The Iranian government could use the threat of separatism to rally Persian nationalism, split the opposition, and frame the war as foreign-backed dismemberment rather than a domestic revolt, thereby justifying mass arrests and violence against Kurds inside Iran.

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  Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the Iran war

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• Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the Iran war www.atlanticcouncil.org Atlantic Council via serper

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