“Thank you to the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI) for promoting this lunch series and many other interesting lunch series like this one. I am here to learn like many of you and I am really honored to be up here with the representatives of the Kurdish political parties in Iran. Obviously, Iran has been in the news a lot over the last year or two, especially since the beginning of January since the hostilities heated up between the US and Iran. Despite that, we still don’t hear a lot about the Kurdish population in Iran, the Kurdish community in Iran, and these Kurdish political parties which are an important part of the fabric of Iran, and will also be part of the ultimate solution to what happens next in Iran. I am excited to hear from our guests today about what is happening in their perspective, the Kurdish population in Iran with their political parties, and with the dialogue with the United States, and other Western actors concerned about the future of Iran.”[1]

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