diff --git a/src/platformdirs/api.py b/src/platformdirs/api.py
index 632a6738..96782366 100644
--- a/src/platformdirs/api.py
+++ b/src/platformdirs/api.py
@@ -468,7 +468,8 @@ def iter_config_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
         yield from _unique(self._iter_config_dirs())
 
     def _iter_config_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        yield self.user_config_dir
+        if not self._use_site:
+            yield self.user_config_dir
         yield from self._create_as_yielded(self._site_config_dirs)
 
     def iter_data_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
@@ -476,7 +477,8 @@ def iter_data_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
         yield from _unique(self._iter_data_dirs())
 
     def _iter_data_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        yield self.user_data_dir
+        if not self._use_site:
+            yield self.user_data_dir
         yield from self._create_as_yielded(self._site_data_dirs)
 
     def iter_cache_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
@@ -484,7 +486,8 @@ def iter_cache_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
         yield from _unique(self._iter_cache_dirs())
 
     def _iter_cache_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        yield self.user_cache_dir
+        if not self._use_site:
+            yield self.user_cache_dir
         yield from self._create_as_yielded(self._site_cache_dirs)
 
     def iter_state_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
@@ -492,7 +495,8 @@ def iter_state_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
         yield from _unique(self._iter_state_dirs())
 
     def _iter_state_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        yield self.user_state_dir
+        if not self._use_site:
+            yield self.user_state_dir
         yield self.site_state_dir
 
     def iter_log_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
@@ -500,7 +504,8 @@ def iter_log_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
         yield from _unique(self._iter_log_dirs())
 
     def _iter_log_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        yield self.user_log_dir
+        if not self._use_site:
+            yield self.user_log_dir
         yield self.site_log_dir
 
     def iter_runtime_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
@@ -509,7 +514,15 @@ def iter_runtime_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
 
     def _iter_runtime_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
         yield self.user_runtime_dir
-        yield self.site_runtime_dir
+        # Root's user runtime dir is already the site one; site_runtime_dir reads the invoking user's XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
+        if not self._use_site:
+            yield self.site_runtime_dir
+
+    @property
+    def _use_site(self) -> bool:
+        # Only Unix redirects root's user dirs to the site ones. The iterators then skip the user dir, since under
+        # multipath it is the joined site string that _unique cannot match against any single entry.
+        return False
 
     def iter_config_paths(self) -> Iterator[Path]:
         """:yield: all user and site configuration paths."""
diff --git a/src/platformdirs/unix.py b/src/platformdirs/unix.py
index e7e78b2a..9df05d2c 100644
--- a/src/platformdirs/unix.py
+++ b/src/platformdirs/unix.py
@@ -10,14 +10,11 @@
 from contextlib import suppress
 from pathlib import Path
 from tempfile import gettempdir
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final, NoReturn
+from typing import Final, NoReturn
 
 from ._xdg import XDGMixin, _expand_user, _xdg_dir
 from .api import PlatformDirsABC, RuntimeDirWarning
 
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from collections.abc import Iterator
-
 if sys.platform == "win32":
 
     def getuid() -> NoReturn:
@@ -216,38 +213,6 @@ def site_runtime_dir(self) -> str:
             path = "/run"
         return self._append_app_name_and_version(path, private=False)
 
-    def _iter_config_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        # Under multipath the user dir is an os.pathsep-joined string that no single site entry matches, so the
-        # dedupe in iter_config_dirs cannot drop it. Skip it here instead.
-        if not self._use_site:
-            yield self.user_config_dir
-        yield from self._create_as_yielded(self._site_config_dirs)
-
-    def _iter_data_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        if not self._use_site:
-            yield self.user_data_dir
-        yield from self._create_as_yielded(self._site_data_dirs)
-
-    def _iter_cache_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        if not self._use_site:
-            yield self.user_cache_dir
-        yield self.site_cache_dir
-
-    def _iter_state_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        if not self._use_site:
-            yield self.user_state_dir
-        yield self.site_state_dir
-
-    def _iter_log_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        if not self._use_site:
-            yield self.user_log_dir
-        yield self.site_log_dir
-
-    def _iter_runtime_dirs(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        yield self.user_runtime_dir
-        if not self._use_site:
-            yield self.site_runtime_dir
-
 
 class Unix(XDGMixin, _UnixDefaults):
     """On Unix/Linux, we follow the `XDG Basedir Spec <https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/>`_.