SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region – Iranian Kurdish armed groups have welcomed the new US strategy on Iran as unveiled by President Donald Trump on Friday.

Putting in place further sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is a step in the right direction, but the US should not stop there, say the armed groups, mainly present on the Kurdistan Region borders with Iran. The groups, seeking greater national and cultural rights for millions of Kurds in the country, resumed their armed struggle in 2015.