Trump: “If Iran shots and violently 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.”

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Iran’s nearly week-long protests, sparked by economic despair but quickly widening into demands for broad change, have turned deadly, with multiple human rights groups saying that several people had been killed by security forces.

President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran on social media on Friday, writing that if Iran “violently 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.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what kind of aid Trump was referring to.

Shortly after, Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, wrote on X that “Trump should know that American interference in this issue is equivalent to chaos in the entire region and will destroy America’s interests.”

The Center for Human Rights in Iran had tallied six killings by Friday, according to spokeswoman Bahar Ghandehari, while the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran said on social media that “at least five” protesters had been killed in direct shootings.

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