Olivia Allhusen – DailyMail.com Jan 2, 2026
Iran has warned that ‘all US bases and forces in the entire region’ would become ‘legitimate targets’ if Washington intervenes in internal protests, after Donald Trump vowed to protect anti-regime protesters.
Tehran issued the stark threat after the US President said America was ‘locked and loaded and ready to go’ if Iranian authorities killed peaceful demonstrators during nationwide protests over soaring living costs.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, accused foreign intelligence agencies of attempting to hijack legitimate protests and turn them into violent unrest.
‘The devil’s cry was raised because the efforts of armed field agents of the intelligence services to turn the legitimate protests of the bazaars and guilds into violent and armed urban battles failed,’ he said in an X post.
He added that Iran had repeatedly defeated enemies ‘far more experienced’ throughout history and insisted the country did not equate protesters with foreign mercenaries, saying: ‘We embrace our beloved children.’
But Mr Ghalibaf issued a direct warning to Washington, saying the ‘disrespectful President of the United States’ should understand that any American ‘adventure’ would make all US centres and forces across the region ‘legitimate targets’.
He also stressed that Iranians are ‘always united and determined to act against any aggressor.’
It comes after President Trump threatened U.S. action if Iran kills protesters, after cost-of-living demonstrations in the country turned deadly.
Protesters and security forces clashed in several Iranian cities on Thursday with six reported killed in the first deaths since the unrest escalated.
Shopkeepers in the capital Tehran went on strike on Sunday over high prices and economic stagnation, actions that have since spread to other parts of the country.
Trump said on his Truth Social platform that ‘if Iran [shoots] 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,’ the Republican leader added.
The senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Larijani, responding to Trump’s warning on Friday, said that US interference in Iranian protests would lead to chaos across the Middle East.
An Iranian official also said US intervention in the country would ‘destabilise [the] entire region’.
Iran’s biggest protests in three years over economic hardship have turned violent across several provinces, leaving multiple people dead.
Riot squads opened fire and carried out mass arrests on protesters, who have vowed not to back down.
More cities joined the protests as night fell on Thursday and clashes intensified in several locations, prompting officials to send reinforcements.
Iran’s Fars news agency reported yesterday that two people were killed in clashes between security forces and protesters in the city of Lordegan, in the province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, and three in Azna, in neighbouring Lorestan province.
State television reported earlier that a member of Iran’s security forces was killed overnight during protests in the western city of Kouhdasht.
However, human rights groups have contradicted these reports, insisting he was in fact amongst the protestors and killed by security forces.
Crowds on the streets chanted anti-government slogans, such as ‘this year is a year of blood, Seyyed Ali will be overthrown’ and ‘death to the dictator’.
Dozens of people were arrested by riot police and plainclothes agents.
Security forces also reportedly blocked roads, deployed a heavy armed presence to the streets, and engaged with the protesters.
The unrest comes at a critical moment for Iran’s Islamic clerical rulers as Western sanctions hammer an economy hit by 40 per cent inflation and after Israeli and US airstrikes in June targeted the country’s nuclear infrastructure and military leadership.
Iran’s civilian government under reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian has been trying to signal it wants to negotiate with protesters.
But Mr Pezeshkian has acknowledged there is not much he can do as Iran’s rial currency has rapidly depreciated, with one US dollar now costing some 1.4 million rials.
Meanwhile, state television separately reported on the arrests of seven people, including five it described as monarchists and two others it said had links to European-based groups.
State TV also claimed another operation saw security forces confiscate 100 smuggled pistols, without elaborating.
On Wednesday, a photo of a lone demonstrator defiantly sitting on the road in front of armed security forces drew parallels to the ‘Tank Man’ snap taken during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
The photograph, shared widely by local media including broadcaster Iran International, shows a brave protester sitting on a Tehran street in an attempt to block armed police from riding their motorbikes down the road.
The demonstrations are smaller than the last major incident in 2022, triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code for women.
Her death sparked a nationwide wave of anger that left several hundred people dead including dozens of members of the security forces.
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Angelina Jolie travels to the Egypt-Gaza border to visit Palestinians
Angelina Jolie travels to the Egypt-Gaza border to visit injured Palestinians. The actress is former special envoy and goodwill ambassador for the UN refugee agency. She flew to Egypt on Friday to visit the Rafah crossing, which connects the country to Gaza, and spoke with members of the Red Crescent and truck drivers waiting weeks to get into Gaza with humanitarian aid.
Israeli-approved ‘traders’ allowed to steal from the lorries to profit from Gaza-bound aid barred from entering Gaza with the humanitarian aid
BBC pays £28k compensation to Israeli family after ‘intruding’ into their home following October 7
Story by Marcus Donaldson • 10h •
The BBC has issued an apology and agreed to pay £28,000 in compensation to an Israeli family for “intruding” into their home in the aftermath of October 7when Hamas were let in to attack.
Jeremy Bowen, the corporation’s international editor and his crew were found to have filmed the residence without permission after the family were forced to flee.
£ 28 grand ? of our money, on dirty jews
i am disgusted
JewSA is the real enemy.
Septics will fold & run if many bases hit at once
Locked and loaded said Donald John Wayne
Sickening yankie bull shit
Police have released images of migrant suspects wanted in connection with a knife attack on a Good Samaritan who tried to stop a robbery on the London Underground.
Just before 11pm on Monday, December 29, a group of migrants threatened an elderly man on a Metropolitan Line train heading to Northwick Park station.
who refused to hand over his wallet. Another passenger tried to help but was attacked by the group, who slashed him with a knife and left a cut above his eyebrow.
The group then fled Northwick Park Underground station having stolen the man’s bag.
Detectives are appealing for anyone who recognises the migrants pictured, or who may have witnessed the incident, to contact British Transport Police to help their investigation.
ALL CRIMINAL MIGRANTS SHOULD BE SENT BACK TO COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
That bottom line is that the people running the US (likely mostly Masons, Materialists, and Zionist-leaning Jews) want Iran’s vast oil and gas reserves, and the international Rothchild network with a major hand in all of the silk-road projects to control future global trade and currencies, wants an unfettered pass through Iran to the Middle East, obviously an area destined in their planning to be dominated and controlled by a Greater Israel. Meanwhile, this “Crusade” in which you see American flags on the map above, only show and handful of the US bases in some of the nations where there are American bases. There are many more, even in places such as Jordan.
Iran has been on the Western chopping block ever since the Iranians kicked out the Shah in 1979, and the Muslims took back control of their oil industry. However, this is not a “Christian crusade” against the Muslims, it is more of a crusade for the anti-Christ of Western materialism, and for Rothschild-Jewish globalist hegemony.
In every defeated Muslim nations there has been little or no effort even to protect Christians from Muslim persecution, let alone protect any real semblance of freedom of religion. You see the opposite even of anything ecumenical, with Christian numbers constantly dwindling. The reason for this is that what we are seeing is essentially a Rothschild-Jewish crusade over the entire region using the bate of cheap oil for NATO nations for their compliance, and to do the wet work. Driving Christianity out of the world appears to be more of their goal than anything else, and it would be no solution to any of the problems to try to use the conquest of the ME or Iran as a pretext to protect or further Christianity in the area.
What is happening in the ME is the opposite of what Christ would do, although if it were truly Christians being murdered and oppressed for being Christian then there ought to be a duty without any pretext for the remnant Christians in the West to do more to protect them, which does not seem to be the problem in Iran, but is a problem in all of the US conquered Muslim nations.
Another False Flag (yawn)
Yippe Kay ay !!!
Let’s see if the USA doesn’t F*ck this up like 99.9 % of its past attacks and invasions.
Oh wait they just captured Venezuela’s leader Maduro.
Rixon
HTS = al-Sham
they’re so arrogant/omnipotent now, they tell you its a sham themselves, without any qualms
its all a sham, truman show stuff for the zombies
now you know brah
Rixon:
Only problem is Iran is ruled by Donmeh
It’s very unlikely that the leadership of Iran said anything of the sort. It doesn’t sound plausible in my opinion. What would they gain from such an idiotic statement. I might be wrong but it seems illogical to assume that they would be using threats over something so trivial. Non nuclear proliferation is the name of the game but unless we have mutual respect for a balanced nuclear deterrent in the Middle East we in the West are going to be increasingly sucked into the pockets of nefarious regimes.
Bowen is a crypto jew…..FACT.
DOES ANYONE TAKE TRUMP SERIOUSLY.Hes a Wimp in disguise!
Only last week he was making himself out to be a peacemaking!……InfAct he sucks up to jews..he is treacherous!.
@jamesbalderson1991..
me too…time to start smashing their fucking skulls in with hammers
Until the public realize that the crypto jew TRUMP is a jew no progress will be made halting the JEW WAR…..against this jew war.
Trump is a natural born liar and Americans are easily duped.
Ditto that disgusting crypto jew Starmer..French and British taxpayers have just paid for another bombing on Syria……Meantime British taxpayers are housing illegal immigrants while British vets are living on the streets!!!!!!.
This is all down to starmer the JEW!…….
BRITISH TAXPAYERS NEED TO GET ANGRY!.
Well what does Iran expect when they set up shop right by so many JewSA military bases. Wait…what?…Iran was there first by several thousand years you say?
The thing is, the Jew, utterly wicked and demented, believes that everything in the whirled belongs to them…because some deranged yid hallucinating in the desert scribbled it on a rock 3 thousand years ago as he was shitting down his own leg. The self-proclaimed “chosen”, and millions upon millions of dumber than dog shit Christian imbeciles bought right into that absurd lie.