A senior Kurdish official responds to Trump’s accusations in a conversation with N12

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, accused the Kurds in the Iranian region on Tuesday (Monday) of withholding weapons from Iranian demonstrators and said that he did not believe in the success of the plan that his administration forged with the Kurds. In an exclusive conversation with N12, a senior Kurdish official calls Trump’s words “unfair” and “illogical”, and clarifies: Trump himself blocked the plan for Kurdish military action in Iran, which could have destabilized the regime.

• At a press conference at the White House, President Trump said that the Kurds had weapons that were transferred from the United States and intended for protesters in Iran who revolted against the regime.
• “We thought the Kurds would deliver weapons (to the Iranian protesters, Tel Aviv), but they disappointed us. The Kurds take, take and take,” said the president.
• He added that the Kurds only fight fiercely “when they are paid”, and provided another vague statement on the subject: “I said it wasn’t going to work. I didn’t agree with what they did, I said they wouldn’t get there, and I was right. In this case, it’s a shame. We sent weapons and ammunition, and they were supposed to transfer them, but they kept them for themselves.”

• A senior Kurdish official who spoke to N12 responded to Trump’s claims. The official called the claims “very harsh” and said that the plan to send weapons to the protesters through the Kurds in advance was illogical.
• “Trump’s idea of ​​sending weapons to the protesters is very vague. It doesn’t make sense,” said the official, adding: “You’re blaming an entire nation, it’s a very harsh accusation.”
• “Trump’s accusations are very unfair,” says the senior Kurdish official, implying that Turkey acted to influence Washington and incite it against the Kurds.
• The Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah, which is associated with the messages of Turkish President Erdogan, reported that senior officials in Ankara held talks with senior officials in the Kurdish faction in Iraq to thwart the plan of the Kurds in Iran to arm themselves against the regime, and we previously reported that Turkey exerted heavy pressure on Washington to stop the plan.
• The source also added that Trump himself stopped the planned operation by the Kurds to act against the regime in Iran: “He vetoed and stopped the operation.”
• According to the same plan, the Kurds were supposed to invade their strongholds in Iraq with Israeli and American assistance.

• The senior Kurdish official clarified that the forces in Iranian Kurdistan are “still ready for a confrontation” with the Iranian regime, and are prepared to defend their rights by force.
• “The Kurdish struggle in Iran has been going on for decades and it will continue with or without external support. We are the only organized and reliable opposition in Iran. We are the only ones who can accelerate change, no one is organized like us,” the official claimed.
• However, in the words of the senior Kurdish official, a certain crisis of trust between the Kurds and the United States is reflected, after the halting of the Kurdish invasion plan to Iran: “Do you really think that the Kurds will trust someone else’s plan now? We will do what is best for the Kurds.”

• In the first days of the war, Kurdish militias in Iran prepared for a dramatic attack against the Iranian regime with the encouragement of the US. According to the plan, the Kurdish action was supposed to destabilize the regime and provoke a wider revolt in the Iranian population.
• In a conversation with N12 at the beginning of March, another senior Kurdish official, Mohammad Saleh Qadri, said that a large Kurdish force is in Iran and is ready for action “as soon as possible”. According to Qadri at the time, it was a “historic moment for the destruction of the regime”.
• But the plan was blocked by Trump and pressure from Turkey.

• We also revealed that the Mossad and the CIA planned to topple the Iranian regime through a combination of massive air strikes and a ground invasion of tens of thousands of Kurdish fighters who would march from Iraq to the heart of Tehran. Prime Minister Netanyahu warmly embraced the move.
• Within the Israeli intelligence community, deep divisions emerged, when faced with the Mossad’s “hermetic” presentation, IAM officials defined the plan as “imaginary” and as having little chance of success.
• The Kurds are a minority group in Iran, and there are estimated to be more than 8 million Kurds in the country – mainly in the northwest of the country.
• The Kurdish people are found mainly in the territory spread over Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. In some countries they are given autonomy, while in others they are brutally suppressed.