Trump Halts CIA-Mossad Plan to Arm Kurdish Militias With Seized Weapons After 500 Moved Toward Iran
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Updated · Ynetnews · Jun 4
Trump Halts CIA-Mossad Plan to Arm Kurdish Militias With Seized Weapons After 500 Moved Toward Iran
2 articles · Updated · Ynetnews · Jun 4
Summary
Trump scrapped a CIA-Mossad plan to arm Kurdish militias with weapons seized from Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, after pressure from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
The covert effort was part of a broader push to destabilize Iran’s regime, with Israel and the United States reportedly seeking Kurdish groups in Iraq and inside Iran as proxy ground forces.
About 500 operatives had reportedly left Iraq for Iran after Israel struck targets near the Iran-Iraq border to facilitate Kurdish movement, but Ankara said it blocked the plan through high-level intervention.
Turkey warned the Barzani and Talabani camps, sent deterrent messages to the PKK, and argued Kurdish participation could trigger a wider ethnic conflict among Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Persians.