While the world watched Ali Khamenei's funeral in Teheran on July 6, 2026, a different war was erupting in the mountains of western Iran. Kurdish fighters from a five-party coalition are conducting coordinated operations deep inside Iranian territory across three provinces, stretching across a hundred-mile active front. This is not periodic border violence - this is an insurgency entering a new phase. This video breaks down the June 28 clashes near Mahabad, the July 1 PDKI ambush that killed six fighters near Qezqapan, the two IRGC members killed in Paveh, the emergence of the new Kurdish group Xori Hiwa, and Iran's retaliatory strikes on Kurdish camps in Iraq that triggered regional electricity blackouts. World Order Network examines the five groups in the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan, the U.S. strikes that destroyed forty IRGC sites and knocked out radar networks across the Zagros Mountains, the reports of CIA and Mossad plans to arm Kurdish factions, and the structural problem the IRGC cannot solve: fighting an insurgency in ten-thousand-foot mountain terrain while its commanders hide and its new Supreme Leader remains invisible. We analyze IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi's first public appearance since February, the Strait of Hormuz toll dispute threatening to collapse the ceasefire, and the Kurdish fighters' statement that their struggle is not dependent on U.S.-Iran negotiations.
