“We sent them guns to the protesters, a lot of them," Trump said in a telephone interview [with Fox News]. “We sent them through the Kurds. They kept them, so we sent more to the protesters, a lot of them."

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    Imagine if some foreign country was giving weapons to Americans protesting ICE, and said here’s a bunch of guns, go kill your Federal agents?

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    A journalist asked Iranian Kurdish parties. Nobody could confirm receiving any weapons.

    Let’s not assume something is true because Trump says it it. He has a long track record of lying about every issue and changing his words daily.

    Kurdish Iranian opposition groups deny claims of receiving weapons from US

    Mohammed Nazif Qaderi, a senior official from the opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), told Rudaw that “those statements made are baseless and we haven’t received any weapons.

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    Kako Aliyar, a member of the leadership committee of the Kurdish Iranian opposition party Komala, told Rudaw that "as our own party, no weapons have come to us and we haven’t received anything, we’re not even aware of the matter.

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    Amjad Hussein Panahi, head of communications for Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan, also told Rudaw, “We assure you we haven’t received a single bullet or weapon from any country or place, and we’re not aware of the existence of such a thing; what we have is our own.”

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    Hamno Naqshbandi, a member of the general command of the Kurdistan National Army affiliated with the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), said that “Donald Trump’s message is unclear to us. What is there is that we as our army have in no way received weapons from the US or any other country, not even a single bullet."

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      Has anyone checked if Iran has a Four Seasons Landscaping company they might have accidentally given the weapons to?

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      It’s weird on a lot of levels. If it was true. Turkey would be furious that the US is arming kurds. From their perspective, a fellow NATO member just armed one of their enemies.

      They’re probably furious regardless if true, because it’s such an outrageous thing to admit to.

      And I don’t know which part of “secretly arming” Trump is confused about but since he just told the world, it’s obviously not secret enough.

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    Who will train them? Trump’s bombing could also move Iranians to support their government.

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      Because people would never protest against a religious dictatorship of their own volition.

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      Yeah I’m hearing it was before and the so called “protestors” were a mod out shooting civilians. Along with idf soldiers.

      Iranian government was killing domestic terrorists created by the U.S and foreign Israel terrorists.

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      Guaranteed he slipped and mentioned something that happened BEFORE the protests…

      Because that’s what the CIA does. Like in Tienanmen Square.

      The IRGC aren’t brainwashed. It’s a voluntary organization and members are usually posted near their own homes specifically so they have more reason to defend the people, not abuse them. It makes way more sense the CIA did what THEY ALWAYS DO and armed ‘protestors’ after feeding them a bunch of lies like ‘we’ll take care of you if you just do this,’ and incited violence.

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    The move came after the Iranian regime reportedly killed 45,000 civilians in their own country.

    Holy smoke! They keep making their made up numbers for delulu people bigger with every iteration of the lie!