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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.

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[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

How did arming the Kurds in Syria help against the Islamists? Isn't the current president one?

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip -1 points 6 hours ago

They were able to stop the advance of and largely defeat ISIS in that period in time

The current president is indeed an islamist but he's coming from Al-Nusra and was able to take over with arms and support from Turkey.

Maybe they could have stopped those other islamists as well in the last couple of weeks if they would still have had support from the US ;-)