A senior figure in Iran’s Kurdish opposition has tied any potential ground incursion into Iran to a major U.S. military decision: the establishment of a no-fly zone over Kurdish areas in western Iran. This was necessary “so that the Islamic Republic cannot attack from the air and use its military superiority,” Reza Kaabi said in an interview in Erbil with WELT, which is — as is POLITICO — part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network.
Kaabi is the secretary-general of the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan, an armed Iranian Kurdish party based in the Kurdistan Region of…