How a Strategic Narrative Reshaped Iran, Iraq, and the KRG

In geopolitics, what governments believe happened often matters more than what actually did. Claims of a US plan to arm Iranian opposition groups through Iraqi Kurdistan have circulated — but the evidence is missing. No public documents, no verified weapons transfers, no identified recipients. Both Kurdish authorities in Erbil and Iranian Kurdish organizations have denied any such deal. Yet the story still landed. Why? Because in modern strategy, perception itself is a weapon. You don’t always need to deliver arms to change your rivals’ behavior—........

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