On Facebook, one can find numerous groups whose titles include “Free Iran“. The posts made to these sites are by freedom fighters inside Iran, at grave risk to their lives. Many display signs written in English that read “Arm Us.”
Reports over this past weekend have student protests resuming in 25 cities across Iran, including Tehran, where young women have fearlessly joined in wearing no headscarves, and where the IRGC did not fire their weapons at the crowds.
President Trump stated the United States had previously attempted to arm Iranian anti-regime protesters, but the weapons were diverted and never passed to the right people. His comments appeared to be aimed at Kurdish separatists. While speaking to reporters at a White House Easter event, Trump said the armaments were intended to reach anti-government protesters to help them fight back against Iranian authorities.
In January, during the mass wave of anti-regime protests that swept across Iran, Trump had vowed that “help was on the way” and urged protesters to take to the streets and seize institutions. Tragically, the regime began its crackdown, reportedly killing tens of thousands. Little or no aid reached the resistance. Instead, American and Israeli military operations against Iran began weeks later.
According to investigative reports, the US and Israel had planned for Kurdish militia forces to invade Iran early in the ongoing war, hoping to spur a rebellion that would bring down the Islamic Republic – but leaks to the media, angry protests from some allies such as Turkey, and wariness among the Kurds themselves led to the initiative being scrapped.
After initially proclaiming a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Iranians to overthrow their government, Netanyahu and Trump have subdued their rhetoric about regime change since the start of the war, with Netanyahu even saying that he could not be certain that the Iranian public will rise up. Their comments may have been a ruse and made to buy time.
Had leaders of Iranian Kurdistan been willing, unity would have remained elusive. Iranian Kurdish politics is deeply fragmented, spanning multiple parties with divergent ideologies, constituencies, and external relationships. Yet the Kurds were excellent allies in Trump’s destruction of ISIS in Iraq during his first term.
Most sources are saying this president will not quit the fight while “uranium dust” is still in the ground. The next phase of the war will be to aid the Iranian resistance in attacking and taking down the many armories controlled by the IRGC and the Basiji, the motorcycle thugs who the regime uses in the oppression of the Iranian people.
Arming resistance fighters is part of a storied tradition among American special forces who aided the French resistance in World War II, dropping weapons to them inside France. They were so successful that the French resistance fighters held back ten German divisions during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, saving countless American lives and cutting the time it took the Allies to reach Paris by two bloody months.
Iran is full of weapons stored at various armories and roadblocks all over the country. With the Mossad on the ground, which has deeply infiltrated the regime, and with specialized American air support, the final phase of this war will feature the Iranian resistance taking down the regime’s armories and turning the guns on their murderous oppressors.
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