Iran
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warns American forces and Israel will be “legitimate targets” if Trump orders strikes over Tehran’s crackdown.
The reported call came shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington “stands ready to help” the demonstrators in the Islamic Republic.
The Islamic Republic “won’t back down in the face of saboteurs,” says Khamenei.
The family of former President Hassan Rouhani and the speaker of Iran’s parliament are among those said to be seeking French visas.
“We’re going to hit them hard. We’re ready to do it,” the U.S. president told Sean Hannity of “Fox News.”
The death toll for the past 12 days reached 42 people, five of them minors, and eight security personnel.
From the Houthis to Hezbollah, Tehran is trying to rebuild lost deterrence through its surrogates.
“We are ready for any choice. We do not desire a war, but we are ready for it,” Abbas Araghchi said during a visit to Lebanon.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency also reported that more than 2,000 people have been arrested as nationwide anti-regime demonstrations and strikes spread across the country.
“We may be at a critical moment, in which the Iranian people will take their fate into their own hands,” he told Knesset lawmakers.
“Obama was silent during the 2009 protests, and Biden was silent during the 2022 protests,” the publisher of a Persian outlet in Los Angeles told JNS. “President Trump’s support to our people protesting today gives them tremendous confidence.”
Lekachau Demsash, 30, was caught documenting areas near former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s home.
