Headline should read: The American who to Iraq to improve people's lives and make a real difference but ended up wasting his time persuing a completely fucking useless and dying cause that Iranian Kurds couldn't give less of a shit about.

Dude, mad respect for giving up your time and effort to go help people, but your in the wrong place. You want to topple the regime? You want to partition Iran ethnically? Dude what sort of delusional fantasy land are you living in? There is a greater probability of Tajikistan becoming an Islamic Republic before any of that stuff happens haha. The nuclear deal was the final nail in the coffin of regime change, it's done, it's over, if your trying to overthrow the government you've lost. MKO, the Royal opposition, all these people are clowns among both expat and the naitive Iranian populace. You want to know why PJAK died ? Aside from being beat militarily, it died because Iranian Kurds couldn't give less of a shit about it, their domestic support was so low that they just gave up compleatly and abandoned Iran. After the war Iranian flags were littering Qandil because PJAK just gave up and compleatly left Iran. Iranian Kurds don't care dude, they just want to move on and live their lives.

They have the rights they want and need

over 90% of managerial posts in Iranian Kurdistan are held by Sunni Kurds

Also this

Tehran launches first ever Kurdish language program, which will be available to Kurdish students this coming fall. As it is their languages are taught in school, the state has TV broadcasting for them in their language, they run all their own cities and towns. The mayors and governors of Tehran and Fars province are both Kurds despite being majority non-Kurdish. Dude, what exclusive rights are you fighting for here? Aside from usage of language I fail to see how Kurds are somehow treated differently than Persians which requires you to go waste your time with two ancient dying parties that nobody even cares about.