<article data-history-node-id="437589" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iranian-kurds-deny-receiving-us-weapons-arm-irans-protesters" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iranian-kurds-deny-receiving-us-weapons-arm-irans-protesters" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iranian Kurds deny receiving US weapons to arm Iran's protesters</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Several leaders of Iranian Kurdish parties have denied that they received weapons from the United States, after President Donald Trump said that Washington had&nbsp;sent weapons to the Iranian protesters through the Kurds.</p> <p>“We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday. “And I think the Kurds took the guns.”</p> <p>Siamand Moeini, a senior figure in the armed Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), denied the report.</p> <p>“We as PJAK, as I know, have not received anything. As for others, I cannot answer,” he told Middle East Eye.</p> <p>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”.&nbsp;</p> <p>“We have received no single weapon from the US at this time,” she added.</p> <h1>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranian-kurds-deny-receiving-us-weapons-arm-iran-protesters">Iranian Kurds deny receiving US weapons to arm Iran's protesters</a></h1> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/original/public/images-story/Iranian%20Kurdish%20fighters%20of%20the%20Khabat%20party%20show%20the%20aftermath%20of%20a%20drone%20attack%20on%20their%20base%2C%20March%2013%2C%20Erbil%20province%20%28Wladimir%20van%20Wilgenburg_MEE%29..jpg.webp?itok=MjfzJTCC"></p> </div> </div> </article>

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