“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."
“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."
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
If your perspective on international anti-government protests is seriously challenged by the involvement of clandestine CIA support, I have really bad news for you
Arming oppositional forces of our foreign adversaries is possibly the most consistent function of the CIA, and yet im supposed to doubt their involvement in the violent outbreak in Iran that happened just as the US was planning to start a war?
Nevermind how untrustworthy Trump is as a messenger - i would be surprised if we weren’t
I like to think they’re so incompetent they sent the weapons to a random group in Iraq not knowing the difference.
Has anyone checked if Iran has a Four Seasons Landscaping company they might have accidentally given the weapons to?
Or perhaps a diary farm in Wisconsin? Maybe they didn’t know Kurds was spelled with a “k” and not a “c”.
This is beautiful - thank you.
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.
The US (and international coalition) very openly arms the Kurds in Northern Iraq, and through the SDF (YPG and YPJ are DTOs so they can’t technically send to them) in Syria while Turkey shells the aid workers responding to earthquakes. To assume they stop arming the Kurds at the border implies Iran has excellent border security.
An armed Kurdish population gives Turkey something to play strongman against. They know it’s happening.