The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of what has been dubbed the “Arab Spring” on the condition of the Kurds in Iran. Of course, the transformation of the Kurdish society in Iran predates the onset of the Arab Spring and dates back at least sixty years. In more recent years, the Kurds have been an integral part of the reform movement that began with the election of Mohammad Khatami as Iran’s president in 1997 and the emergence of the Green Movement in the aftermath of the country’s disputed 2009 presidential election. Throughout these developments, the yearning for democracy and human rights, and not assimilation, has been the common thread. The Kurdish discourse on democracy and democratization has long challenged the illusion of the “melting pot,” or the concept that assimilation is an inexorable process produced by “modernization” or “Islamization” and the emergence of a relatively strong and centralized nation-state in Iran. Among the Iranian Kurds, some, like the Kurdish Free Life Party (PJAK), have resorted to armed struggle, while others have sought to become part and parcel of the broader, generally nonviolent, reform movement in the country. However, the Kurds and the broader reform movement in Iran have had an uneasy relationship. For example, in the presidential election of 2005, the Kurds spurned the candidacy of the reformist Mostafa Moin despite his effort to woo voters in the Kurdish regions of the country. Similarly, the Green Movement has failed to win meaningful organic support from the Kurds. This paper, by relying mainly on primary Kurdish and Iranian sources, will study structural factors that have hindered the blossoming of a Kurdish spring in Iran.