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"BAGHDAD: Deadly raids into Turkey by Kurdish militants holed up in northern Iraq are the focus of urgent diplomacy, with Turkey threatening invasion of Iraq and the United States pleading for restraint while expressing solidarity with Turkish anger.
Yet out of the public eye, a chillingly similar battle has been under way on the Iraqi border with Iran. Kurdish guerrillas ambush and kill Iranian forces and retreat to their hideouts in Iraq. The Americans offer Iran little sympathy - Tehran even says Washington aids the Iranian guerrillas, an accusation that the United States denies. True or not, that conflict, like the Turkish one, has explosive potential.
On a recent reporting trip to the Iran-Iraq border, this correspondent interviewed Salih Shevger, an Iranian Kurdish guerrilla, as he lay flat on a slab of rock atop a 3,000-meter, or 10,000-foot, mountain, with binoculars pressed to his face as he kept watch on Iranian military outposts perched on peaks about six kilometers, or about four miles, away."
Kurdish militants' other front: Iran - International Herald Tribune
Yet out of the public eye, a chillingly similar battle has been under way on the Iraqi border with Iran. Kurdish guerrillas ambush and kill Iranian forces and retreat to their hideouts in Iraq. The Americans offer Iran little sympathy - Tehran even says Washington aids the Iranian guerrillas, an accusation that the United States denies. True or not, that conflict, like the Turkish one, has explosive potential.
On a recent reporting trip to the Iran-Iraq border, this correspondent interviewed Salih Shevger, an Iranian Kurdish guerrilla, as he lay flat on a slab of rock atop a 3,000-meter, or 10,000-foot, mountain, with binoculars pressed to his face as he kept watch on Iranian military outposts perched on peaks about six kilometers, or about four miles, away."
Kurdish militants' other front: Iran - International Herald Tribune