US Set to Escalate War into Ground Phase with Kurdish Vanguard

US Set to Escalate War into Ground Phase with Kurdish Vanguard

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The next phase of the Israeli-American plan for Iran has been revealed. With multiple Trump administration mentions of ‘boots on the ground’, we now see a plan forming for the initiation of sectarian and separatist uprisings to further create turmoil in Iran. Per CNN and others:

CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say

United States seeking an armed uprising inside Iran, with ground operation expected within days

The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN.

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 opposition forces are expected to take part in a ground operation in Western Iran, in the coming days, the senior Iranian Kurdish official told CNN.

It is said that Kurdish groups in western Iran have been secretly armed and supplied since last year precisely for this moment:

ITV News understands that since last year, weapons have been smuggled into Western Iran to arm thousands of Kurdish volunteers. They are expected to begin a ground operation within days.

This is what the ‘boots on the ground’ possibilities likely refer to—there’s no chance of an Iraq war or Desert Storm-level mass invasion, but there could be units of American special forces embedded with these Kurd guerillas to “lead them from behind” in inciting as much havoc as possible.

The ultimate plan is of course not for such Kurdish units to march all the way to Tehran like some kind of Napoleonic grand army, but rather to demoralize and destabilize the state as much as possible in order to effect a mass popular uprising against “the regime”. This entire war is as much a psychological operation as a kinetic one.

Interestingly, this was followed by reports from Iraq that “mysterious troops” were inserted via helicopter drop to the Najaf desert area of south-central Iraq:

Al-Fatlawi said in a statement seen by independent Arabia, that “a force believed to be American carried out a rapid landing operation in the Najaf – Karbala desert in southwestern Iraq, at six o’clock on Tuesday evening, according to what was reported to us, the force entered from Syria, with a number of four to seven helicopters, accompanied by The deployment of Hummer-type military vehicles in an area about 40 kilometers from Al-nukhayb,”he said.

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