Iran’s leaders opposed Kurdish independence vote in Iraq. Iran’s Kurds celebrated on the streets.

  ISTANBUL — Nearly every Middle East government was opposed to Monday's vote for independence in the Kurdish region of Iraq. But not so just across the border in the cities and towns of western Iran. There, thousands of Iranian Kurds, jubilant for their Iraqi kin, staged demonstrations in support of the vote. (Iran is […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/09/26/irans-leaders-opposed-kurdish-independence-vote-in-iraq-irans-kurds-celebrated-on-the-streets/