US EditionSource: CIA Working to Arm Kurds to Spark Uprising in Iran
US and Israel reportedly arm Kurdish militias as an alternative to a ground invasion of Iran, with Kurdish forces comprising about 13% of Iran’s population, officials said.
- On March 1, President Donald Trump spoke with Masoud Barzani, Bafel Talabani, and Mustafa Hijri amid reports Israel and the CIA transferred weapons to Kurdish forces.
- Former inspectors and officials warn air strikes can set back but rarely eliminate nuclear programmes, and securing nuclear materials requires forces on the ground, said Michael Hayden and James Mattis.
- Local reports show thousands of Iraqi and Iranian Kurds are massing at Iran's borders as Peshmerga militias, with their offensive codenamed Zhina, invoking Mahsa Amini.
- Israeli and US leaders back a plan strongly pushed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while Kurdish separatist leaders declared a struggle to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran, risking more violent militias.
- Historical precedent shows mapping and dismantling Iraq's nuclear programme took more than two years, while Iran's population of nearly 90 million and mountainous terrain complicate any ground invasion.
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Can the United States rely on the Kurds to weaken the Iranian regime? American media claim that the United States intends to arm militias to incite an uprising against power. "Completely false," according to the White House spokesman.
It looks like the US and Israel want to use Kurdish militia as the vanguard of a ground invasion of Iran. This makes sense, since the CIA and Mossad intelligence services have long had connections with Iranian Kurds in Iraq. But the superpowers have let the Kurds down many times before.
If it does not implode the center, which burns the periphery. That seems to be the next twist in the strategy of the United States and Israel to try to overthrow the Iranian regime or, at a minimum, plunge the country into chaos. Several U.S. media have reported in the last few hours that the CIA is working to arm the Kurdish factions in north-west Iran and is holding talks with its Baluchis peers in the south-east to instigate an armed rebellio…
Source: CIA working to arm Kurds to spark uprising in Iran
Yerevan Saeed, Director of the Global Kurdish for Peace at American University, speaks to Becky Anderson about the role Kurdish groups could play after the U.S. president promoted regime change in Iran.
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