President Donald Trump announced that the United States is ready to intervene to „rescue“ anti-regime protesters in Iran.
President Donald Trump announced in a message on his website, Truth Social, on Friday that the United States is ready to intervene to “rescue” anti-regime protesters in Iran should the government attempt to brutalize them.
The president was responding to the eruption of nationwide protests against the terrorist regime in that country that began last week, a response to the collapse in the value of the rial, the national currency, in addition to various national crises that include a months-long struggle to maintain the water supply. Reports on Wednesday and Thursday indicated that Iran’s repressive apparatus killed at least seven people on Thursday, but the protesters have continued attacking regime institutions, including attempting to burn down police and security force offices in multiple cities. Chants of “death to the dictator” and “death to Khamenei” have spread.
“If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” President Trump wrote. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The protests began last week after the rial dropped to 1.42 million per U.S. dollar and the Iranian regime ousted central bank chief Mohammad Reza Farzin, a sign that “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was dissatisfied with his performance. While reports this week suggest the Iranian regime has yet to shut down the internet, as it usually does during protests, it has responded in part by shutting down businesses and government offices in affected provinces, including the capital, Tehran.
The independent outlet Iran International reported on Thursday that seven protesters were killed on Thursday, but protests continued to spread to new cities, prompting the government to again shut down businesses, allegedly to save energy.
