Iranian Kurdistan

And we're seeing this indeed on a day-to-day basis.

If you look at it closely, there was an IRGC man killed, an officer killed, I think just two days ago in a fight in Iranian Kurdistan.

So, you know, there's this drip process of these guys being killed once a week, twice a week.

There is fighting going on on the ground in those remote provinces in Iran.

If you look, for example, in Iranian Balochistan and the activities of, what is it, Jeb Hay? Jeb Hay, what is it? Mubarizé Maradomi, the coalition Baloch opposition group.

Or if you look at Peshvak, The Kurdish opposition group that's aligned with the PKK up in Iranian Kurdistan, they have both increased activities recently.

So, you know, people are funding and supporting these minority groups in Iranian Kurdistan and Iranian Balochistan, the two most volatile areas.

There's all sorts of ongoing cyber attacks going on.

You know, there's this whole back and forth.

For example, you know, we have interviewed Kurds from different parts of this region.

Even the Iranian Kurds, they say that they are pushed is for creating a more democratic, representative Iranian public institutions, not for independence for Iranian Kurdistan.

And Iraqi Kurdistan have accepted and then they have been living with the idea of autonomy, not with sovereignty.

And then you go to Turkey, which was the hotbed of the Kurdish militancy, where Abdullah Ocalan, who's the leader, who's been in prison for almost 20 years, I think, Abdullah Ocalan himself is talking about a confederation of peaceful Kurdish regions, not about Kurdistan and independence over in Kurdistan.

They, they likely couldn't make it all the way to Tehran, uh, without significant assistance from the United States, but I don't think that would be the goal.

I think the, the goal would be to, to capture areas that historically have been Iranian Kurdistan and, uh, and to draw the re- the Revolutionary Guard out so that they would be that much easier to strike.

Do you see other, uh, ethnic groups move into Iran proper? We're hearing Azerby- uh, Azerbaijan got hit and, and they got some, they got some hardcore fellas, uh, that have been licking their chops to go south-

Yes

There are all these internal factions, and it, it's very hard to triangulate who does what, when, and why.

But suffice it to say that if you're trying to turn up the heat in Iranian Kurdistan, you will find someone to give weapons to.

Now, the thing is the weapons are individual light weapons, so there's a really low ceiling on how much problems-

Mm-hmm