Washington, 10 January (H.S.): United States President Donald Trump declared on Friday, that Iran finds itself in big trouble as widespread protests surge across cities previously deemed impregnable, reiterating threats of severe military retaliation should authorities resort to lethal force against demonstrators.

Observing that the people are taking over certain cities that nobody thought were really possible just a few weeks ago, Trump delivered a pointed message to Iran's leadership: You better not start shooting because we'll start shooting too.

He elaborated that any repeat of past massacres would trigger U.S. involvement—not through ground troops, but via strikes hitting them very, very hard where it hurts, amid a nationwide internet shutdown now plunging the country into communicative darkness.

The admonition arrives as protests, ignited by economic despair at Tehran's Grand Bazaar since late December 2025, engulf all 31 provinces with chants demanding the clerical regime's overthrow, prompting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's defiant rhetoric branding demonstrators as foreign-backed vandals.

Cybersecurity monitors confirm connectivity has cratered to 1% of normal levels, severing global links and telephony while rights groups report dozens killed—including children—and hundreds blinded by security forces' pellet guns in Tehran alone.

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