ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Neither forces belonging to Iranian Kurdish opposition parties, nor people from Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, have crossed borders into Iran for a ground offensive, multiple sources confirmed to The New Region on Thursday.

Several reports on Wednesday and early Thursday suggested that Kurds had launched a ground operation into Iran from the country’s western border.

Axios reporter Barak Ravid had initially posted on X that a senior US official confirmed to him  Kurdish-Iranian groups had launched a ground offensive, a post he deleted shortly after.

Ravid later posted that it is “unclear whether a ground offensive by the Iranian-Kurdish militias has already begun or may be launched in the coming hours.”

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, two sources from the Kurdish opposition groups denied having launched any attacks on Iran.

“We work within a coalition that is formed for the forces of Rojhelat. Any movement will be announced by that coalition and no force can surpass it,” a source from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) confirmed to The New Region.

An official from Komala, a leftist Iranian Kurdish opposition group, also denied the reports in a brief conversation with The New Region.

Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee for PJAK Zegrus Enderyari told The New Region “that the situation is currently complicated, but so far no military operations have been launched by the Kurds.”

Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin also quoted one US official that “thousands of Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground offensive in Iran: US official tells Fox.”

Aziz Ahmed, the Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in a post on X said  “not a single Iraqi Kurd has crossed the border. This is patently false.”

Another high ranking source from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) slammed the reports as “fake news”, denying any attack had been launched on Iran from the Kurdistan Region.

Zhila Mostajer, co-founder of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, told The New Region that “the Kurdish parties were formed, in their very essence, to carry out a fundamental struggle against Iran and to secure the basic rights of Kurds in Iran under any government.”

“Certainly, in the current situation they have not been the ones who started a war, but what matters is the right opportunity for them to act. When the Islamic Republic of Iran is on the verge of collapse, the best way to prevent the emergence of another dictatorship against the Kurds is for the Kurdish parties to step into action,” she added.

A CNN report on Tuesday asserted that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has provided backing to Kurdish dissidents, paraphrasing one source as saying, "The idea would be for Kurdish armed forces to take on the Iranian security forces and pin them down to make it easier for unarmed Iranians in the major cities to turn out without getting massacred again as they were during unrest in January."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday said that such reports were “completely false”.

"Trump did speak to Kurdish leaders with respect to our base that we have in northern Iraq," Leavitt said at a presser when asked about the topic. "But as for any report suggesting that the president has agreed to any such plan, that is completely false and should not be written."

In mid-February, a group of five leading Kurdish opposition parties from western Iran (Rojhelat) announced they would form a coalition under the title of the "Alliance of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan," including the KDPI, PAK, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), the Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle (Khabat), and the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan.

On Wednesday, the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan announced it would join the alliance, citing a "completely new phase" having been entered following the US-Israeli military campaign.

The Kurdistan Region has taken measures to safeguard its territory amid such rhetoric, with Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani telling Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday that the Region "will not be part of conflicts," coming as Iranian missiles strike US military targets in Erbil and Kurdish dissident groups on a daily basis.