Iran’s ethnic fault lines offer path for US, Israel

Seeking to bring down Iran’s Islamic republic, the United States and Israel could see a path by exploiting ethnic tensions, a strategy attractive to military planners but fraught with long-term risks.
Just over half of Iran’s population is Persian, but the country of 90 million has seen less strife along ethnic lines than many of its neighbors, despite plenty of discontent against the clerical Shia government that cracked down ruthlessly on protests weeks ago.
Since Israel and the United States attacked Iran on Saturday, killing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran has launched missiles and drones across the region and specifically targeted Iranian Kurdish groups across the border in Iraq.
One guard was killed in a strike on a camp Wednesday, Khalil Sanani, spokesman of the exiled Kurdistan Freedom Party, told AFP.
CNN reported Tuesday that the CIA was working to arm Iranian Kurdish forces with hopes of fomenting an uprising.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the story