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United States President Donald Trump on January 12 threatened Iran with “very strong” military options over the ongoing wave of protests, as large crowds of Iranians marched across the Islamic Republic in support of the government.
The protests began late in December as a result of the worsening economic conditions in Iran, and escalated significantly early in January after Trump set a red line, vowing to punish the Iranian government if protesters are killed.
Recent days an uptake in violence, with protestors clashing with security forces. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported the death of 544 people from both sides. In an attempt to contain the situation, the government has cut off the internet for the last four days or so.
Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One whether the Iranian government has crossed his red line, Trump responded with more threats.
“They’re starting to [cross it]. It looks like [it]. There seem to be some people killed that aren’t supposed to be killed… They rule through violence,” Trump said.
“We’re looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options. We’ll make a determination,” he added, noting that he is receiving hourly updates on developments at the protests.
Trump also revealed that will soon speak to Elon Musk about potentially getting Starlink satellite internet service fully operational in Iran to assist the protesters.
Notably, Trump also claimed that Iran reached out to the U.S. and proposed holding another round of nuclear talks, without providing more details.
“I think they’re tired of being beat up by the United States,” Trump said. “Iran wants to negotiate.” He added: “The meeting is being set up, but we may have to act because of what’s happening before the meeting.”
Following Trump’s latest threats, large crowds of Iranians gathered in Tehran and all other cities across the Islamic Republic to show support to the government. In footage aired by state media, many can be heard shouting “Death to America,” a slogan that first emerged from Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Unshaken by Trump’s latest threat, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told foreign diplomats in Tehran that “the situation has come under total control.”
“That’s why the demonstrations turned violent and bloody to give an excuse to the American president to intervene,” Araghchi said, in comments carried by Al Jazeera.
In other remarks from the diplomatic meeting carried by state TV, Araghchi said that “the Islamic Republic of Iran is not seeking war but is fully prepared for war.”
“We are also ready for negotiations but these negotiations should be fair, with equal rights and based on mutual respect,” he says.
While the Iranian government remains calm, the situation in the Islamic Republic appears to be heading towards more escalation.
Reza Pahlavi, an Iranian opposition figure and son of the deposed shah, declared a new stage in the effort “to overthrow the Islamic Republic,” calling on protestors to attack government institutions.
In recent days, Pahlavi was widely promoted by mainstream media in the West as the leader of the protests in Iran, although many sections of the deeply divided Iranian opposition do not support him, and do wish to see his family returning to power.
“In addition to seizing and holding the central streets of cities, all institutions and apparatuses responsible for the regime’s false propaganda and cutting off communications are considered legitimate targets,” Pahlavi said in a video statement.
“Government employees, and the armed and security forces, have the opportunity to join the people… or choose complicity with the murderers of the nation,” the self-declared shah continued.
“We are on the verge of reclaiming our dear Iran from the Islamic Republic. Khamenei and his regime have suffered several heavy blows from you, and we must not give them a chance to catch their breath again,” he added.
So far, protests have been reported in at least 512 locations across 180 cities in all 31 provinces of Iran. More than 10,000 people have been allegedly arrested, at least some were agents of the Israeli Mossad spy agency, according to Iranian authorities.
Despite the threats from the U.S. and focused coverage by the mainstream media, the current protests are still smaller in scale than the Mahsa Amini protests of 2022, and can’t be compared to the mass protest of 2009, which were called at the time the Green Movement. That’s being said, the protests are clearly much more violent.
Iran lost much of its influence in the Middle East in the last few years, with its allies in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria defeated, only to then face a blow directly from Israel during the 12-day war. The current unrest in the Islamic Republic is a direct result of this.
Despite facing a very serious threat, the Iranian government remains hesitant in its approach to both internal affairs, and foreign relations.
While the reformist government has shown a level of openness recently, it is yet to adopt much needed large-scale reforms. At the same time, it refuses to make any real changes to its foreign relation approach, despite showing openness to talks with the U.S.
The intention to intervene in Iran by the U.S. and others, including Israel, is clearer than ever. If the Islamic Republic fails to take decisive action on all levels, first and foremost diplomatically, the government will likely go down. This will, without a doubt, result in a civil war that will fragment Iran forever, especially that the opposition is deeply divided, with ethnic tensions involving Arabs, Kurds and Azaris as one of the main factors.
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if iran falls, it would mean this world belong to the zionisist and the jews. it’s not worth living on this planet and we should hope some planetary tragedy destroy us all including the us empire and the machiavellic jews and their brethren including all flavor of christians. the only good thing about christianism its that implies that men’s are cannibals by design, “eat my meat and drink my blood” the machiavellic jews first psychological weapon to succeeded after million fails.
if iran falls also it would men that russia will fall for sure, sooner or later russia will be the next to crack down and dissapear. iran goverment must survive no matter what and the jews should be relocated to us in america and leave the middle east once for all. then peace will return to the middle east.
there’s been no peace in the middle east since the crusades trumo created history by
getting them tk agree to the abraham accords but biden wrecked that.
causing all of the disaster .by funding iran to fund hamas which i think he did quite irresponsibly. none of oct7th and what followed would have happened if biden had never been president.
recent months saw a large u.s. military build up in the caribbean, with socom deploying assists in puerto rico and near trinidad and tobago…………………………… https://psee.io/8jqu9r
yes i know, but there were the christians in the crusades the invaders, and even today behind the us empire trying to conquer a land that it was won by the muslims and the prophet. ancient wars, are still alive even today.
no they weren’t christians they were catholics jews and moslems there were no protestants then and the greeks never seem to get involved in all of that.
what the us empire are doing on the middle east region right now? have you realize how blind you are? catholic jews were the precursors of the protestants. and all the thousand sects of christianity calls the others flavor of christianism infidels. grown up and read friedrich nietzsche to learn about the priests sects. stop believing your flavor of christianity is better than the others. you are cannibal anyways disguised as a humble sheep who spreads the virus.
don’t be so naive you twit just making stories up to suit your fantasies martin luther was a catholic german priest you fool john knox was a scots etcera you’re just a total fantasist.
that’s right but the fantasist propganda artists, for the anti democratic anti american powers of empire don’t care about the facts they like the lies
the prophet didn’t even exist until around the same time rome turned christian around 500 years after the death of jesus. coincidentally of course meanwhile its what year in tbe jewish calendar??
i can bet the same thing about a jew carpenter… don’t be a moron, this is about religions sects, today’s transformed into institutions, it was never about belief, or creeds or even reality.
don’t be silly. go and do some basic primary school history lessons
why should we desire peace when there is injustice
no justice no peace.
typical you would want want injustice as agent of mitary industrials profiteering and desire for totalitarian power.
that’s right they don’t want trumps legacy to exist they will sabotage everything he does to spite him basicallythats who they are
death to khameini. down with the islamic regime! death to the dictator
death to the west and their foul empire of jews
hahahaaha good one
death to anti semitic gates of persians jews turks and sao on death to slave drivers genocidal eugenecists and psychopathic maglalononaical despotic dictators who hate democracy freedom and free will.
hahaha i guess you are out of control, did you take your pills? maybe you are james holms in disguise.
death to khameini
death to the religion of ☪️ancer
the truth is that islam is holding iran back. young people are beholden to a backwards theocracy without any choice. at least in israel people have a choice
cleanse the earth of joo killers, swindlers, pimps, liars and rapists.
calm down russia has never fully regained sovereignty after the bolshevics took over in the name of the banks and europe has lost sovereignty during the world wars if not before that.
we lived in that world our entire lifes and not that bad at least in europe.
of course its not fair to the countries chosen to fall like iraq, yugoslavia, afghanistan, lybia, syria, ukraine, yemen. but it is what it is. for the bankers its all just a big boardgame.
they took over directed by england. the english government protected lenin when he was the most wanted terrorist on earth they hid him kept him. cosy with his girlfriend and some accessories in a nice little cottage on the thames they were co offenders in his terrorism they protected him as accessories of terrorists then they sent him. by train protected by the red cross flag into russia when they knew the time was right.
yes the city of new york, being the roman capital of england, then now america, loaded trotsky up with millions in us dollars too, and they both met up in the vatican’s sister city in switzerland to organise their” banking “like hitler did.
grow up most jews dont live in israel now. stop taking rubbish and pretending you don’t know anything we all know england set the jews up in israel. england moved the palestinians into gaza, not the jews we all know they decided which jewish refugees could go to canada australia england anerica and which could get lucky and settle in england’s kingdom of israel.
death to the dictator
what a load of rubbish typical sf anti semitic propagandas for
tbe enemiesof american democracy . .
enemy of the american democracy? really… where was the last time did you vote for go to a war? or to invade a weaker country? when did you vote for establish the taxes to pay? or to reform the constitution? please don’t come here preaching like the sheeps. democracy is a tool to weaken your adversaries and give them a recipe for become a colony of a world power.
pleases grow up and learn the basics the constitution doesn’t grant the people rights to hold referendums on going to war anywhere on earth.
please try to conduct realistic commentaries not fantasies of chd like contents.dont be stupid rhetorical. as if anyone would actually think a government is going to give people a referendum on if they should pay taxes incredible
oooo really? maybe i should learn from you.
btw ramese replica you might have heard “no taxation without representation” was what created the world’s first real democratic nation.
an attack upon despotism of kings.
you live in xix century, the us empire started in the xx century and only after ww2 became the world power, after ussr collapse at the end of the 80’s, the us empire transform itself in the supreme hegemon… the skull and bones, the sects, the rafical liberal democracy age, the arab spring, the russia contention… we cannot live on a world we could not dictate others what to do. “supreme hegemon”
an ayatollah that oppresses and massacres his own people is a mass murderer dictator that deserves a penalty punishable by public hanging.
death to the dictator. death to khameini 🖕
death to your despotism and inciting violence.
death to violen☪️e
death to ☪️haos
death to ☪️ancer
deat to stupid zio bitchs 🖕✡️🖕
death to the joo kiddie killers.
death to khameini.
death to islamic terrorists scums.
down with the dictator
🖕🖕🖕🖕detah to you and all your beloved ones! ameen.
gli ebrei commettono un errore la religione possono pregare chi vogliono uno stato biblico è una follia, hanno una cosa bella l’amore per il sapere e questo amore per il sapere i gentili lo hanno dimenticato e vivono il nichilismo passivo che li sta distruggendo.
quotation:
turkey’s economic situation is very bad too,
its worst than iran,
after iran turkish people may go out to the streets for protesting erdog for high taxes. erdog must be careful, people of turkey are not happy with the economy
relax damn! 😂 but iran is the last country resisting and opposing us-zionist hegemony in the region, and o me end the last few in the world. and the last and only country to technically outlast & decisively hurt israel in major combat or military conflict. then they can focus their attention & efforts on russia, north korea and china
iran could not fall, iran must survive. ancient persia could not be part of the decease of the western world. the fight of gog vs magog could be stopped if everybody stays in their own region with some kind of arbiter (u.n didn’t fit this purpose). but christians are cannibals and expansionist by the designers of christianity (the vatican and catholics) the others flavors are also very expansionist, always wanted to take more land.
hahaha haha everyone who went to schools knows exactly who put the jews next to the islamic fundamentalists and for exactly what purpose but not you ramses types of naive gullible basucally suckers. you take every bait as desired react totally predictably. like children do.
don’t need to insult others? did you take your medication.
i thought you were smart. you have too much hate and rage, are you a teenager without proper education.
the jooz are a curse on all humanity.
you’d be one of those types of hateful genocidal nutters
death to ☪️ancer.
down with ayatollah regime
death to khameini
death to ✡️ssholes. 🖕🖕🐷🖕🖕
trump cares so much for 500 iranians. that is why he ignored the death of 20,000 palestinian children
toral lies as usual from the same anti semitic sources.
doing youself dna test and you realize mongolian, slavic, turkic segments of your khazarian dna
after that you execute suicide because your construct of ubermensch “semite” collapsed
correct totally correct and the moderators here delete comments except for ramses anti american anti semitic anti democratic propagandas, lies and falsehoods l tbe time everyday.
death to the cold blooded islamic dictator
death to khameini.
death to ☪️ancer
jooz f off back to khazaria.
death to satanyahoo and dwath cult of ✡️ cancer.
load of blocks fro.. ramses as usual. denial of the facts and peddling falsehoods is your favourite pastime we all know oy america sent food aid, no one else and we know hamas tried to steal it ir stop it arriving. we know you would t have donated one cent of your income to provide one crumb.
the murderous islamic republic of iran will die together with kamenei and his regime
cut the crap ramses we jl know its you trying to be disingenuous
death to the islamic republic
death to the regime
death to the dictator
death to all islamic nazi terrorists.
ayatollah must die!
death to the jooz and all their whores.
talmudic jews are worst scum on the earth!
ramses tom sawyer finklestein mekkelstein dumpstein blowing yo trumpet again.
dear bibi “netanyahu” mileikowsky you are fake semite
death to khomeini
down with the dictator.
down with the islamic regime
death to you and your ✡️hore.
“if iran fails to take decisive active, first and foremost, diplomatically” the gov will likely go down” sounds like sf is drinking orange kool ade again. diplomacy with who? there are more people in the streets for the gov, than against it. those against have to be young, western brainwashed gen z idiots doing the same as stupidity as before. maybe they should look at minnesota in u.s. where police shoot unarmed, peaceful mothers in the street.
thars obama who had the young mum shot to death she was unarmed aand harmless .remember?allegedly according to fimed footage
and married lesbian couples who deliberately use their vehicles as a weapon to stop law enforcement and then tey to run an officer down aren’t innocent .
and three guesses which anti semitic person funded the protests.
they, the team trollope know perfectly well who funds anti american attacks on democracy equality and freedom..
that’s right and the extreme blatant liars will deny the truth everytime as hypocrites deceivers and dishonest and manipulative types always do like the votes here too imo
death to the dictator. death to khameini. down with the islamic regime
death to. despotic anti democratic autocratic imperialists of evil.
🖕🖕🖕🖕✡️🖕🖕🖕🐖🐖
no other country in the world would tolerate what’s been going on in iran. they’re
living like its another century .do they have freedom to be any religion they like? can they wear what they want to wear .? can women drive a car ?
can a husband divorce his wife by repeating 3 times i divorce you ?
yes, stupid the do have the freedom to practice other religion. there rae 1,000of jews living tere and they ain’t muslim, ziobot. do they shoot unarmed mothers of 3 in the face/ no does trump ? yes. by all means go with trump, the liar, zionist war monger, child rapist.
what a filthy disgusting dishonest despicable lying cretinous entirety you are foul and disgusting every single day always reinforced by sf moderators too .ramses the most dirty minded troll on the planet quite likely .allegedly
take a hike to fantasy island bird brain
death to the oppressor. the dictator.
death to the ayatollah regime
death to khameini. down with the islamic republic 🖕
death to death to your kind.
jews are most vindictive, sadistic tribe in the world
islam is a racist rapist religion that must be killed like cancer.
and so, khameini must be killed and murdered on the streets like what he did to his own people.
death to you and to your ✡️adistic cult!
disgusting americunt inferior that tolerates ugly dystopia
empowering women’s to weaken your adversaries, great tactics my friend but no, iran knows what to do, they do not let the empire of exceptionals and the big nose breed to infiltrate them and take apart their goverment. all those thing that you want, do it in your land why do you want to impose it in iran?
they’re the empire you idiot of islam what a deadbeat by the way ignoramus persians are semitic you twit. unlike you. you’re not one of them and fyi dick bead i am. iranian.
yes, especially the us would not tolerate it if protests of this order maybe heated up from foreign countries…
a person in car trying to drive away from a police control getting killed – this video from iran would have caused a shitstorm in western media
liar straight out typical liar. she was not trying to drive away from any problem. she drove straight at him. for no reason of needing to “flee” at all. zero risk to her or her wife’s safety were involved at all.
can you really walk down the street naked? drive any vehicle you like, go as fast as you want on an empty road? you grew up with the rules of your society so learned to live within the restrictions, they agreed on the rules that suit them and will change them when they decide.
can any palestinian lead a normal life without being murdered, tortured, raped and starved by satanic joo monsters. the acme of evil.
no tbey do t have freedoms no they can’t wead whatever they like no they can’t live like anerican or english or aussies or even jews can. yes they are repressed yes they do leave whenever they can yes they are all living in america and england and australia canada etc where they can be treated as equal and free.
that’s right and the naysayers are nazi types who oy pretend to defend them. just to be anti democratic anti american
ok, i get the 504 error, meaning mossad doesn’t like the comment. either sf is useless at their own security or they’re openly being used. judging from the ziobots, it looks like the latter. they are now intercepting comments during server handoff…which of course means they monitor keystrokes on page. boy they are really going after it, an attack must be soon.
it looks lik ethey don’t like th epart i wrote about raping little boys in israel and the white house.
you’re really unbelievable. pathetic actually you just make stuff
up. ill bet you dont kow of one little boy that’s ever been raped in the white house or anyone who’s been raped in israel.
exactly ramses just makes up stories to suit being anti american democracy as trolls do as if other countries aren’t famous for having child brides, so he has to say boys to pretend he doesn’t know it as deceivers do.
sure as if you know anyone who’s been raped as a, little boy anywhere except on the internet.
don’t even bother with attempts at passive aggressive anti semitism here pal when everyone knows the whole site couldn’t be more anti semitic ..hate speech inciting genocide all day everyday for years consistently.
what jooz like you can never understand is that when you do bad things, people say bad things about you.
israel is the most anti semitic nation in the world. look what they do to palestinian semites. you need to understand the terminology you are using. jews hijacking terms for themselves – typical jewish low behaviors
islam = ☪️ancer
delete khameini =deleting ☪️ancer
death to talmudic ✡️hore!
death to s✡️ines!
death to ✡️arlocks and the dajjal!
death to ✡️eavers!
iran venezuela siryah they all trust in the great allie the great army of russia lol
they did nothing to help putin ..if iran syria china had sent their armies into russias situation that could have assisted in creating successful peaceful negotiations but they all did nothing .imo with intentions too , i suspect. all in it together to deceive the worlds deadshit sheep and stir the pot for war profits allegedly .very successfully.
actually iran did a lot to help russia by supplying russia with the drones putin and his government forgot to invest in.
having over 500 people killed doesn’t indicate a government remaining calm. not in my book .
and the whole thing is that trump had just gotten the abraham accords signed too
they do not want peace .absolutely not .it wouldn’t make any difference what anyone tried to do. imo .
500 killed is a fake news. bodies in the streets and in warehouses. all because of khameini.
death to the dictator ! down with the islamic regime.! death to khameini! 🖕
same to you and you dicksucking kind!🖕🖕🖕🖕
your gay protests are fizzing out….go back to the toilet and read the talmud
a drop in the ocean compared to the tens of thousands of kiddies murdered and maimed by joo monsters.
death to the dictator. death to khameini.
who voted for trump to be emperor of the world
he is just as much of a dictator
you would be and your fake votes are as transparent as your political corruptions
death to joo murderers and liars.
death to nazis and eugenecists and genocidal racist ramses
right back atcha. i shit in the talmud the book of evil.
talmud toilet paper would be very profitable business if you think about it
oh yes, that would be profitable. h.p. lovecraft had that shit in mind for his necronomicon.
any nation without nuclear weapons is extremely vulnerable to the shlomo “americans”
you ramses and your comments ars so obvious
death to all americunts—inferior ugly species
all the old men are protesting to defend the islamic republic, all the young iranian woman are protesting to get a better cellphone and some nice top she saw on the internets
where they can be tracked and “exploded”?….
where they can get “dates” and “fans”
question: when will the russian federation and it’s titular head proclaim that an attack on persia is an attack on the russian federation?… rinse and repeat for china and india.
going on 25 years too late.
this will never happen. neigher would it happen in the west if that would mean to really be in danger.
eastern european countries would wake up to realise that article 5 does not force anyone to go to war just to react within their possibilities. so if the usa, uk or france would get in danger themselves they wont come to help. which tells us that either they never inteded to enter ukraine at all or they are 100% sure it wont lead to a real war with russia.
as long as the global souths consists of countries who just care about themselves they will be picked one by one.
la religione non può governare uno stato, basta vedere cosa ha fatto la religione cattolica, guardate come vestono le suore e non gli fanno dire messa è vergognoso contro la donna, e là in iran fanno mettere quegli orribili hijab alle donne mortificandole invece di farle vestire e portare i capelli come desiderano e altra cosa importante mandarle all’università ,tutto questo va risolto e subito ricordo che il museo maxxi di roma è stato progettato da una donna architetto iraniana.
grandes multidões de iranianos marchavam pela república islâmica em apoio ao governo. não precisa dizer mais nada.
the zionists and their whores have failed. these traitors and mossad terrorists will be hanged over the next few days.
a good zionist is a dead one
a good ayatollah is a dead ayatollah
a good r✡️t is dead r✡️t.
a good moslem is a dead moslem
the jooz and their amerikunt whores will soon attack iran. hopefully they will get an almighty bi*ch slapping like they did last time. with many body bags full of jooz and amerikunts.
death to the dictators
death to me! i kill and do murder my own people in the name of allah ! kill me now!
yes death to you, you fake ✡️ss, and your son the son of a ✡️hore too!
the jews are failing again…..useless zionist cockroaches. operation “rising lion” failed. these mossad protests failed. only satan can choose jews over human beings as his favorite bunch of losers on the planet.
i lost all my generals in the first day of “rising lion”
i cannot provide water to all persians
i kill and do cold blood murder of all iranians in the streets
i am ayatollah khomeini the dark lord
the 5 shekel shlomo has arrived
death to ☪️ancer terrorists
down with the dictator
death to khomeini
khomeini is already dead….hahahaha, you very dumb as well
death to talmudic 🖕✡️ 🕍 ✡️🖕shit!
death to khomeini
down with the dictator
you sound like a sheep
f✡️ck your son too!
it’s still pre-pubescent. no idea of what’s in the breeding cycle.
it’s khamenei.