Trump says U.S. will intervene if Iran kills peaceful protesters as economic unrest spreads

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Jan. 2, 2026, 5:31 AM EST / Updated Jan. 2, 2026, 5:40 AM EST


President Donald Trump vowed Friday to intervene if Iran shoots or violently kills peaceful demonstrators, as economic protests spread and evolved into deadly unrest.

If Iran "kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go," Trump said in an overnight post on Truth Social. Senior Iranian officials fired back, warning that U.S. intervention would spark regional chaos and be met with a firm response.

It comes after protests in the Islamic Republic took a sharply violent turn in recent days, with at least seven deaths reported by a human rights organization and at least three reported by a semiofficial news agency.

The protests erupted Sunday in the capital Tehran, with crowds largely chanting about economic grievances after the country's currency hit a record low against the dollar as prices soar.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/trump-us-intervene-iran-kills-protesters-economic-unrest-rcna251875

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But he won't intervene if ICE kills our peaceful protestors or innocent citizens assumed to be "illegal".

[OLDMDDEM]

1. I understood him to say that the U.S. will not be polieman to the world.

[GiqueCee]

3. Consistency in messaging...

... is not the Orange Hellbeast's strong suit. He just lies about the lies he just lied about.

[Walleye]

2. He doesn't want to protect human rights, he just wanted to say "locked and loaded"

[sinkingfeeling]

4. But he doesn't mind ICE killing people in their dungeons or LE trampling on US protesters.

[ananda]

11. This was my first reaction! Thus...

I think he just gets a hard on with the idea of
war anywhere.

[Midnight Writer]

5. In other news, President Trump is assembling a militarized "strike force" to quell protests here in the USA.

[purr-rat beauty]

6. Bullllllllllshit

Felonious trump would GLEEFULLY harm or kill ( already has ) the citizens of this nation, he doesn't care for the plight of anyone anywhere.

[Irish_Dem]

7. How many wars can he start in one week?

Greenland, Denmark, Venezuela, Iran, etc etc.

[uppityperson]

8. "Because we want to do it"

[murielm99]

9. TSF wanted to shoot U.S. protesters

in the legs after George Floyd. But Iranian protesters are off limits in their country?

[DBoon]

10. Should Iran intervene if Trump kills peaceful protestors?

[mwb970]

12. And how does he feel about protesters here?

[DavidDvorkin]

13. How?

By dropping bombs?

[sboatcar]

14. AKA "I will punish you for being in the economic situation I put you in"

[ChicagoTeamster]

15. But he wanted to kill peaceful protesters here

[tonekat]

16. What's this "We" crap??

The dumpy criminal only speaks for himself. Give him a stick, and drop him off in the middle of one of those protests!

[Ol Janx Spirit]

17. We will meet your violence with our own violence has Nobel Peace Prize written all over it....

While we're at it, aren't these "Truths" also considered literature?

Does screaming at the Fed Chair to cut interest rates qualify you as an "economist"?

Does knowing more about the use of aspirin than your doctors make you proficient in "medicine"?

How many Nobel Prizes do you think he is actually going to demand to get once he realizes they will cave to him on the peace one?

[Marcuse]

18. Now the mullahs can proclaim the rebels in league with The Great Satan.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

19. Now wait just a minute,

it was my understanding that the MAGAT's primarily voted for Trumpedo on his pledge to keep America out of foreign wars and not be the world's cop.

Did I miss something here?

So far, according to my recollection, Trumpedo is now involving the US the affairs of Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, Iran, Cuba, etc., am I correct?

For a US "Pres." to run on the pledge to not be the world's cop, this is just another lie in a lloonngg list of lies.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. "it was my understanding that the MAGATs primarily voted for Trumpedo on his pledge to keep America out of foreign wars"

MTG ripped him a new one about that - Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Trump’s Iran Threat as ‘Everything We Voted Against in ’24’