Trump says he ruled out having Kurdish forces join Iran war

President Donald Trump said he has told Kurdish forces not to enter the Iran war as the US and Israel continue launching strikes against Tehran.

“We’re very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don’t want to make the war any more complex than it already is. I have ruled that out, I don’t want the Kurds going in,” Trump said on Air Force One Saturday on his way back to Florida after attending a military service for six fallen US soldiers.

Israel’s military had been working to open the way for Kurdish forces to take up positions in Iran’s northwest, with the ultimate aim of encouraging armed Kurds to rise up against Tehran.

Trump said he’s “had a good relation” with the Kurds and they have told him they’re “willing to go in” to Iran. “But we really, I’ve told them, I don’t want them to go,” he added.

Airstrikes have targeted Iranian military and law enforcement in the largely Kurdish region next to northern Iraq, where US aerial protection in 1991 helped establish a semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdish administration in Erbil. The US and its allies relied on the Kurds, the world’s largest ethnic group without a state of its own, in neighboring conflict zones.

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