Armed Kurdish fighters try to breach Iran border as regional threat grows amid protests: reports

Armed Kurdish separatist groups tried to transverse into Iran from Iraq successful caller days, stoking fears that the country’s spiraling unrest has attracted unsafe overseas militants who could destabilize the wider region, according to reports.

Iranian officials said the attempted breach came amid a sweeping crackdown connected nationwide protests against the country’s regime, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) starring the response, Reuters reported.

The Tasnim News Agency besides reported equipped militia groups operating successful Iraq crossed the borderline successful occidental and northwestern Iran, according to Middle East Monitor.

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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stitchery northbound of Kirkuk, Iraq. (Reuters)

Reuters had reported that 3 sources, including a elder Iranian official, said Turkey’s quality agency, known arsenic MIT, warned the IRGC that Kurdish fighters were trying to transverse the Iran-Iraq border.

The Iranian authoritative said clashes besides broke retired aft the effort to transverse and accused the fighters of trying to exploit the unrest and make further instability.

According to the Council connected Foreign Relations, astir 30 cardinal Kurds unrecorded successful the Middle East and chiefly successful Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

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Kurdish separatists attempted an Iran crossing from Iraq amid protests. (Mustafa Ozer/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey has designated Kurdish militant groups successful bluish Iraq arsenic violent organizations and has carried retired cross-border subject operations against them. The Turkish subject has besides targeted PKK bases successful Iraq.

In 2025, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said it would disarm and extremity its decades-long conflict against Turkey.

Reuters said MIT and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's bureau did not remark connected the Iran crossing, though warned that immoderate interference successful Iran would inflame determination crises.

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Iranians be an anti-government protest, Jan. 9, successful Tehran, Iran. (UGC via AP)

Iranian authorities alleged the fighters were dispatched from Iraq and Turkey and said the Iranian authorities has asked some governments to halt immoderate transportation of fighters oregon weapons into Iran.

The fig of deaths during the crackdown connected protesters roseate to astatine slightest 2,571 connected Wednesday, arsenic reported by the Human Rights Activists News Agency.

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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said Wednesday helium had been told the killings were stopping and that helium believes determination is presently nary program for large-scale executions. 

Asked who told him, Trump said they were "very important sources connected the different side."

Iran closed its airspace to astir flights Wednesday, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24 with the closure lasting a small much than 2 hours.