Kurdish fighters pour into Iran amid rattled regime terrorist warning | World | News
The long-awaited ground offensive against Iran appears to have begun with thousands of Kurdish fighters crossing the border from Iraq in what sources describe as a CIA-backed insurgency; but conflicting claims emerge about the true scale of the operation.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned about “terrorist movements” on his country’s Iraq border in a telephone conversation with Bafel Talabani, President of the Patriotic Union of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Iranian ministry also confirmed this conversation.
Thousands of Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground attack on Iran, a US official told Fox News on Wednesday evening.
Kurdish forces are advancing
An official from the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan told i24News: “Kurdish forces’ military movements on the ground against Iran have already started from midnight on March 2.”
The same official said Iranian forces evacuated the border city of Mariwan on March 3 to begin establishing defensive positions. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Kurdish forces took control of several hills in the Bayow west of Marivan after Iranian border guards withdrew from the area.
Chief Israeli political analyst Amit Segal weighed in on the reports with the following words: “Israeli officials confirm that Kurdish forces have engaged in conflict with Iranian forces.”
According to a statement by a Kurdish official in X, on Monday, March 2, thousands of fighters began moving towards combat positions on Iranian territory.
The operation follows earlier CNN reporting that the CIA was trying to arm Kurdish forces in an attempt to trigger a popular uprising in Iran. Kurdish officials also confirmed to i24News that forces were advancing through Iraqi territory.
contradictory claims
However, not all parties support the occupation narrative. Aziz Ahmed, Deputy Chief of General Staff to the Prime Minister of the Kurdish Region, flatly denied this. “Not a single Iraqi Kurd crossed the border. This is clearly wrong,” he said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also sought to distance the Pentagon from the operation, saying on Wednesday that the US military was not arming an insurgency in Iran, but stopped short of ruling out involvement by other parts of the US government.
The White House moved to deny reports that Trump had agreed to arm Kurdish forces. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “He spoke to Kurdish leaders regarding our base in northern Iraq. But any report suggesting the president agreed to such a plan is completely false and should not be written.”
