""Iran is in big trouble. We're watching the situation very carefully. I've made the statement very strongly that if they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved. We will be hitting them very hard where it hurts. That does not mean boots on the ground, but it does mean hitting them very, very hard where it hurts.""
""In video verified by AFP, crowds were seen in northern Tehran shouting support for the long-ousted monarchy while lighting fireworks and banging on pots in defiance of authorities. Trump maintained the pressure against Iran's authoritarian regime, which has ruled the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ousted US-allied Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who died in 1980 in exile in Egypt.""
Iranian protesters remained on the streets for a fifteenth consecutive day, with anti-government chants heard in Tehran and demonstrations, arrests, and violence reported in dozens of other cities. Rights groups reported confrontations and at least 116 people killed over the preceding two weeks. In northern Tehran, crowds shouted support for the long-ousted monarchy, lit fireworks, and banged pots in defiance of authorities. A video showed a protester briefly replacing the current national flag with the pre-1979 flag. US officials signaled readiness to help protesters and warned of strong responses, short of ground forces, if mass killings resume.
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