The United States is “armed and ready to go” in opposition to the Iranian regime if the road demonstrations, which have been rising within the nation since final Sunday, have been to be violently repressed by the forces of the Islamic Republic. Donald Trump declared this, thus widening the battle with Iran to inner points (and human rights) after having attacked Tehran over its nuclear program. The White House’s new interventionism provoked the fast response of the Iranian authorities who threatened to “strike the US soldiers” current within the space, in response to Washington’s interference.
“If Iran violently shoots and kills peaceable protesters, as is its wont, the United States will come to their assist. We are armed and able to go”, wrote Trump in a post on Truth, evidently trying to give support to the wave of protests against the regime caused by the increase in prices and the collapse of the rial:
According to Iranian media and humanitarian organizations, at least ten people have already been killed and hundreds injured during the demonstrations which have spread from the capital Tehran to the entire country. According to military leaders, among the dead there would also be a member of the elite paramilitary group the Basij. While dozens of arrests have already been made by the police. The most serious violence occurred in the western centers of Lordegan and Kuhdasht. While in Fasa, a city of around 150 thousand inhabitants in south-central Iran, protesters stormed the governor’s office, setting fires and throwing stones.
Trump, who had already withdrawn from the nuclear agreements with Iran in 2018, has repeatedly attacked the Iranian regime, also for the support that the ayatollahs have always guaranteed to armed Islamist groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. Last June the United States, in a war operation, struck numerous Iranian nuclear facilities, joining Israel’s air strikes, with the aim of destroying the Iranian atomic program and destroying Tehran’s military leadership in the region. Last Monday, after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US president once again expressed concern about Tehran’s nuclear program. But Trump had never intervened in internal Iranian matters.
Ali Larijani, head of the Iranian National Security Council and advisor to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered Donald Trump to “watch out” in intervening in Iran: “Any American interference on this inner difficulty – stated Larijani – could be equal to destabilizing the complete area and damaging American pursuits”. And he added: «Americans should know that Trump started adventurism. They should watch over their soldiers”, additionally current in Iraq and the Persian Gulf.
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