The Iranian regime warned on Jan. 18 that “any aggression” against its leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would amount to waging “all-out war” against Iran, and indicated it may proceed with executing hundreds of citizens detained during protests that have swept the country over the last three weeks.
Faced with a worsening economy and skyrocketing inflation, Iranian citizens have amassed in the largest wave of protests to hit the nation since its 1979 Islamic revolution, taking to the streets on Dec. 28, 2025, to call for an end to the Islamist regime’s theocratic clerical rule.
U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated that Washington stands ready to intervene if the regime continues to kill protesters in the streets or orders executions. In a social media post on Jan. 16, Trump thanked Iran’s leaders for cancelling more than 800 executions that he said were scheduled to take place on Thursday….