The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support, the sources said.
Iranian Kurdish armed groups have thousands of forces operating along the Iraq-Iran border, primarily in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Several of the groups have released public statements since the beginning of the war hinting at imminent action and urging Iranian military forces to defect. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been striking Kurdish groups and said on Tuesday that it targeted Kurdish forces with dozens of drones.
There are two things that get brought up in this topic
The Kurds being betrayed: well there’s of course the situation where during the Syrian civil war they were coming under attack from islamist forces, not in the least ISIS, known for killing all the men and boys and raping and enslaving all the women and girls.
So do you think they have a lot of remorse that they accepted weapons, intel and air support during that time?
Of course they hoped to gain backing for their own state and the US leaving them to fend for themselves could feel like betrayal, but you’d have to weigh in the alternative to the initial ‘deal’ they got.
Wrt Iran: it’s funny that a lot of Lemmings seem to agree that the regime of Iran is horrendous. However, when the question is raised on how the Irani people can topple their dictatorship when they don’t possess any weapons, they just shrug (or start about Israel lol). And then when the first realistic opportunity pops up where the Iranian people could get weapons and could fight the regime themselves, … Well you can see the responses in your topic lol
They are now arming the Kurds, a minority of around 10 million people in a country of 90 million. That’s not going to help the resistance against the regime, if anything it’ll rip up Iran into multiple autonomous territories.
Also, do you think the people that went to the streets will keep doing that after the USA and Israel started bombing the cities, hospitals, and schools? Most likely the air strikes provoked the opposite, nothing better than an unprovoked foreign aggression to unify people.
There’s around 5m+ backing the regime, 80+ against. I don’t see how arming the Kurds is “not going to help the resistance”. Can you explain how it’s not going to help them?
Because the Kurds are living mostly in the north west bordering Iraq and Turkey, and the protesters were mostly in the big cities across the country.
So arming one ethnic group in one part of the country will most likely not lead to a revolution across the country, specially when considering that the most important concern for Kurds is to get independence a.k.a. Kurdistan, not to rule over Iran.
But how does it “not help”?
If you want those other 70m to stand a chance, anything that puts pressure on the regime is going to help them
Any resistance fighter that takes out even one islamist is going to help them