They were told help was on the way, but it wasn't. It came too late for them, and there were many lives lost that were betrayed. Kurds don't want to be betrayed again.
There's a very famous saying among Kurds, no friends by the mountains, and there's a reason for that, because they have got a history of betrayal, and they don't want that to be repeated. No, I mean, I don't disagree with that, but if this was a leak, if this was a leak that was done purposefully, it was to see if they can get the... If this is a lie... There's a difference between a leak... No, I think you're right, Prasidhar. This is obviously a leak with a defined purpose.
Well, we don't know... Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I know a lot of people in the Iranian Kurdistan are denying this, and I understand. Again, in a situation like this, especially if we're talking about an operation that the CIA, based on the report yesterday from CNN, has been very much heavily involved in, I also want to be very cautious of denying everything.
Now, I think what got people spun up was the Iraqi Kurdistan perspective. However, and I'll just put it to you, Mitch, I would not be surprised if the conditions are being set, or that there are already elements in place ready or already watching at least offensive, but not in large scale. So we don't... That's the thing, we don't know the full scope of this.
I'm not... I don't think we're there, but go ahead, Mitch. I think there's two options. One is that there is an attack about to happen using Kurds that are either Iranian or Iraqi, unclear, because it talks about in close coordination with their support of the Assad and CIA and the air forces of the United States.
And that's the report. Like, it's kind of like, they don't just say an attack has started, they're talking with quite a bit of detail. So either one is going to happen, or this was information from multiple directions from multiple news outlets was fed for an intentional reason for misdirection that we just don't understand something else is happening.
So either we're going to hear Kurds are engaged in battle in very quick fashion, or it's like what you said, it was about something else over there. It's to make the Artesh and the IRGC look over there and show themselves and things that would help reveal their bases, their location, equipment, artillery, arms, because, to me, there was too many places, CNN, Fox News, and other Israel, and other outlets all releasing the information at the exact same time, with quite a bit of detail for this just to be an oopsie, or misinformation by accident. I'm going to go to Gino, who joined us.
