US President Donald Trump has issued a strict warning on the nationwide protests that broke out amid the deepening economic crisis in Iran. Trump has said that America is fully prepared to intervene if Iran’s security agencies open fire on peaceful protesters and kill them. At the same time, senior advisors associated with Iran’s top leadership have rejected this warning and called it a step that will increase regional instability.
Posting on his social media platform ‘Truth Social’ on Friday, Donald Trump wrote, “If Iran shoots and violently murders peaceful protesters, as is their habit, the United States will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for bringing attention to this topic! President Donald J Trump.” This statement of Trump has come at a time when Iran is witnessing the biggest protests in the last three years, the root of which is the rapid fall of the currency Rial, inflation and deteriorating economic situation.
According to Iranian media and human rights organizations, people have died during violent clashes in several provinces. The semi-official Fars news agency reported that three protesters were killed and 17 injured after a police station was attacked in Western Lorestan province. According to Fars, protesters broke into police headquarters and set fire to several police vehicles.
Meanwhile, Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reacted strongly to Trump’s warning. He said that any kind of US interference in Iran’s internal affairs could spread chaos in the entire region. Ali Shamkhani, another Khamenei ally, wrote on social media, “Iran’s national security is a red line and not a subject for any bold tweet.”
In a separate incident, a 21-year-old volunteer of the Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Basij force was also reported dead during the violence. State news agency IRNA confirmed the death, although did not provide details. At the same time, Student News Network held the protesters responsible for this.
The protests began on Sunday when traders and shopkeepers raised their voice against the sharp fall in the currency and rising prices. These demonstrations spread to Tehran, including provinces such as Lorestan, Fars, Kermanshah, Khuzestan and Hamadan. Iran’s central bank chief Mohammad Reza Farzin resigned as the situation worsened, state television confirmed.
Iran’s civilian government, led by President Massoud Pezheshkian, has signaled dialogue but has acknowledged limited control over a deteriorating economy and a currency that has weakened to about 1.4 million rials against the dollar. The current situation is reminiscent of the widespread protests following the death of Mahsa Zeina Amini in 2022, when the entire country was in turmoil.
Iran’s economy has been under pressure for years from US and Western sanctions, which were tightened after Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018. The current protests and international rhetoric have once again brought Iran’s internal crisis to the center of global politics.
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