Trump says US sent 'a lot' of guns to arm Iranian protesters but believes 'the Kurds took' them: report [View all]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 05 April 2026 13:06 EDT


U.S. forces sought to arm Iranian protesters earlier this year after the country was rocked by demonstrations over dire economic conditions but saw those arms largely fall into the hands of Iran’s Kurds, President Donald Trump said on Sunday.

The president began his Easter Sunday with a series of revelations and proclamations about the Iran war, including a bizarre, cursing threat to begin targeting Iranian power plants on Tuesday if a deal was not reached to open the Strait of Hormuz. “Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy b*****ds, or you’ll be living in Hell,” he warned.

But in an interview over the phone with Fox’s Trey Yingst on Sunday morning, the president made another piece of news: The U.S. was directly involved in efforts to destabilize and overthrow the Iranian government weeks before strikes were launched across Iran, and as U.S. negotiators were engaging with senior Iranian governmental officials in Europe. Those protests began shortly before the new year and lasted for weeks, ending in the violent subjugation of protesters by the Iranian government.

“We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them,” Yingst said on Fox News, paraphrasing the president.

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