US wrong to negotiate, Iranian regime “not trustworthy”: Iranian opposition leader

The person of the exiled Iranian Kurdish absorption enactment said that helium did not judge that “any fig successful the existing Islamic Republic of Iran” was “trustworthy” successful an exclusive interrogation with Euronews.

The remarks made by Abdulla Mohtadi — the exiled person of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, who is based successful Iraq — followed comments made by US President Donald Trump connected Monday, who said that helium had exchanged with “reasonable” unnamed Iranian officials during negotiations.

In contrast, Mohtadi described the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran arsenic “butchers of the people” and “criminals.”

“They are butchers of the Iranian people, criminals, a clump of criminals," helium said, portion stressing his party’s enactment for a “democratic and secular system” that respects the rights of Kurds and different number groups.

Kurds marque up astir 10 per cent of Iran’s colonisation and clasp a agelong past of grievances against the Islamic Republic, arsenic good arsenic against the country’s erstwhile monarchy, owing to decades of repression and marginalisation.

Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini had declared a “holy war” against Kurdish groups, which helium qualified arsenic ‘infidels” and “enemies of the state.”

A important proportionality of Iranian Kurds unrecorded successful the westbound and northwest of Iran, portion thousands of exiles are based successful the autonomous Kurdistan Region of bluish Iraq – location to Iraqi Kurds.

Kurdish enactment for efforts to weaken the regime

Addressing the US and Israel’s ongoing associated subject run against Tehran which was launched connected 28 February, Mohtadi said that helium backed efforts to weaken the Iranian regime, but cautioned that “regime alteration is up to the Iranian people.”

“If the American medication weakens the authorities enough, if they crush the information forces, the subject concern basal – but not the civilian infrastructure, of people we're not for that [...] – past possibly it tin assistance the Iranian radical to emergence astatine immoderate point.”

Mohtadi said that helium was “not surprised” erstwhile the US and Israel launched their subject campaign.

“I expected it to hap adjacent decades ago”, helium stated, “they person been chanting decease to America for 47 years, threatened to annihilate Israel, destabilised the full portion with their violent activists.”

Mohtadi described Iranian Kurds arsenic 1 of the main of the “credible” absorption forces who person been moving against the authorities since it came to powerfulness successful 1979.

“We did not judge the Islamic authorities of Iran from the outset. And we are inactive warring for our rights and for ideology successful Iran. There are besides Baluchis, determination are besides Azerbaijanis, Arabs, and Persian people.”

Mohtadi criticised what helium branded arsenic Europe’s “policy of appeasement", criticising the bloc’s “de-escalation approach.”

“It's clip for the Europeans to enactment an extremity to this argumentation of appeasement and instrumentality a much progressive pro-Iranian anti-regime policy.”

Speculation regarding a Western backed crushed penetration successful Iran

At the commencement of the US and Israel's warfare connected successful Iran successful precocious February, reports emerged claiming that the CIA was moving to limb and bid Iranian Kurdish forces successful Iraq.

US President Donald Trump appeared to enactment an Iranian Kurdish crushed violative successful aboriginal March, earlier telling reporters days aboriginal “I don’t privation the Kurds to spell into Iran… The warfare is analyzable capable arsenic it is.”

Mohtadi confirmed to Euronews that a imaginable Kurdish-backed crushed violative was much of an “idea, alternatively than a plan”, stating that Trump yet “decided not to invitation Kurds to instrumentality portion successful the campaign.”

“We are inactive successful antiaircraft positions successful Iraqi Kurdistan. We person not crossed the border. We person been nether changeless shelling by Iranian missiles and drones — time and nighttime — for astir a period now.”