Kurds

As she was flogged, Roya Heshmati chanted "in the name of woman, in the name of life, the clothes of slavery are torn..."

Today Iraq is trying to put some of its past behind it.

Since its founding in 2004, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) has never attacked civilians in Iran, or anywhere else. It does not focus its offensive operations against any other government. 

Iraq's sectarian parliamentary system breeds instability and creates incentives to persecute people.

Iran has tended to believe it can oppress minority groups in specific ways and that the groups will not unite in protest at the same time.

The Revolutionary Guards detained a dual national suspected of "trying to organize unrest and sabotage," on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death.

Iran is insisting that the Iraqi government disarm and remove Kurdish opposition groups

Many of Iraqi Kurdistan's neighbors are jealous of its success and are chomping at the bit to undermine it.

Hussein said he would visit Tehran on Wednesday to deliver the message in person in the hopes that it would prevent any escalation on the border.

Four protesters were shot dead in clashes between ethnic groups in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk that broke out after days of tensions.