{"id":404920,"date":"2026-01-13T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:31:09","slug":"help-is-on-its-way-trump-tells-iranians-as-he-urges-them-to-keep-protesting-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404920\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Help is on its way,’ Trump tells Iranians as he urges them to keep protesting – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"Has Donald Trump made up his mind?published at 15:49 GMT<\/p>\n

15:49 GMT<\/p>\n

Paul Adams
World Affairs correspondent<\/p>\n

President Trump’s typically all-caps social media post on Tuesday has raised the stakes dramatically.<\/p>\n

Spurring on Iranian protestors, urging them to take over Iranian institutions and log the names of their \u201ckillers and abusers\u201d, sounded like the words of a president convinced that the Iranian regime could soon fall.<\/p>\n

And his post contained the clearest hint yet that Mr Trump is set on some kind of direct intervention.<\/p>\n

\u201cHELP IS ON ITS WAY.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior officials are due to discuss possible courses of action at a White House meeting today.<\/p>\n

At the weekend, President Trump suggested he might be willing to pursue diplomatic channels, following what he described as an Iranian offer of talks. <\/p>\n

But it seems diplomacy has, for now, been set aside.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

Online, all-caps threats are a familiar feature of this president\u2019s leadership style, and he hasn\u2019t always followed through.<\/p>\n

But having promised to come to the rescue of Iranian protesters, and with hundreds \u2013 perhaps thousands \u2013 of them now dead, Donald Trump appears to have made up his mind. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to see him backing down now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has Donald Trump made up his mind?published at 15:49 GMT 15:49 GMT Paul AdamsWorld Affairs correspondent President Trump’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-404920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}