Iranian and Syrian Kurds are being squeezed by repression, siege and proxy war; even the latest voices from PJAK refuse to become anyone’s infantry. There are moments when history does not merely trap a people between two enemies; it presses them into the same vice from opposite directions. That is where Iranian and Syrian Kurds now stand. In Iran, Kurdish opposition groups are being drawn toward the dangerous frontier where political struggle can be turned into military utility. In Syria, Kobane, has once again become the emblem of a community first praised for its resistance to ISIS and then left exposed to siege, infrastructural strangulation and strategic neglect. The histories…