A ample anti-Israeli banner portraying an representation of a Palestinian combatant and the slogan successful Persian and Hebrew, "Endless Voice of Resistance" is erected successful Palestine Square successful Tehran connected December 31, 2025. Israel's Mossad spy bureau issued a nonstop telephone connected December 31, 2025,urging Iranians to property connected with protests, saying it was supporting them "on the ground" arsenic demonstrations dispersed successful superior Tehran and different Iranian cities. Protests began connected December 28, 2025, with Tehran shopkeepers rallying against Iran's worsening system person dispersed to different cities, drafting successful students arsenic well. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump said Friday that if Iran "violently" intervenes with peaceful protests, past the U.S. volition "come to their rescue."
Unrest has been increasing successful Iran since past week, arsenic protests erupted implicit the government's handling of a crisp autumn successful the nation's currency and soaring prices. Annual ostentation hit 42.2% successful December, with nutrient prices jumping 72%. The protests turned convulsive this week arsenic section media reported the decease of astatine slightest six civilians.
"If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America volition travel to their rescue," Trump wrote successful a station connected Truth Social connected Friday.
"We are locked and loaded and acceptable to go," helium added.
Iran's ultimate person advisor Ali Larijani responded by saying that U.S. interference successful Iran's protests was equivalent to chaos crossed the full portion connected Friday, successful comments reported by Reuters.
Iran's system has struggled since Trump pulled the U.S. retired of the Iranian atomic woody successful 2018 and re-imposed sanctions connected the country. Last twelvemonth successful June, U.S. strikes connected Iranian atomic sites escalated tensions, pulling Washington into Israel's warfare with its longtime determination rival.
Suzanne Maloney, vice president and manager of overseas argumentation astatine the Brookings Institution, antecedently said that the Iranian radical were calling for not conscionable a hole to the economy, but for authorities change. She added that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been successful powerfulness for 36 years.
"We're proceeding cries of Death to the dictator. We're proceeding slogans that juxtapose the regime's enactment for militia groups crossed the portion with the existent interests and demands of the Iranian people," Maloney told CNBC's "Squawk Box" connected Wednesday.
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