IRAN: THE COUNTRY GRAPPLES WITH UNREST THAT HAS GONE ON FOR NEARLY A WEEK AND HAS LEFT SEVERAL DEAD
(Will the radical Muslim, terrorist, clerical government capitulate. We need this regime change.)
Responding to Trump’s comments, top Iranian official Ali Larijani warned that US interference in domestic Iranian issues would amount to a destabilization of the entire Middle East. Iran backs proxy forces in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.
And Iran earlier warns that ‘all US bases and forces in the entire region’ would become ‘legitimate targets’ if Washington intervenes in internal protests.
Tehran issued the stark threat after the US President said America was ‘locked and loaded and ready to go’ if Iranian authorities killed peaceful demonstrators during nationwide protests over soaring living costs.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, accused foreign intelligence agencies of attempting to hijack legitimate protests and turn them into violent unrest.
‘The devil’s cry was raised because the efforts of armed field agents of the intelligence services to turn the legitimate protests of the bazaars and guilds into violent and armed urban battles failed,’ he said in an X post. He added that Iran had repeatedly defeated enemies ‘far more experienced’ throughout history and insisted the country did not equate protesters with foreign mercenaries, saying: ‘We embrace our beloved children.’
But Mr Ghalibaf issued a direct warning to Washington, saying the ‘disrespectful President of the United States’ should understand that any American ‘adventure’ would make all US centres and forces across the region ‘legitimate targets’.
He also stressed that Iranians are ‘always united and determined to act against any aggressor.