Iran’s Dissident Kurds Seek US Help to Pave Way for Government’s ‘Collapse’

NEWSWEEK -May30th2025

The head of a dissident Iranian Kurdish movement has told Newsweek his group is urging the United States to foster contacts with opposition factions in the Islamic Republic to undermine and ultimately overthrow the government.

While not seeking armed support, Komala Party of the Iranian Kurdistan Secretary-General Abdullah Mohtadi appealed to President Donald Trump to establish a relationship that would help set the conditions for the unraveling of the Iranian government.

“We think that the administration should have an open-door policy with the Democratic opposition to the Iranian regime, like Kurdish people, like different ethnic minorities, different ethnic political groups, providing they are not terrorists, providing they are not undemocratic,” Mohtadi told Newsweek.

“We think it is in the best national interests of the United States to have a direct dialogue with the different components of the Iranian opposition,” he added, “because if the United States has ties with them, the regime might collapse under pressure from domestic crises.”

And while some critics of Iran voice opposition to Trump’s efforts to strike a nuclear agreement with Tehran, Mohtadi felt a deal that restricted the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program would only further serve to impair, rather than empower, the government.

“We stand for a non-nuclear Iran, like the Trump administration does,” Mohtadi said. “We also share the administration’s policy of countering Iran’s malign activity in the region. In my opinion, a deal based on these points does not strengthen the regime. In fact, it weakens it.”

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