Smoke rises following an explosion, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 7, 2026.
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QAMISHLI, Syria March 8 (Reuters) – Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warned Iran’s Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent months as evidence their Iranian counterparts would be “abandoned.”
Iranian Kurdish militias based in northern Iraq have consulted with the United States in recent days about whether and how to attack security forces in western Iran, as the United States and Israel pound Iran with air strikes, Reuters has reported.
But Syria’s Kurds warned their Iranian counterparts against partnering with Washington.
“I hope that the Kurds of Iran will not ally themselves with America, because they will abandon them,” said Saad Ali, a 45-year-old resident of the northeastern Syrian Kurdish town of Qamishli.
“Tomorrow, if an agreement is made between them (the U.S.) and the Iranians, they will eliminate you. Do not make our mistakes,” he told Reuters.
Syrian Kurdish fighters aligned with the U.S. more than a decade ago to fight the Islamic State group, setting up their own semi-autonomous zone in the territory they had seized from the ultraconservative Islamist fighters.
But in January, Syria’s new army under President Ahmed al-Sharaa captured most of the Kurdish-held areas in a sweeping offensive. Syria’s Kurds called on the U.S. to intervene on their behalf, and felt betrayed when Washington instead urged them to merge with Sharaa’s forces.
‘A NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE’ WITH THE U.S.
It remains a bitter experience for Syria’s Kurds and a lesson they say should be heeded by Iranian Kurds.
“In my opinion, the Kurds in Iran should maintain a firm stance: they will not engage in any wars within Iranian territory without firm, signed guarantees from the United States regarding the future of these Kurdish regions in Iran,” said Amjad Kardo, a 26-year-old Syrian Kurd in Qamishli.
“We Kurds here in Syria, in particular, have had a negative experience with the Americans in Syria, and their abandonment of Kurdish resistance movements.”
An Iranian Kurdish source said Kurdish leaders did have concerns about being “betrayed” like the Kurdish groups in northern Syria.
The source said Iranian Kurdish leaders had requested guarantees from the U.S., without saying what they were.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters on Thursday it would be “wonderful” if Kurdish forces crossed the border from northern Iraq into Iran, but declined to answer a question on whether the U.S. would offer them air support if they did so.
On Saturday, he appeared to switch positions, telling reporters he doesn’t want Kurdish fighters going into Iran.
‘EXERCISE CAUTION,’ SYRIAN KURDS SAY
Ahmed Barakat, head of the Kurdish Progressive Democratic Party in Syria, told Reuters that Iranian Kurdish forces should exercise “extreme caution”.
Barakat said the decision was ultimately up to them, but he believed that “accepting the invitation of the United States and being considered the spearhead in confronting or weakening the Iranian regime is not, at present, in the best interest of the Kurds of Iran.”
Israel has been holding its own talks with Iranian Kurdish insurgent groups based in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan for around a year, Reuters reported last week.
The Kurds are an ethnic group which was left stateless a century ago when the borders of the modern Middle East emerged from the collapsing Ottoman Empire.
Mostly Sunni Muslims, they speak a language related to Farsi and are concentrated in a mountainous region straddling the borders of Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.
In Iraq, they inhabit three northern provinces led by their own regional government. But in other countries – Iran, Turkey and now Syria – their dreams of an autonomous region or state have remained out of reach.
Also how Israel the U.S. once supported the Kurds before they abruptly abandoned them.
Historical American treachery is now coming back to bite them. The Kurds would be unbelievably stupid to throw in their lot with the US.
That said, the Kurds have never been too clever, always pursuing unrealistic objectives (a ‘Kurdish state’ could never be economically viable). Turkey would not stand by and allow the creation of a significant Kurdish army on its doorstep either.
The Kurds have always been a loud, violent, and generally troublesome minority, detested in every country in which they find themselves.
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BBC POSSIBLE CLOSE DOWN
The licence fee is finished – and soon the scandal-plagued BBC could be too
Story by Giles Sheldrick
The sound of clucking you might have heard emanating from the BBC is the chickens coming home to roost.
The broadcaster, plagued by internal scandal and existing in a permanent state of crisis, finds itself up a gum tree as the number refusing to cough up for its propaganda grows daily.
At some point someone, somewhere, will have to put this bloated Mossad taxpayer-funded behemoth out of its misery. And it could come sooner than you think.
The BBC’s royal charter is up for renewal and, as always, it has promised radical change. But only because it’s in blind panic.
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The trouble is we’ve heard it all before and from next month, at £180 a year, fewer and fewer people are prepared to pay the TV Tax. And that is all the fault of the BBC
.At some point someone, somewhere, will have to put this bloated taxpayer-funded behemoth out of its misery. And it could come sooner than you think.
The broadcaster is desperate for a much higher licence fee, or additional funding from somewhere, to keep it going.
Put simply if the decline in the number paying the TV Tax continues at its current pace (evasion rates now stand at around a cost of £550m to the BBC while another 3.6 million households have said they don’t need one costing it a further £617m) then it will no longer be able to afford much of its public-service output.
The conundrum is that some people use BBC services each month, but fewer than 80% of households cough up the licence fee.
And why should they?
From Jimmy Savile to Paul Gambaciini Frankie Howard and Huw Edwards, from its appalling Left-leaning pro jew nonsense the BBC promises fundamental reform in the aftermath of every regular scandal, yet never manages to deliver it.
The British public are so sick and fed up with the ailing state-run service, that few would complain if it was defunded.
And this has caused such a panic at the BBC
But the number doing so is shrinking so fast “the current model cannot maintain the BBC’s public service propaganda for the future”, it says.
Whatever, we are now witnessing in real-time the inevitable death of a corporation that has cried wolf once too often.
BULLSHIT TIME
Former Reform UK and now Independent MP Rupert Lowe said: “The BBC is a foul stench, emanating across public discourse – it must now be immediately defunded and turned into a subscription service.
“It simply cannot be trusted to represent the interests and opinions of a large majority of patriotic Brits.