US President Donald Trump has spoken to at least three Kurdish groups in Iran and Iraq in recent days. Iran has launched operations targeting Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in neighbouring Iraq as the regional war ignited by the United States and Israel entered its sixth day, with more than 1,000 people killed across the country. State television, Press TV, reported early on Thursday that Tehran was striking “anti-Iran separatist forces”, referring to Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups believed to be based in mountainous, hard-to-reach areas near the Iran-Iraq border. Iranian missiles hit Sulaimaniyah city in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, according to local reports. “We targeted the headquarters of Kurdish groups opposed to the revolution i...