{"id":34223,"date":"2026-01-02T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34223"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:04:35","slug":"trump-warns-us-will-intervene-if-iran-kills-peaceful-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34223","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns US will intervene if Iran kills peaceful protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>President Donald Trump of the United States of America on Friday said that if Iran shoots and kills peaceful protesters, the US will come to their rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are locked and loaded and ready to go,&#8221; he said in a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p>Trump commenting on crisis in Iran on Truth Social<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s declaration follows the deaths of several people as Iran&#8217;s biggest protests in three years over economic hardship turned violent across multiple provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes between protesters and security forces mark a significant escalation in the unrest that has spread across the country since shopkeepers began protesting on Sunday over the government&#8217;s handling of a sharp currency slide and rapidly rising prices.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Several reported killed in Iran protests over economic woes<\/p>\n<p>The unrest comes as Western sanctions hammer an economy hit by 40% inflation and after Israeli and US airstrikes in June targeted the country&#8217;s nuclear infrastructure and military leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s economy has been struggling for years as a result of US and Western sanctions over Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program. Regional tensions led to a 12-day air war with Israel in June, further straining the country&#8217;s finances.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian rial lost around half its value against the dollar in 2025, with inflation reaching 42.5% in December.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump of the United States of America on Friday said that if Iran shoots and kills peaceful protesters, the US will come to their rescue. &#8220;We are locked and loaded and ready to go,&#8221; he said in a Truth Social post. Trump commenting on crisis in Iran on Truth Social Trump\u2019s declaration follows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}