President Donald Trump has called for protesters in Iran to seize control of state institutions, issuing a cryptic promise of US assistance and threatening severe consequences for Iranian officials.
Iranian authorities have repeatedly alleged that the US and Israel have had a “big hand” in the ongoing unrest, framing it as a foreign-backed “terrorist war.”
“All Iranian patriots, keep protesting,”Trump declared in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday and in a parallel post on Truth Social. “Take over your institutions if possible. And save the names of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you,” he added, promising they would “pay a very big price.”