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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      18 hours ago

      It’s on the GOP President’s Must-Do list going back to Bush Sr:

      • Cause a financial crisis
      • Start a war in the Middle East
      • Inflame racial tensions
      • Betray the Kurds
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        “BuT tEh DeMoCrAtS lEfT uS sUcH a MeSs To cLeAn Up”

        (Always referring to whatever fresh hell they were up to the last time they were in the seat)

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        cause a war- to distract from internal political turmoil: epstein files, BBB tax raises, cuts to social programs. its to distract the r voting plebs. icing on top, legislate anti-transphobic laws.

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      Yes. And they will remember that. This is every single time we have interfered with Iran’s government all happening again all at once. Expect similar results.