The plan for a Kurdish military incursion into Iran, backed by Washington and Jerusalem, has exposed a deep rift in the Iranian opposition - with some seeing it as the best chance to topple the Islamic Republic and others warning it will unite the nation against the attackers.

As "Hvylya" reports, citing The Atlantic, pro-democracy activist Amir Hossein Ganjbakhsh said Washington and Jerusalem would "commit their biggest mistake" by pursuing the plan. "A large coalition of Iranians, whether they are monarchist or republican, whether they are religious or secular, would unite against these parties," he warned.

Meanwhile, Kurdish leaders insist their goal is a democratic Iran, not secession. The six-party Kurdish coalition advocates federalism, and Shukriya Bradost, a Kurdish Iranian security analyst, said the parties were "open to working with most Iranian political forces" - just not the Islamic Republic or Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late shah, who has been publicly hostile to the Kurdish parties. That stance would change only if Washington and Jerusalem pressure Pahlavi to shift his position, she added.

The Worker-Communist Party of Iran offered a more nuanced view. Nesan Nodinian, head of the party's Kurdistan Committee, said his group would not oppose the Kurdish forces if they "liberate Kurdistan from the Islamic Republic by driving out the regime's armed forces." But the party has called on Kurdish civil society to "self-organize" and hopes to participate in local elections the Kurdish parties have promised to hold if they seize Iranian territory.

Nodinian expressed cautious optimism that Iran would not descend into civil war, suggesting instead that anti-regime Iranians would rally to the Kurds in a united struggle. But analysts like Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies dismissed this as wishful thinking, noting that the Kurdish parties' appeal is "limited to their own ethnic constituencies."

Adding to the uncertainty is Donald Trump himself. Even as competing factions vie for his support, the American president has periodically signaled he might change course and work with remnants of the regime - as he did in Venezuela. Such a move would pull the plug on the entire Kurdish operation, leaving the armed groups exposed and the Iranian opposition more fractured than ever.

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