Why does Trump want Kurdish fighters to join the war in Iran? | The Latest

Описание: Intense waves of airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police stations along northern parts of Iran’s border with Iraq in what appears to be preparation by the US and Israel for a new front in their war.
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Iran has warned ‘separatist groups’ in this region against joining the widening conflict and launched strikes against Iraq-based Kurdish groups it described as ‘opposed to the revolution’.

Could the involvement of these militant groups increase the risk of a civil war in Iran if the regime collapses? Nosheen Iqbal speaks to deputy head of international news Devika Bhat.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - What do Kurdish forces have to do with the war in Iran?
01:34 - Why would Kurdish fighters want to work with the US and Israel?
02:35 - History of cooperation between the US and Kurdish groups
03:13 - Could the US backing armed groups from Iran’s ethnic communities trigger civil war?
04:30 - Iranian casualties grow as strikes hit civilian infrastructure
05:35 - Is the US following the rules of engagement?
06:46 - Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba emerges as possible successor as Iran’s supreme leader

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