Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warn Iran’s Kurds against aligning with the US to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent months as evidence their Iranian counterparts will be “abandoned.”
Iranian Kurdish militias based in northern Iraq have consulted with the United States in recent days about whether and how to attack security forces in western Iran, as the United States and Israel pound Iran with air strikes, Reuters has reported. US President Donald Trump recently discouraged such an attack.
In addition, Syria’s Kurds warn their Iranian counterparts against partnering with Washington.
“I hope that the Kurds of Iran will not ally themselves with America, because they will abandon them,” says Saad Ali, a 45-year-old resident of the northeastern Syrian Kurdish town of Qamishli.