US President Donald Trump has said he has told the Kurdish forces not to enter the Iran war while the US and Israel continue to attack Tehran.
“The war is hard enough without involving the Kurds,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday on his way back to Florida after attending a memorial service for six dead U.S. servicemen.
“We are very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don’t want to make the war more difficult than it already is. I have removed that, I don’t want the Kurds to come in,” the president said.
The Israeli army was working to pave the way for Kurdish forces to take positions in northwestern Iran, with the main goal of encouraging armed Kurds to rise up against Tehran.
Trump said he had a “good relationship” with the Kurds, and they had told him they were “ready to go into” Iran. “But we really, I have told them, I don’t want them to go,” he added.
Lebanon is at the forefront of Israel’s attacks as Iran’s war threatens to spread beyond the region
Lebanon is at the forefront of Israel’s attacks as Iran’s war threatens to spread beyond the region
Airstrikes have targeted Iranian troops and law enforcement in a predominantly Kurdish region near northern Iraq, where US air defenses in 1991 helped establish a semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdish administration in Arbil.
