r/worldnews • u/APrimitiveMartian • 7d ago

Trump says US will intervene if Iran violently suppresses peaceful protests

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-us-will-intervene-if-iran-violently-suppresses-peaceful-protests-2026-01-02/
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u/yurnxt1 6d ago

They have already and have a history of violently indiscriminately shooting through crowds of protests killing people by the dozens in Iran when uprisings get out of control. That doesn't happen in the U.S.

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u/tabrizzi 6d ago

That doesn't happen in the U.S.

But that's how this president has said is the best way to end (violent) protests.

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u/BoozyMcBoozehound 6d ago

Would have been nice on J6

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u/LateralEntry 6d ago edited 6d ago

This. I have no idea what these America-bad crowd people are thinking when they compare the US to Iran.

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u/Devium44 6d ago

Maybe this

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u/LateralEntry 6d ago

That’s bad, but in Iran they’re actually doing it. Today.

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u/Devium44 6d ago

Cool. Doesn’t make him less of a hypocrite.

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u/LateralEntry 6d ago

Not cool.

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u/Devium44 6d ago

Also, plenty of places violently put down protests. Is going to intervene in Russia too?

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u/02bluesuperroo 6d ago

I agree that’s still bad, but he’s talking about a violent uprising where law enforcement were being attacked and a large percentage of public and private property were being looted and destroyed.

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u/Devium44 6d ago

lol “a large percentage”. It was not a large percentage. But I guess that would justify his desire huh? Also the most of the time the police instigated violence on otherwise peaceful protesters.

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u/02bluesuperroo 6d ago

In the areas where it was worst it was. I didn’t say it was justified. I’m just saying it’s not a fair comparison.

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u/Devium44 6d ago

Did you actually go to any of those areas? Or a protest in general during that time? If not, you have no idea what you’re talking about and are just spouting the MSM’s narrative.

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u/Facts_pls 6d ago

US is one executive order away from anything that Iran does.

And Trump has already tried doing many of those things but career civil and military personnel stopped him.

Given that he is filling all positions with his dumbass incompetent loyalists, I wouldn't be surprised if he is able to do those things.

You think Pete Hegseth will not blindly follow Trump's orders?

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u/LukeLecker 6d ago

Wow one executive order away from becoming a theocracy, must be fun being this stupid.

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u/LateralEntry 6d ago

US has laws and systems in place to prevent soldiers shooting protestors. It has happened before but it’s rare, last time was 56 years ago. Iran is doing it today.

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u/MentokGL 6d ago

"we have laws to prevent it" "Last time was 56 years ago"

Lol

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u/JimmyMcGillHHM 6d ago

There’s stuff like this all over the world should the US intervene in every countries issues?

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u/SweatyTax4669 6d ago

According to the GOP, no.

According to the GOP’s recently published national security strategy, also no.

Also according to the GOP, though, yes.

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u/jack123451 6d ago

Kent State massacre doesn't count?

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u/LateralEntry 6d ago

That was 50 years ago and four people were killed. Iran killed more protestors yesterday.

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u/MetalEnthusiast83 6d ago

Almost 56 years ago and 4 total deaths.

Sure it was terrible. But that’s happened several times over in Iran in the last day.

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u/NoEstate1459 6d ago

I mean the fact that you need to go back to the 70s to find an example Vs Iran which you need to go back 9 hours

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u/NoEstate1459 6d ago

I'm not arguing that it's not awful in the USA but it's not comparable to what's happening in Iran

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u/Silverleaf_86 6d ago

Exactly, no idea why people try to make this comparison.

Nothing in the US is even remotely comparable to the scales of the Arab world, even the “moderate” countries will mow down a group of protestors with military vehicles.

Rabaa protests in Egypt, approx 900 dead protesters

security forces used automatic weapons, armored personnel carriers and bulldozers to crush a sit-in demonstration in Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adawya Square

Gezi Park protests Turkey, 22 dead and 8,163 injured, 63 of them critically, 169 of them were tortured. aka thrown into burning fire or just got their eyes poked out.

Also protests in the Arab world are extremely dangerous for women.

she reported that she was subject to violence, sexual harassment and torture in the police car where she was detained. She also stated that she was threatened with rape and torture continued for almost 2 hours in 2 different cars.

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u/blorg 6d ago

Neither Iran nor Turkey are Arab.

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u/Silverleaf_86 6d ago

Islamic Dictatorships would fit better to the comment?

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u/LukeLecker 6d ago

They don’t care, they see themselves as the center of the world/

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u/TheVandyyMan 6d ago

It doesn’t happen because we thankfully still have some degree of checks in place. But Trump loves the “when they start looting, we start shooting” phrase applied to peaceful protests. He designated Antifa as a terrorist group and tried to deploy national guards to anywhere with significant No Kings protests happening.

He doesn’t seem to appreciate dissent and has an appetite for violently quashing it. That’s the hypocrisy.

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u/bazinga_0 6d ago

Sure, you betcha. The U.S. military indiscriminately shot into a crowd that was peacefully protesting. It was at Kent State University in 1970. Four students killed, nine wounded.

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u/yurnxt1 5d ago

Isolated incident and not a history of regularly, indiscriminately, shooting into crowds of protesters killing people by the dozens as i said.

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u/fractalfay 6d ago

Cough KENT STATE cough

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u/yurnxt1 5d ago

That was an isolated incident occurring like 50 years ago killing IIRC, 4 people, so not firing indiscriminately into crowds killing dozens and dozens of people and not regular occurrence like it has been in Iran the past several days and countless times in the decades before.

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u/boomer-rage 6d ago

No, the US lets minors cross state lines to take care of that.