Kurds and the spirit of freedom on the Iraq-Iran border
In the 1980s, thousands of Kurds made for these mountains and for Iran, to escape the poison gas attacks of the Saddam Hussein regime. Now, the traffic is in the opposite direction.
A FIGHTER OF the Iranian Kurdish Komala movement looks toward the border with Iran from a base near Suleimania.(photo credit: JONATHAN SPYER)ByJONATHAN SPYER