Iranian Kurds deny receiving US weapons to arm Iran's protesters

Several leaders of Iranian Kurdish parties have denied that they received weapons from the United States, after President Donald Trump said that Washington had sent weapons to the Iranian protesters through the Kurds.

“We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday. “And I think the Kurds took the guns.”

Siamand Moeini, a senior figure in the armed Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), denied the report.

“We as PJAK, as I know, have not received anything. As for others, I cannot answer,” he told Middle East Eye.

Hana Yazdanpanah, a foreign relations coordinator for the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), said that they still have their “old Kalashnikov that we fought ISIS [the Islamic State group] with for five years and the weapons they abandoned after its defeat”. 

“We have received no single weapon from the US at this time,” she added.

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