Is it time for Moscow’s “Kurdish Policy” in Iraq?

... deployment of Soviet troops in the north of Iran, the USSR became interested in Iranian Kurds. Moscow welcomed the news of the foundation of the Republic of Mahabad in Iran, but the Iranian side dissolved the Republic less than a year later. Mullah Mustafa Barzani, commander of the Republican army and future legendary leader of the Iraqi Kurds, led his followers across the border into the USSR, where Barzani was granted asylum. After the 1958 Iraq revolution, Barzani and his followers were able ...