The US President has said that help is on the way as he urges Iranians to keep protesting and to seize control of state institutions.
At the same time Donald Trump issued a cryptic message promising American assistance and threatening severe consequences for Iranian officials.
The Iranian authorities claim that the US and Israel have a “big hand” in the ongoing unrest, and have framed it as a foreign-backed “terrorist war.”
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During a speech to the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday and in a post on Truth Social. Trump urged: All Iranian patriots, keep protesting…..He added “Take over your institutions if possible. And save the names of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you,” promising they would “pay a very big price.”
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Iranian authorities have already warned that they would target US forces in the Middle East if Washington tried to intervene.
On Monday, the US State Department warned all American citizens to leave Iran immediately.
RT reports: The protests, which began in late December over the collapsing national currency, have reportedly resulted in hundreds of deaths. Western media and activist groups claim the casualties are in the thousands. Trump has said he is unsure of the true numbers, stressing that his response will depend on verified facts.
“We’re going to get some accurate numbers… The killing looks like it’s significant, but we don’t know yet for certain,” he told reporters.
Pressed to clarify what “help is on its way” entails, Trump gave a broad answer in a CBS News interview. “Well there’s a lot of help on the way and in different forms, including economic help from our standpoint and not going to help Iran very much,” he said, referencing newly implemented tariffs on any country doing business with Iran.
Trump did not rule out military action, citing past US military actions in Venezuela and the assassinations of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi and Iranian General Qasem Soleimani as examples of his policies.
“The end game is to win. I like winning,” he said.
