Trump has put the number of Iranians killed by the regime for protesting against the government earlier this year at 32,000.<\/p>\n
\t In January, Trump declared that \u201chelp is on the way,\u201d as Iranian protesters began taking to the streets. He then urged them to take over their institutions, as the regime preceded to launch a bloody crackdown on the protesters.<\/p>\n Protests subsequently thinned out \u2014 save for periodic, smaller demonstrations in recent weeks by university students \u2014 with the regime ostensibly succeeding in instilling fear among large swaths of the population regarding the significant risks in continuing to take to the streets.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear whether the launch of US and Israeli strikes, which began with the killing of supreme leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of other top Iranian leaders on Saturday, will be enough to overcome the fear of the regime following the crackdown, but the Israeli official said Jerusalem is intent on assisting the protesters.<\/p>\n He did recognize that the regime\u2019s monopoly on force is a major obstacle and that the collapse of the government will require dissent from within \u2014 something that has not yet appeared.<\/p>\n \t While the US and Israeli officials declined to elaborate on the additional steps being taken to assist the Iranian people, American media reported that the US has been arming Kurdish fighters in Iraq.<\/p>\n The White House denied that was the case on Wednesday, asserting that while Trump has been in touch with Kurdish leaders in Iraq, the subject was the American military base in the country.<\/p>\n Some analysts<\/a> warned of the danger of a Kurdish insurgency, arguing that it could harm efforts to unify opponents to the regime.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tA person stands on the roof of a building looking at a plume of smoke rises after a strike on the Iranian capital Tehran, on March 3, 2026. (Photo by ATTA KENARE \/ AFP)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26057711929869-640x400.jpg\")
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