Iranian Kurdish militias and the U.S. have recently consulted whether and how to attack Iranian security forces in the country’s west, according to three people with knowledge of the talks.
The Iranian Kurdish coalition of groups based on the Iran-Iraq border in the semiautonomous region of northern Iraq has been training to mount such an attack in hopes of weakening the country's military, as the United States and Israel pound Iranian targets with bombs and missiles.
The goal would be to create room for Iranians opposed to the current government to rise up now that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other top officials have been killed since the U.S.-Israeli attack began Saturday, two of the sources said.
A final decision has not yet been made on the operation and its possible timing, added the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk freely about sensitive military planning.
The groups have requested U.S. military support and Iraqi leaders in Erbil and Baghdad have also been in touch with the Trump administration in recent days, they said.
