Under drone fire, exiled Kurds wait to confront Iranian regime

A group of fighters based in Iraq say they are "ready to go home", as they face drone attacks from Tehran.

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Two of his sisters remain in Iran, and 18 of his relatives lie buried there, killed by the regime. That includes one of his brothers, who he tells us is "forever young" - a protest singer, executed at the age of 21.

It wasn't enough for Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps to hang him, he says, and riddle his body with bullets, they heaped more suffering on his mother, after his death.

"When she went to wash his body [for burial], there were 16 bullet holes," he says. "They told her: 'You must not cry. If you do, we will not let you clean him and bury him.'"

He wants justice not revenge if the regime falls. There is no sign of that yet.