President Trump shared a tweet from US Sen. Lindsey Graham Saturday a tweet, warning Tehran that its “brutality” against its own people “will not go unchallenged.”
“This is truly not the Obama administration when it comes to standing up to the Iranian ayatollah and his religious Nazi henchmen, and standing behind the people of Iran protesting for a better life,” the South Carolina lawmaker wrote on X Saturday. “To the regime leadership: your brutality against the great people of Iran will not go unchallenged. Make Iran Great Again.”
Trump reposted the comments on his Truth Social platform.
Graham’s scathing message was in response to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s own message of support to Iran’s civilians earlier Saturday.
Iranians inside the Islamic Republic have been protesting against the repressive regime for two weeks, as more than 200 demonstrators are believed dead.
“The United States supports the brave people of Iran,” Rubio wrote early Saturday morning.
In a follow-up message, Graham emphasized his pride in Rubio and President Trump for standing with Iranian civilians “who are rightly protesting against their oppression.”
The solidarity stance comes after the Iranian regime threatened Saturday that it would consider demonstrators “enemies of God” — a crime that carries a death penalty charge.
Trump pledged his allegiance to the people of Iran earlier this week, and warned Tehran to spare the lives of its people: “You better not start shooting because we’ll start shooting too.”
In response, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Trump of having hands “stained with the blood of Iranians” in remarks aired Friday.
“[The terrorists] are ruining their own streets … in order to please the president of the United States because he said that he would come to their aid,” Khamenei told a crowd of supporters shouting “Death to America!”
“He should pay attention to the state of his own country instead.”
The leaders of France, Britain and Germany have also publicly condemned the regime’s slaughering protesters, but stopped short of threatening retaliation.
The nation has been under a blackout since Iranian authorities cut off internet access and international telephone communications Thursday.
The protests, which broke out Dec. 28, began over Iran’s ailing economy but have since morphed into calls for regime change, with the most significant challenge to the government in years.
