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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Friday (January 2, 2025) said that if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, the United States of America volition travel to their rescue.
“We are locked and loaded and acceptable to go,” helium said successful a Truth Social post.
Iran Supreme Leader advisor Larijani says Mr. Trump should cognize that U.S. interference successful Iran protesting contented is equivalent to chaos crossed full region
Mr. Trump’s remark follows the deaths of several radical arsenic Iran’s biggest protests successful 3 years implicit economical hardship turned convulsive crossed aggregate provinces.
People locomotion past closed shops, pursuing protests implicit a plunge successful the currency's value, successful the Tehran Grand Bazaar successful Tehran, Iran, connected December 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters
The clashes betwixt protesters and information forces mark a important escalation successful the unrest that has dispersed crossed the state since shopkeepers began protesting connected Sunday implicit the government’s handling of a crisp currency descent and rapidly rising prices.
Iran’s economy has struggled for years since the U.S. reimposed sanctions successful 2018, after Mr. Trump withdrew from an planetary atomic statement during his archetypal term.
