#middle-east-politics

#middle-east-politics

Trump said it would be “wonderful” if Iranian Kurdish forces based across the border in Iraq launched attacks against the Islamic clerical regime in Tehran. The following month, Trump told Fox News that the United States had tried to send weapons to protesters inside Iran through Kurdish intermediaries. “We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them,” Trump said. “And I think the Kurds took the guns.” In May, he said he was “very disappointed in the Kurds,” adding that Washington had sent “some guns with ammunition, and they were supposed to be delivered, but they kept it.”

Trump has largely given Israel carte blanche to continue its genocide in Gaza, but Netanyahu cannot count on the fickle American president.

The U.S. and Bahrain signed the agreement as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to enhance global energy security.

After over four decades of waging an armed anti-capitalist struggle for Kurdish self-determination against Turkey's government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has declared an end to the conflict and initiated a disarmament process.

"The verbally agreed Iran-Israel ceasefire could be ripped to shreds at any moment; an aggressive theocratic regime still holds power in Tehran."