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Kurdish separatist group claims to have mounted ‘armed operations' in Iran to defend protesters
AP via Yahoo ^ | Fri, January 16, 2026 at 8:49 AM EST | STELLA MARTANY and ABBY SEWELL

Posted on 01/17/2026 3:12:13 AM PST by piasa

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — An Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq said it has launched attacks on Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in recent days in retaliation for Tehran’s violent crackdown on protests. Members of the National Army of Kurdistan, the armed wing of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, or PAK, have “played a role in the protests through both financial support and armed operations to defend protesters when needed,” Jwansher Rafati, a PAK representative, told The Associated Press on Thursday. Iranian media has previously accused the group and other Kurdish factions of attacking security forces.…. (More)

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; Iraq; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; iraq; kurds; pak; protests

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“When we found out that the IRGC was shooting protesters directly, our fighters in Ilam, Kermanshah, and Firuzkuh responded with armed operations and inflicted significant damage on the regime’s forces,” Rafati said in an interview in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region. The PAK has also claimed a number of attacks online and posted video of what it said were operations against IRGC targets, sometimes accompanied by grainy videos showing gunshots or explosions and buildings ablaze. …
1 posted on 01/17/2026 3:12:13 AM PST by piasa
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To: piasa

GREAT!


2 posted on 01/17/2026 3:14:43 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Fedora

Ping


3 posted on 01/17/2026 3:33:11 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

CIA probably involved,(if they think it is in THEIR best intetest) weapons and logistics?


4 posted on 01/17/2026 3:53:30 AM PST by DAC21
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To: piasa

Kurds are good guys (for now).

Buy a bunch of Uzis from Israel and give them to the Iranian revolutionaries.

The right of the (Iranian) peole to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.


5 posted on 01/17/2026 5:22:44 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hail to Pitt!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

The IDF uses Colt M4s.

Israel really needs to ramp up production of indigenous AR pattern rifles for the IDF and to arm the populace. Their service M4s are so brassed, there is often virtually no residual black enameling. They are silvered aluminum at this point …


6 posted on 01/17/2026 5:54:11 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam v. communism: Which is worse for mankind? Discuss…)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

7 posted on 01/17/2026 8:04:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: PGalt

What I like is the midnight markings. Someone goes to a house of a high-ranking IRGC officer and paints red Xs on doorway — weirdly like what Jews put on their doorways to ward off the Egyptian curses.
Anyhoo, some time in the next few nights a hit squad hangs around waiting for the officer to show up. Two generals have been offed so far. Not families, just the thugs who ordered open fire on protesters and summary executions.


8 posted on 01/17/2026 8:18:44 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: bobbo666

👍


9 posted on 01/17/2026 8:22:09 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: piasa

In desert storm the Kurdish part of Iraq was “safe”. When the US arrived with weapons at the ready, the leader told them “You don’t need those here, this is a safe place”.

And he was right. So, of course, Saddam’s cousin Chemical Ali had to gas them, lest they whack the republican guard and take over. (At least that was his belief).

I believe that they’re capable fighters, this could be GREAT news.


10 posted on 01/17/2026 8:49:40 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: DAC21
"CIA probably involved,(if they think it is in THEIR best interest) weapons and logistics?"

.... I wonder if this is what Trump meant when he said that "Help was on the way."

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11 posted on 01/17/2026 9:36:10 AM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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