{"id":76583,"date":"2026-03-05T07:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/04\/airstrikes-hit-iran-iraq-border-as-us-and-israeli-plan-to-mobilise-kurds-gathers-pace"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:17:58","slug":"airstrikes-hit-iran-iraq-border-as-us-and-israeli-plan-to-mobilise-kurds-gathers-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76583","title":{"rendered":"Airstrikes hit Iran-Iraq border as US and Israeli plan to mobilise Kurds gathers pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say backing Iran\u2019s ethnic communities could \u2018open up a hornet\u2019s nest\u2019  and increase risk of chaotic civil war<\/p>\n<p>Intense waves of airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police stations along northern parts of Iran\u2019s border with Iraq in what appears to be preparation by US and Israel for a new front in their war.<\/p>\n<p>A US official with knowledge of the discussions between Washington and Kurdish officials said the US was ready to provide air support if Kurdish fighters crossed the border from northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/04\/airstrikes-hit-iran-iraq-border-as-us-and-israeli-plan-to-mobilise-kurds-gathers-pace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say backing Iran\u2019s ethnic communities could \u2018open up a hornet\u2019s nest\u2019  and increase risk of chaotic civil warIntense waves of airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police stations along northern parts of Iran\u2019s bo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[448,405,1012,60,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-iraq","category-kurds","category-pakistan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76583\/revisions\/76606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}