President Donald Trump is “looking at so many different things” with Iran, following days of protests against the Islamic Republic’s regime by demonstrators who have been getting gunned down by the thousands in the streets.
In his latest interview with the Washington Reporter, Trump laughed when the Reporter remarked that Iran’s theocratic rulers are taking the country into the “Stone Ages,” responding “you’re my kind of guy.”
However, Trump did offer praise to the Iranian rulers for “stopp[ing] 837 hangings,” which Iran “terminated because of the fact that they didn’t want me to be unhappy. I appreciate that very much. That’s a lot of hangings, right? Can you imagine that?”
The United States is widely expected to provide meaningful assistance to protesters in Iran; “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!… HELP IS ON ITS WAY,” he recently posted on Truth Social.
After Trump urged the Iranian protesters to continue protesting, he received bipartisan praise, first covered by the Reporter, from a series of Democratic and Republican members of Congress for the work that his administration, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is doing to keep up the pressure on Iran’s ayatollahs.
The lawmakers want the Trump administration to “continue publicly condemning the Iranian regime’s violent repression of protesters, including attacks on hospitals and medical facilities. At this critical juncture, whole-of-government support is essential to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to universal human rights and solidarity with the Iranian people.”
Trump, for his part, recently added that “it’s time to look for new leadership in Iran…The man [Ali Khamenei] is a sick man who should run his country properly and stop killing people. His country is the worst place to live anywhere in the world because of poor leadership.”
