US was arming Iranian dissidents through Kurds while negotiating with Tehran, Trump reveals

Donald Trump spent Easter Sunday making a series of explosive admissions about the Iran war - revealing that the United States covertly armed protesters inside the country weeks before launching military strikes, even as American negotiators were sitting across the table from senior Iranian officials in Europe.

Speaking to Fox News' Trey Yingst by phone, Trump disclosed that Washington supplied weapons to Iranian demonstrators who took to the streets late last year, driven by worsening economic conditions as a result of US sanctions.

The operation, however, seems to have gon awry. The arms, sent through Kurdish intermediaries, never reached their intended recipients.

"We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them," Yingst told Fox News, paraphrasing Trump's account.

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