The story of Kurdistan began with the 1991 uprising of Iraq's Kurds against dictator Saddam Hussein, which followed the extreme horror of the 1988 Halabja chemical attack. The US, which had tried to orchestrate a more cautious route to a referendum, one that would run via Baghdad, stood by as Iraqi forces and Iran-backed militias rolled into Kirkuk, seizing the oil-rich province from Kurdistan. And Iran did help to take Kirkuk, though this is a multi-layered relationship that goes back to the Iran-Iraq war when Iraq's Kurds fought with the Iranians. [Extracted from the article]
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