Kurdish War: Iran and Kurds Fighting Again

December 26, 2025: Last July an Iranian drone attack killed a PJAK/Party of Free Life of Kurdistan gunman, which caused PJAK members to retaliate. This and related violence indicated a breakdown in the 2011 ceasefire. PJAK insisted it would not disarm or dissolve like the PKK, and would with violence if threatened, putting itself for a more active political and militant situation inside Iranian Kurdistan.