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“The Trump administration is signaling that it plans to arm Kurdish proxies to start an uprising in Iran, which is actually kind of an unusual thing to telegraph publicly if you're going to try to keep it clandestine. There have been reports that the US has made intelligence contacts with the PJK, which is like the Iranian branch of the PKK effectively in Iran. Also reports of weapons transfers and so forth.”
“We're not looking to the Kurds going in. We're very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don't want to make the war any more complex than it already is. Yeah, I have ruled it out. I don't want the Kurds going in.”
“I I have ruled it out. I don't want the Kurds going in. I don't want to see the Kurds get hurt, get killed. We've had a good relation. They're willing to go in, but we really I've told them I don't want them to go in.”
“Meanwhile, Iraqi Kurdish fighters appear to be weighing crossber operations into Iran.”