Kurdistan-Democratic-Party-of-Iran-(KDPI)

Members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) participate in a class in an outpost near Erbil, Kurdistan region of Iraq on Thursday, June 15, 2023. The KDPI, a leftist Kurdish group of Iran that has been running an armed struggle against the Islamic Republic's regime in Iran from exile for decades. The group has found itself in the spotlight of the recent tensions inside Iran after the women-led protest movement ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini, as Tehran has repeated blamed what it calls the "separatist" Kurdish group behind the protests, and since has targeted the group with drones and missile strikes inside Iraq. (Photo by Keiwan Fatehi / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by KEIWAN FATEHI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)