# Security operations intensify in Kurdish provinces during the 2026 war

Date: 2026

## The fact

In March 2026 security operations intensified in Kurdish-majority provinces during the US-Israeli war, a completed interior-and-IRGC cluster. [Pezeshkian](/people/masoud-pezeshkian)’s interior owned a share; the IRGC answered to the new Leader.

## Context

Neighbouring wartime crackdown is the national interior file. Neighbouring Azeri outreach is earlier speech. Do not load every IRGC raid onto this chair as unique command.

March 2026 national crackdown is neighbouring. Azeri outreach 2024 is earlier speech.

The President of Iran is head of the executive, not commander-in-chief of the IRGC or the armed forces. That command sits with the Supreme Leader. Pezeshkian does not write IAEA Board resolutions, [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designations, or Israeli cabinet strike orders. An IRGC operation is not automatically his Fact.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of Interior of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights): completed wartime operations in Kurdish provinces are an ethnic-rights cost with shared IRGC authorship.

## What is established and what is not

Established: March 2026 intensified operations in Kurdish provinces, independently reported.

Not established: that he commanded every IRGC column, or a unique later displacement coefficient as a personal tally.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The IRGC answered to Mojtaba’s office. Kurdish parties and protesters were the targets. Store shared authorship, not unique Guard command.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Security operations intensify in Kurdish provinces during the 2026 war, not a later speech about Security operations intensify in Kurdish provinces during the 2026 war.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Security operations intensify in Kurdish provinces during the 2026 war on 2026-03-20 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Interior of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Security operations intensify in Kurdish provinces during the 2026 war into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His interior owned a share. The IRGC answered to Mojtaba’s office. Kurdish parties and protesters were the targets. Store shared authorship, not unique Guard command. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Masoud Pezeshkian: https://factrail.ai/people/masoud-pezeshkian

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-kurdish-provinces-security-operations-war-2026-03-20/
- https://www.moi.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-kordestan-2026