Every major Kurdish Iranian opposition group has denied receiving weapons from the United States, after President Donald Trump told Fox News that his administration had sent guns to Iranian protesters through Kurdish intermediaries — an account that party officials and regional experts say does not hold up.

The denials came in response to a Fox News report on Sunday by correspondent Trey Yingst, citing Trump directly: “We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them…. And I think the Kurds took the guns.”

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan said the Fox News claims are “inaccurate and do not reflect reality.” PJAK, the Kurdistan Free Life Party, said there is “no such relationship” with the US. Komala stated it has “not received any form of military or arms assistance from the US.” Senior officials at both the Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraq’s Ministry of Peshmerga told journalist Diyar Kurda they were “not aware of any weapons being transferred.”

Wladimir van Wilgenburg, a journalist and expert on Kurdish affairs, wrote on X that he had spoken to multiple Iranian Kurdish party leaders on the ground, all of whom denied the reports. Regional expert Shukriya Bradost similarly said that “based on my sources within Kurdish parties, none of them received any weapons during Iran’s protests.”

Kurdish groups operate in western Iran’s border regions — far from Tehran, Tabriz, and Isfahan, where protests were concentrated. Movement in those areas relies largely on pedestrian routes, making large-scale arms transfers logistically implausible. And there is no unified non-Kurdish Iranian opposition capable of receiving or distributing a shipment even if one arrived.

Additionally, Iran’s rural border regions are already heavily armed, serving as weapons distribution hubs for insurgencies across the region. If functional smuggling corridors into Iran’s cities existed, protesters would not need American guns to access them.

This is the second time Kurdish groups have found themselves at the center of disputed war reporting. In early March, reports of an imminent Kurdish offensive into Iran proved false — the offensive never happened, and details appear to have been leaked prematurely. On March 8, Trump told reporters he did not want to see Kurds getting hurt in the war.

Since February 28, Iran has struck Kurdish opposition bases in northern Iraq hundreds of times using Iraqi militia proxies, killing and wounding group members. The groups have resisted pressure to launch a unilateral uprising, calculating that they would bear the brunt of any regime response while rival opposition factions accused them of separatism.

Most remain lightly armed with small arms acquired over years of low-level conflict. Despite launching no offensive operations, they have been targeted repeatedly — and the latest round of disputed reporting, Kurdish officials made clear, is precisely the kind of attention they can do without.

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