The CIA is working on arming Kurdish forces hostile to the Iranian government to support the US-Israeli regime-change war against Tehran, CNN has reported.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have called for a popular uprising after launching strikes against Iranian leaders and state institutions last Saturday.
Funneling weapons to Iranian Kurds will require cooperation from their Iraqi counterparts, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing multiple people familiar with the plan and a decades-long history of Iraqi Kurdish factions working with the US spy agency. Axios reported Trump spoke to Kurdish leaders in Iraq on Sunday about how they could support the war effort.
Middle East experts predicted Washington would try to use Kurdish armed groups as ‘boots on the ground’ in Iran, similar to their previous role in Syria. But the US would need to balance empowering Kurds with possible resistance from NATO member Türkiye, which views foreign Kurdish forces as extensions of its own Kurdish separatists, who have fought a decades-long guerrilla war against Ankara.
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