{"id":2066,"date":"2026-01-15T03:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:01:50","slug":"armed-kurdish-fighters-try-to-breach-iran-border-as-regional-threat-grows-amid-protests-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/armed-kurdish-fighters-try-to-breach-iran-border-as-regional-threat-grows-amid-protests-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Kurdish fighters try to breach Iran border as regional threat grows amid protests: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 711px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/kurdish-fighters-try-exploit-iran-chaos-regional-threat-grows-amid-nationwide-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d9538ba7-dwd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armed Kurdish fighters try to breach Iran border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Turkey&#8217;s intelligence agency, MIT, warned Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard about Kurdish fighters trying to cross the Iran-Iraq border during ongoing government crackdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Reuters had reported that three sources, including a senior Iranian official, said Turkey\u2019s intelligence agency, known as MIT, warned the IRGC that Kurdish fighters were trying to cross the Iran-Iraq border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The Iranian official said clashes also broke out after the attempt to cross and accused the fighters of trying to exploit the unrest and create further instability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">According to the Council on Foreign Relations, around 30 million Kurds live in the Middle East, mainly in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Source: <em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/kurdish-fighters-try-exploit-iran-chaos-regional-threat-grows-amid-nationwide-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armed Kurdish fighters try to breach Iran border as regional threat grows amid protests: reports<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s intelligence agency, MIT, warned Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard about Kurdish fighters trying to cross the Iran-Iraq border during ongoing government crackdowns. Reuters had reported that three sources, including a senior Iranian official, said Turkey\u2019s intelligence agency, known as MIT, warned the IRGC that Kurdish fighters were trying to cross the Iran-Iraq border. The Iranian official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-opinion","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}