"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials 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. Trump initially wrote on his Truth Social platform, warning Iran that if it "violently kills peaceful protesters," the United States "will come to their rescue." At least seven people have been killed so far in violence surrounding the demonstrations, sparked in part by the collapse of Iran's rial currency."
""We are locked and loaded and ready to go," Trump wrote, without elaborating. Shortly after, Ali Larijani, a former parliament speaker who serves as the secretary of Iran's 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."
Economic protests have widened across parts of Iran, partly triggered by the collapse of the rial and resulting in at least seven deaths. U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Truth Social that if Iran violently kills peaceful protesters the United States "will come to their rescue" and said, "We are locked and loaded and ready to go." Iranian officials, including Ali Larijani and Ali Shamkhani, accused the U.S. and Israel of stoking unrest, warned that foreign intervention would bring chaos and destruction to U.S. interests, and threatened retaliation against any intervention near Iran's security.
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