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They are now arming the Kurds, a minority of around 10 million people in a country of 90 million. That's not going to help the resistance against the regime, if anything it'll rip up Iran into multiple autonomous territories.
Also, do you think the people that went to the streets will keep doing that after the USA and Israel started bombing the cities, hospitals, and schools? Most likely the air strikes provoked the opposite, nothing better than an unprovoked foreign aggression to unify people.
There's around 5m+ backing the regime, 80+ against. I don't see how arming the Kurds is "not going to help the resistance". Can you explain how it's not going to help them?
Because the Kurds are living mostly in the north west bordering Iraq and Turkey, and the protesters were mostly in the big cities across the country.
So arming one ethnic group in one part of the country will most likely not lead to a revolution across the country, specially when considering that the most important concern for Kurds is to get independence a.k.a. Kurdistan, not to rule over Iran.
But how does it "not help"?
If you want those other 70m to stand a chance, anything that puts pressure on the regime is going to help them
How did arming the Kurds in Syria help against the Islamists? Isn't the current president one?
They were able to stop the advance of and largely defeat ISIS in that period in time
The current president is indeed an islamist but he's coming from Al-Nusra and was able to take over with arms and support from Turkey.
Maybe they could have stopped those other islamists as well in the last couple of weeks if they would still have had support from the US ;-)