{"id":1820,"date":"2026-03-17T18:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stevencwelsh.info\/news\/stevewire\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:29:42","slug":"amid-u-s-israeli-campaign-iranian-kurds-watch-and-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevencwelsh.info\/news\/stevewire\/amid-u-s-israeli-campaign-iranian-kurds-watch-and-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid U.S.-Israeli Campaign, Iranian Kurds Watch And Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevencwelsh.info\/news\/stevewire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/iran-map-flag-1.jpg\" alt=\"Iran Map and Flag adapted from .gov images\" width=\"300\" height=\"321\" \/>[Copyright \u00a9 2026 RFE\/RL, Inc. Used with the permission of Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty. All Rights Reserved. Article text also appeared at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-iraq-kurds-militants-mountains-war\/33704824.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rferl.org\/a\/iran-iraq-kurds-militants-mountains-war\/33704824.html<\/a> &#8211; Amos Chapple &#8211; March 17, 2026]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After initially voicing support, U.S. President Donald Trump says he doesn&#8217;t want Iran&#8217;s Kurds to enter the military operation against Tehran &#8212; at least for now. Still, one group of exiled Kurds is &#8220;preparing for war&#8221; just in case, according to a photographer who visited one stronghold of Iranian Kurds.<\/p>\n<p>Photojournalist <a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sedatsuna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sedat Suna<\/a> gained access on March 12 to a mountain base of the Komala &#8212; Reform Faction, an armed political entity of Iranian Kurds based in the northeastern region of Iraq that has recently been targeted by Iranian drone strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The armed group is part of an alliance of several Iranian Kurdish political parties that was formed shortly before the US-Israeli military operation was launched on February 28. It seeks a self-determining region within Iran that would be similar to the current semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They see [the war] as an opportunity,&#8221; the photographer told RFE\/RL, adding that the fighters insisted they are not waiting for a green light from the United States to enter the conflict in Iran. &#8220;They say they can make their own decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Komala party <a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/exclusive-iran-kurdish-leader-says-ready-to-join-war-if-us-gives-support-11664108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has vowed<\/a> the fighters would &#8220;start the liberation,&#8221; in the Kurdish region of Iran, provided the United States pledges support.<\/p>\n<p>Kurds are an ethnic group of around 30-40 million people living largely across mountainous areas spanning parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The mostly Sunni Muslim group is one of the world&#8217;s largest ethnicities without a country of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Kurds live mostly along the western border of the country and make up around 10 percent of Iran&#8217;s population of some 92 million.<\/p>\n\n<p>Kurdish relations with Tehran have remained tense since soon after the 1979 Islamic Revolution when the country&#8217;s new rulers launched <a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/article\/anonymous-no-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass killings<\/a> of Kurds, who were viewed as a danger to Iran&#8217;s territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Today, observers say there are immense complications involved with potential Kurdish involvement in the ongoing war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.sussex.ac.uk\/p138207-kamran-matin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamran Matin<\/a>, an Iran expert at Sussex University, says exiled Iranian Kurdish groups enjoy widespread support inside Iran&#8217;s Kurdish region, but he believes only a specific set of conditions would open the door to Iranian Kurds &#8212; both inside and outside the country &#8212; openly entering the war against the Islamic republic.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, Matin says, Iranian regime forces would need to be &#8220;significantly degraded in [Iranian] Kurdistan.&#8221; Additionally, Kurdish groups would require an &#8220;explicit commitment from the US for long term military and political support in the form of the establishment of a no-fly zone over Iranian Kurdistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, he says, they would need a US pledge of support for Kurdish rights within a future Iran.<\/p>\n<p>That level of US commitment appears unlikely for now.<\/p>\n<p>Amid reports the CIA was arming Kurdish groups in neighboring Iraq, on March 5 Trump stated he would be &#8220;all for it&#8221; if Iranian Kurds sparked an uprising. He later walked that back, telling reporters he had ruled out the Kurds getting involved, saying, &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to make the war any more complex than it already is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Suna says there is widespread goodwill toward the United States among the fighters he visited, with some bearing US flags on their uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>In Iraqi Kurdistan, the authorities have ruled out the idea of Iraqi Kurds entering the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Qubad Talabani, the deputy prime minister of Iraq&#8217;s Kurdistan Region, recently told reporters, &#8220;We&#8217;re not guns for hire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a message apparently aimed at Iranian Kurdish militant groups in Iraq, the Kurdistan regional government has also stated that &#8220;Iraqi territory must not be used as a launching point for attacks against neighboring countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Tehran has threatened that if there is any incursion by Kurdish fighters from Iraqi territory, &#8220;all facilities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq&#8230;will be widely targeted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Copyright \u00a9 2026 RFE\/RL, Inc. 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