US media: arming Kurdish parties for a ground operation

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0:01 Hello. Today is Wednesday, 13 Esfand 1404, March 4, 2026, and the fifth day of the war by Israel and America against the Islamic Republic has passed. This war followed the failure of the negotiations in Geneva. Through Khamenei's personal lack of judgment, and Araghchi's incompetence in obeying Khamenei's orders, the negotiations were effectively driven into a dead end, and the consequence was war. Now that the content of the Geneva negotiations has been published, it has become clear that in the final stage Mr. Araghchi practically shouted at Witkoff,

1:03 and Witkoff in turn shouted back. There Mr. Araghchi said, "We have 400 kilograms of uranium with which we can build 11 atomic bombs." For 20 years they denied this, but in these talks Mr. Araghchi in effect admitted it. With this bad temper and with the negotiations reaching a dead end, Mr. Araghchi brought things to the point where Witkoff, on returning to America with Mr. Kushner, reported to Trump how the negotiations had gone, and after that the order for war was given. According to the Red Crescent, so far 94 of

2:00 our compatriots have been killed, there have been clashes in 174 cities, and 6,168 people have been wounded or harmed, of whom 2,054 are hospitalized. In the very first hours, Iran's skies came entirely under the control of America and Israel, and in the first half hour of the war Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Republic and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, was killed along with the members of the Supreme Defense Council. Since then, over the past few days, the war has continued along a path in which, especially with America's involvement, not only the missile centers, the drone centers and the drone manufacturing facilities

2:59 have all been targeted, but more than 17 navy ships have been sunk. In this period the military forces of the Islamic Republic have not been able to inflict even a single serious loss on Israel or America. Some say that either they made all that bluster and those threats out of sheer ignorance, or that much of what they claimed turned out to be lies, and that, as in the Russian army, a group of people pocketed the money. In addition, some of the equipment they bought from China at a cost of billions of dollars has proved practically useless. In any case, a one-sided air war is now underway, in which, intensely,

3:59 various centers are targeted every day. One can roughly say that during this period America has targeted military, missile, drone and other such centers, while Israel has gone after the cities and government buildings, such as the Office of the Presidency, the Assembly of Experts, the Supreme National Security Council, the Ministry of Intelligence, Judiciary Building No. 2, the prosecutor's office, the Revolutionary Courts, the Secretariat of the Expediency Discernment Council, and the Supreme National Defense University. In addition, today the IRGC's central headquarters at the end of Pirouzi Street was attacked by 100 Israeli aircraft. More than 15 buildings in this

4:59 IRGC central headquarters complex were razed to the ground. Meanwhile, the five Kurdish parties that had earlier issued a statement announcing an alliance for the freedom of Iran have, with Komala of Kurdistan joining them today, effectively grown to five plus one, that is, six organizations. The American press, including CNN, is reporting a phone call by Mr. Trump to Mustafa Hijri, Secretary-General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, which, of course, neither the White House nor the Democratic Party's spokesman has confirmed, though they have not given a definitive denial either.

5:56 The American press is also reporting that recruitment is being run with the help of the CIA, and that these people are being armed to join the Kurdish forces in the region. The talk is that after they have turned everything upside down and struck all the military capabilities, to the extent that they can be hit from the air, Kurdish forces, with American and Israeli air support, would move first in Kurdistan and then gradually pour toward Tehran. Setting aside how practical such a step-by-step conquest all the way to Tehran is, and

6:51 how many deaths it would cost, and whether it is on the agenda at all, these things are still shrouded in ambiguity. But these are matters that have been discussed in the American press. Although the White House says Trump has not agreed to arming Kurdish groups, various reports have been published these days, especially in the past day or two, constantly reporting on this plan. Meanwhile, the path to Mojtaba Khamenei becoming Leader has been smoothed with the backing of Ahmad Vahidi, Bagher Ghalibaf and Hossein Taeb. All sorts of things have been said about the selection of

7:50 Mojtaba. Of course, we know that Khamenei had been trying for 15 years to put his son on the throne, and now, after his death, some of the hardline and radical factions of the regime are pushing to make Mojtaba Khamenei the next Leader. Although this has many opponents in Iran, it seems that Ahmad Vahidi, Ghalibaf and Hossein Taeb have the upper hand. It is said that they want to take a vote from the members of the Assembly of Experts in absentia, that is, without gathering in one place, and put Mojtaba on the throne. Of course,

8:53 America, both Mr. Trump, and Israel have announced that whoever the next Leader is, they will kill him. News is also coming from the border of the Republic of Azerbaijan with Iran. Several foreign news agencies have so far reported that Azerbaijani forces have been brought in large numbers to Iran's borders and are on a kind of alert. Given the disintegration of the various forces that are now being hit, and the possible disintegration of the IRGC, the Basij and the army, which

9:49 were responsible for the country's air defense and have been badly struck, this may tempt some neighbors to come and tear off a piece of the cat-shaped map of Iran, or occupy it for the time being. In any case, our homeland is going through critical days, and it must be said in all seriousness that the Islamic Republic has been defeated. On the first day it was shown clearly that it had suffered an intelligence defeat, and over the past five days it has suffered a heavy military defeat, unable to inflict even one serious loss on Israeli and American forces in its counterattacks. It has only sent a number of drones and missiles toward Arab countries, which also did not cause serious damage,

10:50 except that it added these countries to the ranks of the Islamic Republic's enemies. In fact, it must be said that the Islamic Republic has suffered a heavy military defeat and must surrender as soon as possible to prevent further damage to the country, and prepare the ground for handing power over to the people through the ballot box, under the supervision of international organizations and people trusted by the Iranian nation, and not drive the country to ruin any further. Khamenei, who in his lifetime dealt the greatest blows to the country, and whose last act in life was the massacre of tens of thousands of our compatriots, in his death

11:45 too, through his final acts, namely driving the negotiations into a dead end, effectively left a war as his legacy and memento for the people of Iran, which so far has inflicted enormous damage. It is interesting that in these circumstances people like Mr. Ali Larijani talk about "we have killed 500 Americans," whereas nothing can be hidden: in total it was announced once that four Americans had been killed. Or these days they broadcast huge, appalling lies on state radio and television, "we struck like this, we struck like that," which seems to be mostly to boost the morale of their own people.

12:40 In hope of victory for Iran and Iranians.