--- title: "Tehran’s No So Quiet Campaign on the Kurdistan Border" type: "post" post_id: "13918" slug: "tehrans-quiet-campaign-on-the-kurdistan-border" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/07/18/tehrans-quiet-campaign-on-the-kurdistan-border/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/07/18/tehrans-quiet-campaign-on-the-kurdistan-border.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/07/18/tehrans-quiet-campaign-on-the-kurdistan-border.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/07/18/tehrans-quiet-campaign-on-the-kurdistan-border.txt" published: "2026-07-18T14:28:57+00:00" modified: "2026-07-18T14:30:54+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "Birth Pangs" - "Iraq" - "Israel" - "Kurds" - "US" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **I don’t know how quiet this campaign has been- Iran hit the PKK/US/Israeli infested part of Iraq very hard yesterday.. The duplicity of the US/Israeli backed Kurdish terrorist crew has been talked/written about many, many times for years now. Here and at my censored site** **March 5th of this year** > [Iran- False Flags as Israel Incites; Kurds as Ground Forces to attack Iran](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/03/05/iran-false-flags-as-israel-incites-kurds-as-ground-forces-to-attack-iran/) **June 29th of this year** > [Kurds, monarchists, and “wolves”- Destabilizing groups in and around Iran](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/06/29/kurds-monarchists-and-wolves-destabilizing-groups-in-and-around-iran/) [**Here one news article, from AA, covering the strikes**](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/missile-drone-attack-hits-iraqs-sulaymaniyah/4001777) > A missile and kamikaze drone attack struck Iraq’s northern city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday, triggering a fire, local media reported. > > Erbil-based Rudaw TV reported that the attack involved both missiles and a kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicle. A fire broke out at one of the targeted sites, and ambulances were dispatched to the area. [**Iraqi President Rejects Attacks on Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, Reaffirms Sovereignty**](https://www.pukmedia.com/EN/Details/82129) **Sovereignty, Iraq? That’s funny** ###### [Article from National Context](https://thenationalcontext.com/irans-quiet-campaign-on-the-kurdistan-border/) **Including excerpts – read entirely at link above. Thank you** > At least nine Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Komala movement were killed today in an Iranian attack in Sulaimani province. The strike caps a violent stretch inside Iran’s majority Kurdish northwest, where at least nine armed incidents were documented in June, killing more than 20 Iranian Kurdish militants. Most of the significant engagements were initiated by the IRGC through ambushes and intelligence-driven operations. > > The spike in incidents has coincided with a reported buildup of Iranian forces and special operations units in the same areas where the clashes occurred. On 14 July, Alhurra quoted senior Iranian Kurdish opposition figures describing an Iranian deployment along the frontier of roughly 3,000 Saberin special forces personnel, arriving in waves of approximately 1,000, alongside IRGC Ground Forces units, Aerospace Force elements, artillery, rocket launchers, armour and drones. Ali Khoshnamak, a senior figure in the Komala Revolutionary Organization of the Toilers of Kurdistan, told the channel these were trained and trusted regime forces whose scale and composition indicated preparation for possible ground warfare. The same sources described daily drone reconnaissance over the frontier and approaches to the Kurdistan Region, along with electronic warfare systems for jamming and satellite disruption. > > Through March, the contours of a potential Kurdish front became public. On 6 March, Reuters reported, citing two Iranian Kurdish sources and one Israeli source, that Israel was supporting Iranian Kurdish planning to seize border areas around Oshnavieh and Piranshahr, with thousands of fighters gathering on the Iraqi side and opposition strength estimated between 5,000 and 8,000. The parties wanted air support and political guarantees before committing. They never received them. Turkey, Reuters reported in May, opposed and helped suppress the offensive proposal, fearing it would strengthen PKK-linked networks and derail Ankara’s own process with the PKK. The KRG, for its part, had no interest in becoming the staging ground for a war against its neighbour. **Hope you can see the linked images??** > 🇮🇷🇮🇶🔥 Iranian IRGC bombing Iraqi Kurdish opposition groups including PAK, PDKI, Komala based in Northern Iraq. [pic.twitter.com/PHy1Kpl6TY](https://t.co/PHy1Kpl6TY) > > — RKM (@rkmtimes) [July 18, 2026](https://x.com/rkmtimes/status/2078429063052411050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > NEW: Iran hit ammo depots and bases in northern Iraq minutes ago. > > Footage shows explosions and fires at the sites. [pic.twitter.com/oM8HhBU1ST](https://t.co/oM8HhBU1ST) > > — Clash Report (@clashreport) [July 17, 2026](https://x.com/clashreport/status/2078177252513075588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)