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中东、唐纳德·特朗普、联邦机构、国家安全
华盛顿和伊拉克埃尔比勒——
多名熟悉该计划的人士告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN），美国中央情报局（CIA）正在努力武装库尔德武装力量，旨在煽动伊朗爆发民众起义。
消息人士称，特朗普政府一直在与伊朗反对派组织和伊拉克库尔德领导人积极讨论，向他们提供军事支持。
伊朗库尔德武装组织在伊拉克-伊朗边境沿线部署了数千名武装人员，主要活动于伊拉克库尔德斯坦地区。自战争开始以来，其中几个组织已发表公开声明，暗示即将采取行动，并敦促伊朗军队倒戈。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）一直在打击库尔德组织，并于周二表示，已使用数十架无人机打击库尔德武装。
此外，周二，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普与伊朗库尔德斯坦民主党（KDPI）主席穆斯塔法·希吉里通了电话，据一位伊朗高级库尔德官员透露。KDPI 是伊斯兰革命卫队打击的目标组织之一。
这位伊朗高级库尔德官员向 CNN 表示，伊朗库尔德反对派武装预计将在未来几天参与对伊朗西部的地面行动。
“我们认为现在有很大的机会，”消息人士在解释行动时机时说。该人士补充说，这些民兵期望得到美国和以色列的支持。
据 Axios 首次报道，特朗普周日还致电伊拉克库尔德领导人，讨论美国在伊朗的军事行动以及随着任务推进，美国和库尔德人如何合作。
任何武装伊朗库尔德组织的企图都需要伊拉克库尔德人的支持，以便武器过境并将伊拉克库尔德斯坦用作行动基地。
一位熟悉讨论的人士表示，计划是让库尔德武装力量对抗伊朗安全部队，牵制他们，以便伊朗主要城市中手无寸铁的民众能够出来抗议，而不会像 1 月份骚乱时那样再次遭到屠杀。
另一位美国官员表示，库尔德人可以帮助在该地区制造混乱，分散伊朗政权的军事资源。还有其他想法围绕库尔德人是否能够占领伊朗北部领土并建立缓冲区，为以色列提供庇护。
中情局拒绝对此报道置评。
‘显然试图推动’起义
CNN 国家安全分析师、前总统奥巴马时期前国防部高级官员亚历克斯·普利萨斯表示，美国“显然试图通过武装库尔德人这一历史性地区盟友，推动伊朗人推翻政权”。
“伊朗民众总体上手无寸铁，除非安全部队瓦解，否则他们很难接管政权，除非有人为他们提供武器，”普利萨斯告诉 CNN。“我相信美国希望这能激励伊朗当地其他人效仿。”
乔·拜登政府时期前负责中东事务的国务院高级官员詹·加维托表示，她担心武装库尔德人可能带来的影响是否已被充分考虑。
“我们在边境两侧都面临着不稳定的安全局势，”加维托告诉 CNN。“这有可能损害伊拉克主权，并实质上赋予武装民兵无问责制的权力，而他们可能不清楚这会引发什么后果。”
一位消息人士称，最近几天，以色列军队一直在打击其与伊拉克边境沿线的伊朗军事和警察哨所，部分原因是为库尔德武装力量可能流入伊朗西北部做准备。一位以色列消息人士称，这些打击可能在未来几天加剧。
然而，熟悉此事的人士表示，美国和以色列对库尔德地面部队的支持需要是广泛的，以帮助推翻伊朗政权。一位知情人士称，美国情报评估一直表明，伊朗库尔德人目前没有足够的影响力或资源来支持成功推翻政府的起义。此外，据一位知情人士透露，伊朗库尔德政党在承诺参与任何抵抗行动前，正寻求特朗普政府的政治保证。
库尔德反对派组织内部也存在分歧，有历史紧张关系、意识形态差异和相互竞争的议程，一些参与支持这些组织讨论的特朗普官员对他们协助美国的动机表示担忧。
官员们提出了这样一个问题：鉴于此类合作需要高度信任，这种动态是否会危及美库合作关系。
“这可能不像美国人说服代理人部队为其作战那么简单，”一位特朗普政府官员表示。“你面对的是一群考虑自身利益的人，问题在于让他们参与是否符合他们的利益。”
美国与库尔德武装力量的长期关系
库尔德人是一个没有官方国家的少数民族。目前，估计有 2500 万至 3000 万库尔德人，大多数居住在横跨土耳其、伊拉克、伊朗、叙利亚和亚美尼亚部分地区的区域。大多数库尔德人是逊尼派穆斯林，但库尔德人口在文化、社会、宗教和政治传统以及语言上有多样性。
许多特朗普政府官员私下警告，库尔德武装过去与美国合作时感到幻灭，经常抱怨被美国人“抛弃”。
“有人担心，如果起义失败且美国撤军，这会增加美国抛弃库尔德人的说法，”普利萨斯说。特朗普前国防部长詹姆斯·马蒂斯辞职部分原因是特朗普在第一任期内决定从叙利亚撤军，马蒂斯认为这是对美国库尔德盟友的不可接受的抛弃。
中央情报局与伊拉克库尔德派系的合作历史悠久且复杂，可追溯到美国伊拉克战争时期。据两位知情人士透露，该机构目前在伊拉克库尔德斯坦靠近伊朗边境处设有一个前哨基地。美国在伊拉克库尔德斯坦首府埃尔比勒也设有领事馆，美国和联军部队作为打击“伊斯兰国”的行动一部分驻扎在那里。
一些库尔德人曾希望，作为与美军合作的交换，伊拉克半自治的库尔德地区能够实现独立，但这一愿望并未实现。
近年来，美国在伊拉克和叙利亚打击“伊斯兰国”的行动中也大量依赖库尔德武装力量，包括承担看守该国北部数千名“伊斯兰国”囚犯的责任。
然而，今年早些时候，亲美的叙利亚新政府发动快速军事行动控制该国北部，包括打击“伊斯兰国”和驱逐库尔德叙利亚民主力量（SDF）。面对这一行动，库尔德武装在美军撤离后停止看守“伊斯兰国”监狱。今年 1 月，美国驻叙利亚特使汤姆·巴拉克表示，美国与 SDF 的联盟“在很大程度上已过期”。
本文已根据补充报道更新
CNN 的内希尔万·曼多和阿拉·埃拉萨尔对本文有贡献
中东、唐纳德·特朗普、联邦机构、国家安全
CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say
Updated Mar 3, 2026, 6:40 PM ET / PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2026, 4:52 PM ET / CNN
By Natasha Bertrand, Alayna Treene, Zachary Cohen, Clarissa Ward, Vasco Cotovio
Updated 23 min ago
Updated Mar 3, 2026, 6:40 PM ET
PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2026, 4:52 PM ET
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Washington and Erbil, Iraq—
The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN.
The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support, the sources said.
Iranian Kurdish armed groups have thousands of forces operating along the Iraq-Iran border, primarily in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Several of the groups have released public statements since the beginning of the war hinting at imminent action and urging Iranian military forces to defect. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been striking Kurdish groups and said on Tuesday that it targeted Kurdish forces with dozens of drones.
Also on Tuesday, President Donald Trump spoke with the president of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI), Mustafa Hijri, according to a senior Iranian Kurdish official. KDPI was one of the groups targeted by the IRGC.
Iranian Kurdish opposition forces are expected to take part in a ground operation in Western Iran, in the coming days, the senior Iranian Kurdish official told CNN.
“We believe we have a big chance now,” the source said, explaining the timing of the operation. The source added the militias expect US and Israeli support.
Trump also called Iraqi Kurdish leaders on Sunday to discuss the US military operation in Iran and how the US and the Kurds could work together as the mission progresses, two US officials and a third source familiar with the conversations said, as first reported by Axios.
Any attempt to arm Iranian Kurdish groups would need support from the Iraqi Kurds to let the weapons transit and use Iraqi Kurdistan as launching ground.
One person familiar with the discussions said that the idea would be for Kurdish armed forces to take on the Iranian security forces and pin them down to make it easier for unarmed Iranians in the major cities to turn out without getting massacred again as they were during unrest in January.
Another US official said the Kurds could help sow chaos in the region and stretch the Iranian regime’s military resources thin. Still other ideas have centered around whether the Kurds could take and hold territory in the northern part of Iran that would create a buffer zone for Israel.
The CIA declined to comment for this story.
‘Clearly trying to jump-start’ an uprising
Alex Plitsas, a CNN national security analyst and former senior Pentagon official under former President Barack Obama, said that the US “is clearly trying to jump-start” the process of Iranians overthrowing the regime by arming the Kurds, a historic US regional ally.
“The Iranian people are generally unarmed as a whole and unless the security services collapse, it’ll be difficult for them to take over unless someone arms them,” Plitsas told CNN. “I believe the US is hopeful that this will inspire others on the ground in Iran to do the same.”
Jen Gavito, a former senior State Department official specializing in the Middle East under former President Joe Biden, said that she is concerned about whether the implications of arming the Kurds have been fully considered.
“We are already facing a volatile security situation, on both sides of the border,” Gavito told CNN. “This has the potential to undermine Iraqi sovereignty and essentially empower armed militias with no accountability and with little understanding of what it may set in motion.”
In recent days, the Israeli military has been striking Iranian military and police outposts along its border with Iraq, in part to lay the groundwork for the possible flow of armed Kurdish forces into northwest Iran, one of the sources said. An Israeli source said those strikes are likely to intensify in the coming days.
Still, any US and Israeli support for a Kurdish ground force tasked with helping to dislodge the Iranian regime would need to be extensive, the people familiar with the matter said. US intelligence assessments have consistently indicated that the Iranian Kurds don’t currently have the influence or resources to bolster a successful uprising against the government, said one of the people. And Iranian Kurdish parties are looking for political assurances from the Trump administration before committing to join any resistance effort, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Kurdish opposition groups are also fractured with a history of tension, differing ideologies, and competing agendas, and some Trump officials who have been involved in the discussions about supporting the groups have concerns about their motivations in aiding the US.
Officials have raised the question of whether that dynamic could jeopardize a US-Kurds working relationship now, given the amount of trust needed for this type of cooperation.
“It may not be as simple as Americans convincing a proxy force to fight on its behalf,” a Trump administration official said. “You have a group of people who are thinking about their own interests, and the question is whether getting them involved aligns with their interests.”
The US has a long history with Kurdish forces
The Kurdish people are an ethnic minority group without an official state. Today, there are an estimated 25-30 million Kurds, the majority living in a region that stretches across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Armenia. Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, but the Kurdish population has diverse cultural, social, religious and political traditions as well as a variety of dialects.
Many Trump administration officials have privately warned of the disillusionment Kurdish forces have felt when working with the US in the past, and their frequent complaints of feeling hung out to dry by the Americans.
“There is a concern that if an uprising is unsuccessful and the US withdraws, it will add to the narrative of abandoning the Kurds,” said Plitsas. Trump’s former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis resigned in part because Trump moved to pull US forces out of Syria in his first term, which Mattis viewed as an unacceptable abandonment of the US’ Kurdish allies there.
The CIA has a long, complex history of working with Iraqi Kurdish factions dating back decades as part of the US war in Iraq. The agency currently has an outpost in Iraqi Kurdistan located near the border with Iran, according to two people familiar with the matter. The US also has a consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and US and coalition troops are based there as part of the anti-ISIS campaign.
Some Kurds had hoped that in exchange for working with US forces, the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq would win its independence, though that never came to fruition.
The US also leaned heavily on Kurdish forces in recent years as part of its campaign to counter Islamic State forces in Iraq in Syria. That has included taking on the responsibility of guarding thousands of ISIS detainees at makeshift prison camps in the north of that country.
However, earlier this year the new, US-aligned Syrian government launched a swift military campaign to take control of the country’s north that included attacks against ISIS and pushing out Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces. Facing that campaign, Kurdish forces evacuated and stopped guarding the ISIS prisons when US forces pulled out of the country. In January, the US’ Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said that the purpose of the US’ alliance with the SDF had “largely expired.”
This story has been updated with additional reporting
CNN’s Nechirvan Mando and Alaa Elassar contributed to this story
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