Iran Strikes Kurdish Bases in Iraq as Mossad Coup Plot Exposed

Iran’s regime launched an air strike using two combat drones targeting a military base belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) in the Degala sub-district of Erbil on Wednesday evening. The aggressive strike is part of a sustained military campaign by Tehran to bombard the headquarters and refugee camps of Iranian Kurdish opposition factions in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq.

According to a report by the Jerusalem Post, KDPI representatives confirmed that both drones struck their defensive positions, but no casualties were reported as no Peshmerga militia members were on guard at the targeted area during the attack. However, in western Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) successfully killed five Kurdish fighters from the KDPI faction in an ambush and subsequent firefight in the Ghezqapan area near the city of Piranshahr.

Local media outlet Rudaw reported that the attacks continue even as hostilities with the United States and Israel have de-escalated. Tehran’s decision to expand strikes to KDPI bases is seen as a tactical move to prevent the centrist-nationalist group from joining forces with the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), which has been engaged in heavy clashes with the IRGC in recent days. PJAK is recognised as a large-scale armed Kurdish faction with hidden logistical camps in remote rural areas that are difficult for Iranian intelligence to track. Official data indicates that the Kurdistan region has been hit by at least 865 missiles and drones since late February, with nearly 20 drones specifically targeting civilian refugee camps in the past month alone.

Amid the widening conflict, documents have emerged detailing a failed Mossad plan to leverage Kurdish military power from Iran and Iraq to orchestrate a coup or regime change in Tehran. The armed coup plot was definitively scrapped after former US President Donald Trump used his absolute political veto to kill the intelligence operation. During a briefing with military journalists, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz expressed scepticism and reluctance to openly support the draft plan, contrasting with senior Mossad officials who believed the operation to neutralise Iran could have succeeded had it not been blocked by Trump’s veto.

According to the operational blueprint cited by the Jerusalem Post, Israel had fully committed to providing a no-fly zone for Kurdish forces and promised a continuous aerial firepower envelope to repel Iranian infantry movements. Kurdish militia units had reportedly already received advanced weaponry seized by the Israel Defence Forces from Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, along with tactical commando training from Israeli instructors. Political debate continues over who influenced Trump’s decision to reject the operation, with some accusing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of intervention. Meanwhile, other reports indicate that CIA Director John Ratcliffe had voiced strong opposition, even as the agency was found to have previously supplied weapons to the Kurdish factions. Heavy fighting continues to rage in the Sardasht and Piranshahr areas, pitting the IRGC’s Hamza Sayyid Al Shuhada forces against Kurdish guerrillas.