FWIW,
a link to the article in the Kenya times. The war is spreading, or so it seems.
ORAC, thank you for that link.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday said that reports that the US is arming Kurdish dissident groups to incite revolution against the Iranian government are "completely false," insisting that US President Donald Trump's engagement with Kurdish leaders is limited to discussing US military facilities in the Kurdistan Region.
A CNN report on Tuesday asserted that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has provided backing to Kurdish dissidents, paraphrasing one source as saying, "The idea would be for Kurdish armed forces to take on the Iranian security forces and pin them down to make it easier for unarmed Iranians in the major cities to turn out without getting massacred again as they were during unrest in January."
Trump on Tuesday held a phone call with General Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) Mustafa Hijri, a KDPI source told The New Region, lending credence to the notion of the US supporting Kurdistan Region-based groups opposed to the Islamic Republic's government.
"Trump did speak to Kurdish leaders with respect to our base that we have in northern Iraq," Leavitt said at a presser when asked about the topic. "But as for any report suggesting that the president has agreed to any such plan, that is completely false and should not be written."
Her comments echoed similar sentiment expressed by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier in the day, who said, "None of our objectives are premised on the support or the arming of any particular force."
"What other entities may be doing we’re aware of, but our objectives aren’t centered on that."
Article from Newsweek: ISIS may jump into the fray, given their long antipathy for Iran's Shia leadership...
Whatever could go wrong?