Kurdish Groups Reject Trump Claim They Kept US Guns Meant for Iran Protesters

Iranian Kurds deny receiving US weapons

Leaders of all the major Kurdish opposition parties in Iran denied that they have received weapons from the United States, after President Donald Trump said that Washington had sent arms to the Iranian protesters through the Kurds. “We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them,” Trump told Fox News by telephone on April 5. “And I think the Kurds took the guns.” He later reiterated to Fox on camera: “We sent guns, a lot of guns. They were suppos…

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