shahs time, residential apartments were banned from being built in Urumieh. The new government lifted this ban, and after Irans population boost the city was in drastic need of housing. The city expanded and today you can literally see apartments being built almost at any corner in Urumieh. Private firms, Contractors and even the city municipality are buying land to create new apartments. Its become quite popular for wealthy families to bulldoze their homes in order to create residential apartments and gain a huge profit.

The problem started when the city planners bought land from the Kurds. They used to traditionally occupy the mountains, but today, those desolate mountains have become luxury resorts, and land value occupied by Kurds have increased drastically in value. They have become quite wealthy due to this, and most of them moved in to the city. Kurds also control the smuggling routes, they are known to smuggle and sell narcotics, profit from it, buy stores, shopping centres, restaurants etc. They are very wealthy. This attracted Kurds from other parts of Iran to move to Western Azerbaijan. The government failed to realise that this might cause a big problem in the future. Today, Kurdish separatist claims Northwestern Azerbaijan as their own, and its Capital Urumieh, who today has a big Kurdish population as the capital of Kurdistan.

The government is still not doing anything about it. If Kurds wants independence from Iran, Im worried it might cause a future bloodshed between Irans Azeri population and the Kurds.

Iran and Turkey could cooperate but Turkey has backstabbed Iran numerous times. They will not hesitate to do so again. Im not sure what will happen in the future, but Im 100% sure if such a scenario occurs, the west and particularly USA and Israel will arm the Kurds and possibly other minorities which will cause even more bloodshed.

 

[yavar]

Iran IRGC "Muharram" exercise in West Azarbaijan, phase-1 رزمایش «محرم» سپاه در آذربایجان غربی

Turkey equipment, TR-122MM MLRS to Syria,Iraq southern border تركیه ارسال تجهیزات به مرز جنوبی

 

[SALMAN F]

I think that using a harsh hand against the Biji Biji trench diggers again is very much needed.



I would use chemical bombs too against the enemies of the state and Arabs as well. Those trench diggers and land grabbers deserve a few chemical bombs.

BTW Halabja is a part time lie.

Hopefully this great man will be released soon.



and this beautiful branch of the Iraqi military restored:

@Sharif al-Hijaz why the double standards would you support the Iranians doing the same to their arab citizens?!