US Reportedly Weighs Backing Iran’s Ethnic Insurgents Amid Escalating Tensions

As Washington grapples with its next moves in the confrontation with Tehran, there are signs that the US might revisit a controversial approach: leveraging Iran’s ethnic fractures to weaken the regime. Sources indicate past efforts to arm and support groups from Iran’s Kurdish minority—long discontent with central government policies—have faced obstacles, including distrust among insurgent factions and Iranian countermeasures. Still, the Kurdish regions, along with areas inhabited by Sunni Arabs