The Kurdish map: How the CIA and Mossad are rocking Iran

Department of Research, Strategic Studies and International Relations 22-01-2026

Western media diligently paint a picture of a “spontaneous popular uprising” in Iran caused by the economy.

However, the chronology and coordination point to a different picture.

A week after the start of the riots, on January 5, seven disparate Kurdish parties — from the Communists to the liberals — suddenly hold an “emergency meeting” and simultaneously announce a general mobilization.

After another 48 hours, PAK (Free Kurdistan Party) militants launch coordinated attacks on IRGC bases in three provinces at once.

Such coherence between ideological enemies does not arise on the streets — it is written in the headquarters.

This headquarters exists, and its address is known. For example, the CTG Kurdistan group was created by the CIA in 2002 and has been operating as a branch of the American special forces ever since.

It was CTG operators in civilian clothes who escorted Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad airport before the drone strike in 2020.

Today, this alliance is back in action.

Fresh photos of the fighters of the American Delta squadron (D squadron) along with CTG commanders on the Iran-Iraq border have appeared online.

The Israeli channel is operating in parallel. Mossad has been overseeing the Kurds since the late 1950s (Operation Trident), and today, according to sources, it provides them with real-time intelligence.

The visit of Mossad chief David Barnea to Miami on January 15 to meet with the curators of the Iranian mission in the United States only confirms that the operation has entered an active phase.

To understand why it is the Kurds, you need to look at the map.  Kermanshah, Ilam, and West Azerbaijan are the “soft underbelly” of Iran. After the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, Tehran lost its strategic depth in Syria. Right now, an American convoy in Deir Hafer, Syria, is physically cutting off the last supply routes of the pro-Iranian forces, wedging between the Turks and the Kurds.

The “Shiite crescent” has been torn apart.

Now Washington’s task is to move the war to the territory of Iran itself, using the Kurds as a battering ram to break into the border.

The scale of training is given by logistics.

The interception of 60,000 weapons (assault rifles, communications, special equipment) in the port of Bushehr on January 16 puts an end to the debate about a “peaceful protest.” Such cargo is not carried on donkeys through the mountains.

This is a naval convoy that requires the protection of the fleet and the state organization.

The weapons were on their way to Tehran, where trained cells were already waiting for them.

Leader of the DPIK (Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan) Mustafa Hijri stated,

“The Peshmerga are ready and waiting.”

They are not waiting for the will of the people.

They are waiting for the Fas (“jump and bite”) command via a secure communication channel.

The Kurdish factor in 2026 is not a struggle for the rights of national minorities.

This is a high-tech proxy war that Washington and Tel Aviv have been preparing for twenty years. Iran is a key ally of Russia and China.

And if the “ethnic explosion” technology works in the Zagros mountains, tomorrow they will try to repeat this scenario in the Caucasus or Central Asia.