AXIOS (Barak Ravid) - Under threat, Iraqi Kurds resist pressure to Iran war
Iraq's Kurds are caught in a three-way vice in the cross-border Iran War: - They think President Trump's messaging isn't clear about regime change next door in Iran. - They're under pressure to open the border from Iranian Kurds, who want to fight the regime. - And Tehran's military Friday threatened the Iraqi Kurds if they allow those Iranian Kurds to plan an attack. Why it matters: The Iranian warning —the first of its kind issued to Iraq's Kurds across the border— threatens to widen the war. Iraqi Kurds want to avoid that. - "The Kurds must not be the tip of the spear in this conflict," a senior Iraqi Kurdish government official told Axios. Zoom in: Iraq's Kurdish government, which rules a semiautonomous region in the north of…