{"id":2587701,"date":"2026-04-06T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reveals-botched-attempt-to-send-guns-to-the-iranian-people-im-very-upset\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:06:43","slug":"trump-reveals-botched-attempt-to-send-guns-to-the-iranian-people-im-very-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reveals-botched-attempt-to-send-guns-to-the-iranian-people-im-very-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reveals Botched Attempt to Send Guns to the Iranian People: &#8216;I&#8217;m Very Upset&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-reveals-botched-attempt-to-send-guns-to-the-iranian-people-im-very-upset%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2587701&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Trump says the United States tried to arm Iranian protesters earlier this year, telling Fox News\u2019 Trey yingst that guns were sent to the protesters through Kurdish groups and that the kurds kept many of them. he repeated the claim on Monday outside the White House, calling it an action by \u201ca certain group of people\u201d that he expects will pay a big price. The piece relays Yingst\u2019s account that tens of thousands of Iranians were killed during the regime\u2019s crackdown, wiht Time magazine noting possibly up to 30,000 deaths on January 8-9. It also cites tweets from Yingst and Acyn that echo Trump\u2019s statements about arming the protesters, and notes that the Kurdish population spans parts of four countries. The article mentions that it does not specify which Kurds or how many betrayed the United States.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump revealed this weekend and again Monday that the U.S. tried to arm Iranian protesters earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation came during an interview with Trey Yingst of Fox News, with Trump repeating the account Monday morning while speaking to reporters outside the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very upset with a certain group of people, and they&rsquo;re gonna pay a big price for that,&rdquo; the president said on the latter occasion.<\/p>\n<p>By a &ldquo;certain group of people,&rdquo; Trump meant the Kurds.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the president merely reiterated what Yingst reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now the president also provided new details on what happened earlier this year as the Iranian regime took to the streets and slaughtered what the president tells me is 45,000 civilians in their own country,&rdquo; Yingst said in a clip posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >social media platform<\/a> X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After that took place,&rdquo; Yingst continued, &ldquo;President Trump told me the United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters. He tells me, &lsquo;We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds.&rsquo; And the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them. He went on to say, &lsquo;We sent guns to the protesters &mdash; a lot of them.&rsquo; And so a number of headlines here from my conversation with President Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: The United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters through the Kurds, President Trump told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them,&rdquo; President Trump told me. &ldquo;And I think the Kurds took the guns.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CmAfYJVkIH\">pic.twitter.com\/CmAfYJVkIH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TreyYingst\/status\/2040784586796347534?\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then, on Monday outside the White House, the president made additional news by indicating that he predicted the alleged betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, we sent some guns,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;But the group that was supposed to give &mdash; which I said would happen, to my people, I said it, I called it exactly &mdash; we sent guns, a lot of guns. They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Without naming the alleged culprits, the president then promised retribution upon those who stole the weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know what happened?&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;The people that they sent them to kept them. Because they said, &lsquo;What a beautiful gun, I think I&rsquo;ll keep it.&rsquo; So I&rsquo;m very upset with a certain group of people, and they&rsquo;re gonna pay a big price for that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump then insisted that the Iranian people, if they had weapons, would fight their regime.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump on Iran: We sent to some guns. They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs. The people we sent them to kept them. I am upset with a certain group of people and they will pay a big price. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Zrweng9RU\">pic.twitter.com\/9Zrweng9RU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/2041174948274942068?\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anti-regime protests erupted in Iran late last year. Then, when the calendar turned to 2026, mass bloodshed ensued.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7357635\/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time<\/a>, senior Iranian officials confirmed that the regime might have killed as many as 30,000 of its own people on Jan. 8 and 9 alone.<\/p>\n<p>As for how soon after that slaughter the U.S. attempted to arm the remaining protesters, Trump did not say.<\/p>\n<p>The Kurds, an ethnic group consisting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-touts-bidens-student-loans-plan-many-are-silently-struggling\/\" title=\"Harris emphasizes Biden&#039;s student loan proposal: &#039;Many facing silent financial challenges\">roughly 30 million people<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-says-it-will-occupy-southern-lebanon-after-ground-invasion\/\" title=\"Israel says it will occupy southern Lebanon after ground invasion\">occupy parts<\/a> of four countries, including northwestern Iran, per <a href=\"https:\/\/thekurdishproject.org\/kurdistan-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Kurdish Project<\/a>. The president also did not say which, or how many, of those people allegedly betrayed the United States.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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He repeated the claim in an interview with Fox News\u2019s Trey Yingst and again while talking to reporters outside the White House. He said he was \u201cvery upset with a certain group of people\u201d who would \u201cpay a big price for that,\u201d a remark he said referred to the Kurds. The article notes that Trump was simply restating what Yingst reported: Trump told Yingst that the U.S. had provided \u201ca lot of guns\u201d to the protesters through the Kurds, and that the Kurds had kept many of the weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Yingst quoted Trump saying that the United States sent guns to the protesters and that the Kurds took them. Later, outside the White House, Trump expanded on this by predicting punishment for those he described as the culprits and saying the Iranian people, if they had weapons, would use them against the regime. The piece places these claims in the context of Iran\u2019s anti-regime protests that began late last year and escalated into mass violence in early 2026, noting Time\u2019s report that Iranian officials may have killed up to about 30,000 people on January 8-9. It also notes that the Kurds number around 30 million and live across four countries, including northwestern Iran, but does not specify which Kurds or how many may have betrayed the United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2587702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-04-06T142126.886.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50410,4204,3823,3634],"class_list":["post-2587701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-controversy-2","tag-guns","tag-iran","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-04-06T142126.886.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587705,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587701\/revisions\/2587705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2587702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}