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On the sixth day of the US-Israeli war against Iran, US President Donald Trump signaled a possible ground intervention by Kurdish forces against the Islamic Republic. He declared that an attack by Iranian Kurds based in Iraq would be “wonderful.”
Two days later, his stance changed. “We are not asking the Kurds to intervene,” Trump said aboard Air Force One. “I have ruled that out.”
According to Reuters reporting from the Iran-Iraq border, US and Israeli hopes that Kurdish fighters would join military operations were dashed due to two main factors: unclear messages from Washington and Jerusalem, as well as a sustained pressure campaign by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Iranian elite forces used a combination of military attacks on neighboring Iraqi territory and direct threats to Kurdish communities on both sides of the border to deter any mobilization against Tehran.
A concrete example is the bombing of a facility near Erbil, used by the Kurdistan Freedom Party (KFP) as a base and office. The attack occurred a few days after Reuters journalists had visited the area.
On April 7, Trump declared a two-week ceasefire, opening the door to negotiations and a possible end to the conflict. However, according to Reuters, this has not stopped the activity of exiled Iranian Kurdish groups, which have been seeking to overthrow the regime in Tehran for years.
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