Israel and the United States transferred weapons to Kurdish rebels operating against Iran’s regime during the war with Tehran, part of a broader effort to undermine the government’s stability. The Mossad led the operation to deliver the arms and ammunition, according to the report.
The weapons transferred to the rebels included primarily small arms and anti-tank missiles. Some of the equipment came from materiel seized from the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah during IDF operations across multiple fronts.
The report joins a string of recent disclosures about Israeli and American attempts to exploit internal instability in Iran and leverage opposition groups to increase pressure on the regime. The Kurds, who have operated for years against the central government in Tehran, are considered one of the main forces opposing the regime in the country’s northwest.
About two months ago, President Donald Trump revealed that Washington had transferred weapons to protesters against Iran’s regime through Kurdish intermediaries. In an interview with Fox News, Trump said “we sent weapons to the protesters, many of them,” but claimed the weapons never reached their destination and that the Kurds kept them.
At that time, widespread protests erupted across Iran against the government. Trump claimed tens of thousands of people were killed during the suppression of the protests by Iranian security forces. The Tehran regime countered that those killed were “terrorists in the service of the United States and Israel” and that some were armed.
According to the current report, the transfer of weapons to Kurdish rebels was part of a broader effort designed to damage the regime’s grip on Iran, relying on local opposition forces operating against it from within. At this stage, no official response has been issued by Israel or the United States to the published details.