The United States will intervene if Iran violently suppresses anti-government demonstrations, President Donald Trump warned on Friday. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that if “Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters,” Washington will “come to their rescue,” adding that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go.”
Demonstrations over Iran’s plunging currency and soaring inflation, the largest in three years, have widened nationwide and turned deadly as security forces clash with protesters. Senior Iranian officials are warning of a fierce response if Washington follows through on Trump’s threat to intervene should Tehran use lethal force against demonstrators. Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote on X that “every hand of intervention that approaches Iranian security under any pretext will be cut off with a regrettable response before it arrives.”
...In Israel, opposition lawmaker Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, signaled support for U.S. action, writing on X that if Washington moves from threats to concrete steps over any killing of peaceful demonstrators in Iran, “Israel would also join the move.”
...Israel’s Persian X account posted in Farsi in support of the protests, writing, “The rise of the lion-men and lion-women of Iran for the battle against darkness. Light is victorious over darkness.” (Read More)
