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Counting on a American Presidsnt Trump that NEVER acted to help protestors
Hadis, 36, a Tehran resident, said in an interview that Iranians turned out to protest, despite widespread killings by security forces, with expectations that Trump would order a military strike on Iranian targets. “Our eyes were fixed on the sky, like something will happen. He’ll hit now,” Hadis said. “We came out [to protest] with fear, but we had hope that Trump will strike now, will kill these guys.”
After Trump refrained from launching an attack, she concluded that he did not have Iranians’ interests in mind. “Trump isn’t thinking of humanity. … You could easily do something for us.” Like others interviewed, she spoke on the condition that her full name not be used for fear of reprisal by the Iranian government.
Aanahita, 45, an Iranian woman in Istanbul, described staying awake all through a recent night amid wide speculation that the United States was about to strike Iran. While an Iranian government shutdown of the internet has it made difficult to communicate with people inside the country, other Iranians in Turkey, Armenia and Dubai described a similar sense of anticipation.
“I kept thinking about how helpless we are that we have to pray for another country to attack us for our salvation and freedom,” Aanahita said. “But today, more than anything, anger is surging through me. I feel like Trump has backtracked again and traded the lives of Iran’s youth…
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In response to Trump’s comments about the executions, Tehran prosecutor Ali Salehi told Iranian state television on Saturday that “Trump always talks a lot of nonsense” and that a large number of indictments had been issued. “Our response is firm, deterrent and swift,” Salehi said.
Exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi, who has emerged as the most prominent opposition leader amid this round of unrest, has called on Trump “to intervene to help the people of Iran.” In a statement Saturday provided by his office, Pahlavi said that it “is not for me to tell President Trump what to do. But what I can say is the Iranian people would welcome targeted action against security forces killing them. In the end the change will come from the Iranian people. They are the boots on the ground. But they do now need some targeted help to stop the massacres.”….
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ISW…Iran Update, January 18, 2026
- Iranian Information Operation: Elements of the Iranian regime leaked information about purported plans to moderate regime behavior domestically and internationally. A former regime official close to Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani told an English-language diaspora outlet that Larijani is pushing to moderate regime policies and conduct major economic and social reforms. The leak is likely meant to dissuade the United States from attacking Iran in response to the brutal regime crackdown on protests. The leakers likely seek to portray the regime as rehabilitating itself and to imply that attacking the regime would be counterproductive.
- Iranian Protest Suppression: The regime is conducting a large-scale arrest campaign following the protests and signaling its plans to execute some of the arrested. The regime is continuing and increasing its oppression against the Iranian public in order to prevent any protest activity, even short of going out to the street, which indicates the regime believes that the threat it faced from this protest wave has not passed.
- Iranian Regime Securitization: The Iranian regime has allowed Iranians access to domestic websites on the internet as part of the phase planned to resume internet access. The regime shut down the internet in response to the protests on January 8.
- SDF Collapse: The ceasefire that Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Mazloum Abdi and Syrian President Ahmed al Shara signed on January 18 outlines broad SDF concessions on several of the issues that the SDF has attempted to demand over the past year. The new SDF-Syrian government agreement may not be any more lasting or effective than the March 10 Agreement. Conflict between the SDF and Syrian government may continue in the coming days and weeks that destabilizes northern Syria and threatens US interests in Syria.
Note….
Donald Trump, NOT Biden was the American Presidentb that FIRST started the exodus from Afghanistan…..
Efforts to overthrown the Iranian Religious Leaders Have NOT succeeded …So Far….
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