Trump said this in an interview with Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst yesterday.
“President Trump told me that the United States sent weapons to the Iranian protesters. He told me, ‘We sent them a lot of weapons. We sent them through the Kurds,’” Yingst recounted the details of the phone conversation.
The journalist added that President Trump believes that the Kurds kept those weapons for themselves.
Namely, CNN announced last month that the US is arming Kurdish groups with the aim of encouraging a popular uprising in Iran. The plan was for armed Kurdish forces to clash with Iranian forces, which would make it easier for Iranian civilians to take to the streets and protest.
After those articles, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told reporters that American goals are not based on arming certain groups.
“None of our goals rest on supporting the arming of any particular force. We are aware of what other entities may be doing, but our goals are not directed at that,” Hegseth said at the time.
(Vijesti.ba)
