Kurds for regime change!

It seems the United States and Israel are clueless after blundering into a war with the Islamic Republic. Making use of the Kurd minorities inside Iran, and on its reclusive borders with Iraq and Turkey, is an attempt in desperation. It also signals that the aggression has backfired to a great extent, and Tehran's resolve to fight it out even at an existential threat is sending shivers down the spine as allies in the Middle East come under thunderous fire.

Washington has previously tried to bolster the Kurd sentiments for a separate homeland in the region by making Peshmerga fighters take on Turks and Iraqis, as it meddled in the region. Reports of CIA sleuths getting in touch with Iranian Sunni Kurds, who form a 10% group in the Shia republic, are worrisome and could lead to mass-scale civil unrest. This Kurd imbroglio, however, could trigger a reaction in many of the Arab states too, making geopolitical repercussions unbearable for the US.

Tehran's decision, however, to target Iranian Kurdish forces based in northern Iraq is preemptive. If Trump's scheme of things is to be believed, the US could make use of significant minorities of Kurds, Arabs and Azeris to gang up against Iranian security for broadening the conflict. This seems so because Iran has successfully opened new fronts in the UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar by attacking American interests, in an attempt to cow down these states into a whirlpool of fear and submission.

With the US regime change ambitions apparently biting the dust, even after the extermination of Supreme leader Syed Ali Khamenei, the horizons of the conflict are being redefined, and stirring the ethnic dimension is like walking on landmines. The war, in its sixth day now, has caused enough reprisals. It has pushed the prosperous and stable Gulf states into an era of uncertainty. Choked oil and navigation supply lines and plummeting bourses bode ill for the global economy. Thus, kick-starting an ethnic revulsion will be a bad advice. If the Middle East explodes into ethno-lingual anarchy, there will be no way to stem it.