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After having promised the protesters in Iran that they should keep going, assuring them that “help is on the way” and repeatedly threatening the Iranian government with a possible violent intervention by the American military, Donald Trump suddenly turned back, and announced that he had it on good authority that the Iranian regime had stopped its violence, so there was no longer any need for the Americans to intervene. He even praised the government of Iran, thanking it for not executing 800 protesters who, Trump claimed, were scheduled to be hung. In return, Ayatollah Khamenei has again denounced the Great Satan, and another senior Iranian official has just given his own response to Trump’s pusillanimity. More about that response, in which he called for kidnaping Trump, as well as carrying out terrorist acts inside the US, including arson, car rammings, and murder, can be found here: “Iranian Official Says Regime Should Capture Trump, Every US City Deserves Rampant Arson, Murder,” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, January 16, 2026:
An Iranian official has called on the Islamic Republic to capture US President Donald Trump and said it is permissible to carry out terrorist attacks in US cities.
Hassan Rahimpour-Azghadi, an official with the Iranian Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, threatened Trump and the American people during an appearance last week on the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) TV, a state-run news channel.
The comments from Jan. 9 were first reported and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
“Inshallah, we should do to Trump something similar to what they did to Maduro,” Rahimpour-Azghadi said, referring to the recent American operation to arrest ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for his alleged role in trafficking drugs.
“Such an operation should be carried out against Trump …We are dealing with a savage individual and a savage regime, which extends its claws everywhere in the world,” the Iranian official continued….
Unsheathed Iranian claws, on the other hand, have in recent years been extended to Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, where Iran had been attempting to create a “Shi’a crescent” to surround and threaten the state of Israel.
“Inshallah, we should do to Trump something similar to what they did to Maduro,” Rahimpour-Azghadi said, referring to the recent American operation to arrest ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for his alleged role in trafficking drugs.
“Such an operation should be carried out against Trump …We are dealing with a savage individual and a savage regime, which extends its claws everywhere in the world,” the Iranian official continued.
In addition to calling for the capture of Trump, Rahimpour-Azghadi further made the point that what he views as illegal US actions now make it permissible to conduct terrorist actions “in every state and every city.”
Specifically, the Iranian official was referring to “arson attacks, burning people, gunning down people in the streets, running over a mother and her daughter with a car.” The US, he argued, has engaged in such actions in Iran, and therefore, “by law, it is now permissible to carry out any type of attack, whether on US soil, against US interests across the world.”…
Well, that’s quite a threat: arson, burning people alive, shooting people in the street, and even — Rahimpour-Azghadi is quite the detail man — “running over a mother and her daughter with a car.” It’s some list.
The regime has responded with increasingly violent force on protests. An Iranian official told Reuters earlier this week that about 2,000 people had been killed in the protests, marking the first time authorities have given an overall death toll from more than two weeks of unrest….
That estimate of 2,000 protesters having been killed is much too low, as even the Iranians finally admitted.
“Based on available data and cross-checking information obtained from reliable sources, including the Supreme National Security Council and the presidential office, the initial estimate by the Islamic Republic’s security institutions is that at least 12,000 people were killed in this nationwide killing,” reported Iran International, a Persian-language news outlet….
Now the regime admits that at least 12,000 people were killed during the protests. Some sites that Iranians in exile run claim that far more protesters — at least 20,000 — were killed in the protests. When a final tabulation is made, the world will undoubtedly discover that tens of thousands of Iranian protesters were, in fact, killed.
That bloodcurdling threat made by Rahimpour-Azghadi to Trump and to Americans in general would not have been made without the approval of the Supreme Leader. Trump tried, in his mercurial and blundering fashion, to win Iranian approval by abandoning overnight the protesters for whom he had initially held out hope of American intervention. And what did he get in return? A threat to murder him, this “impure man, this savage yellow dog” who fancies himself a peacemaker. A threat to launch terrorist attacks in cities all over America, with gunfire in the streets, arson attacks that would “burn people up,” car rammings, and even a woman and her daughter, gunned down.
Perhaps Trump will now turn again, like Dick Whittington, and after such a ferocious response from Iran, recognize that the Islamic Republic is unhinged by hate, hate for any Iranian who does not slavishly obey the Supreme Leader, and hate for all those outside Iran who support those freedom-seeking Iranians. And then he will indeed make clear that this time he really means it — “help is on its way.”
