DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump and a top Iranian security official exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening economic protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites in June.<\/p>\n
Trump initially wrote on his Truth Social platform, warning Iran that if it \u201cviolently kills peaceful protesters,\u201d the United States \u201cwill come to their rescue.\u201d At least seven people have been killed so far in violence surrounding demonstrations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are locked and loaded and ready to go,\u201d Trump wrote, without elaborating.<\/p>\n
Shortly after, Ali Larijani, a former parliament speaker who serves as the secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, alleged on the social platform X that Israel and the U.S. were stoking the demonstrations. He offered no evidence to support the allegation, which Iranian officials have repeatedly made during years of protests sweeping the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrump should know that intervention by the U.S. in the domestic problem corresponds (to) chaos in the entire region and the destruction of the U.S. interests,\u201d Larijani wrote on X, which the Iranian government blocks. \u201cThe people of the U.S. should know that Trump began the adventurism. They should take care of their own soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Larijani\u2019s remarks likely referenced America\u2019s wide military footprint in the region. Iran in June attacked Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar after the U.S. strikes on three nuclear sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump and a top Iranian security official exchanged dueling threats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119912,127,122,85,46,43,238,5468,126],"class_list":["post-216507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-119912","tag-article","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}