ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iranian Kurdish opposition parties on Sunday rejected a claim by US President Donald Trump that Washington had sent weapons to Iranian protesters “through the Kurds” during Iran’s nationwide protests in January.

Fox News reported on Sunday that Trump told the outlet’s Trey Yingst in a phone call that the US had delivered weapons to Iranian protesters through the Kurds, quoting the US president as saying: “We sent them a lot of guns, we sent them through the Kurds. And I think the Kurds kept them.”

Speaking to The New Region, major Kurdish opposition parties of western Iran (Rojhelat) denied Trump’s claims.

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) told The New Region that it had not received weapons from Washington, stressing that “this news has no basis whatsoever.”

The Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) said it had “no such contact” with the US, while the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan also rejected the allegation, saying it was “not aware” of the claims.

“The US president’s remarks are unclear; it is not known which Kurdish group he is referring to,” a Komala source said.

Another source from Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan said the party had not received “a single bullet.”

The Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), the Communist Party of Iran (CPI), and the Komala Revolutionary Party also denied the claims.

Hejar Berenji, KDPI’s representative to the US said in a post on X after the Fox News report that: “Any claims suggesting that we have received weapons from any administration are inaccurate and do not reflect reality.”

Separately, Amjad Hossein Panahi, a member of the political bureau of Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan also denied the claims made by the American leader.

“Contrary to the allegations raised by Donald Trump regarding the delivery of American weapons to Kurdish parties, we hereby declare that we have not received any form of military or arms assistance from the United States. The weapons in our possession have either been obtained over the past 47 years during the conflict with Iran or acquired through the black market,” Panahi said in a statement.

The groups were previously accused in early March of launching ground incursions into Iran from the country’s western border to join the conflict against Tehran, reports they strongly denied.

Bases belonging to the Kurdish opposition armed groups in the Kurdistan Region have been continuously targeted by Tehran since the initiation of the US-Israeli war on Iran, leading to a number of casualties.