The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 3rd (local time), citing multiple U.S. government officials, that U.S. President Donald Trump is reviewing ways to support Kurdish armed groups to overthrow Iran’s regime.

According to the report, President Trump spoke by phone with Kurdish leaders on the 1st, following the airstrikes against Iran, and has continued to be in contact with local government leaders seeking to capitalize on the current weakened state of the Iranian regime.

The WSJ reported that White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt, without disclosing the president’s specific intentions, said he “spoke with partners in the region.” The WSJ noted that “President Trump is open to supporting groups inside Iran that are willing to take up arms to overthrow the Iranian regime.”

Officials, however, said President Trump has not yet made a final decision on whether to provide these armed groups with weapons, military training, and intelligence support.

These contacts between President Trump and Kurdish armed groups took place after Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, amid indications that the United States is contemplating regime change in Iran. It is seen as an examination of whether armed groups, including the Kurds, could play a role in toppling the current Iranian system.

Bilal Saab, who served as an official at the Ministry of National Defense during Trump’s first term, told the outlet that “you cannot achieve regime change without ground forces,” suggesting that the United States could deploy special operations forces inside Iran or in neighboring areas to mobilize anti-regime resistance. He also said, “The United States or Israel will have to organize the opposition in one way or another.”

Earlier, in announcing Khamenei’s death, President Trump called it “a single great opportunity for the Iranian people to take back their country,” indicating that the operation’s ultimate objective was the end of the existing Iranian regime and urging an uprising.