Trump Calls on Iranians to ‘Take Over Your Institutions’ as Death Toll Mounts
“In the largest killing in Iran’s contemporary history – carried out largely over two consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, January 8 and 9 – at least 12,000 people were killed.”
In his strongest statement since the protests in Iran began, President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Iranian people to take back their country from the Mullah regime, assuring them that the American “help is on its way.”
President Trump also announced that he was canceling scheduled talks with the Iranian officials, paving the way for a tougher U.S. response.
“Iranian Patriots, keep protesting – take over your institutions!!! … help is on its way,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 13, 2026
Over the weekend, President Trump said that Tehran was “starting to” cross red lines by massacring protesters. He was considering “very strong options,” suggesting a possible military action against the regime.
Reporter: You said to Iran that help is on the way. What kind of help?
President Trump: You are going to have to figure that out. I'm sorry.n pic.twitter.com/qjfXOkbpZM
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 13, 2026
President Trump’s statement comes amid disturbing reports the regime forces may have massacred thousands of protesters in recent days, horrific video footage and eyewitness accounts coming out of the country suggest.
Why aren’t these pictures from Iran all over the front pages of mainstream media outlets? pic.twitter.com/V7IWpEvFWQ
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 13, 2026
According to a media outlet close to opposition groups, over 12000 demonstrators were killed by the Iranian security services in the past couple of days alone. “At least 12,000 people were killed over two nights on January 8 and 9 during protests, Iran International’s editorial board concluded, based on a review of sources and medical data,” the London-based news website Iran International reported Tuesday.
By continuing to kill pro-democracy protesters, the regime has chosen to ignore President Donald Trump’s repeated warnings. President Trump, on Monday night, slapped 25% tariff on any country doing business with Iran, as Mary Chastain reported. The new tariffs are likely to impact the leading Asian economies dependent on Iranian oil imports, namely China and India.
🇮🇷 #Iran: Hundreds of people lie dead in body bags in streets, warehouses, and hospitals across the country.
Reports indicate that over the past three days, the IRGC has used the internet blackout to target and kill as many protesters as possible in an effort to crush the… pic.twitter.com/eV0fZI7wZD
— POPULAR FRONT (@PopularFront_) January 11, 2026
The Mullah regime, while downplaying the bloody crackdown, admitted that it has killed close to 2,000 protesters since the uprising began last December. “About 2,000 people including security personnel have been killed in protests in Iran, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, the first time authorities have acknowledged the high death toll from an intense crackdown on two weeks of nationwide unrest,” Reuters reported Tuesday. In addition to that, more than ten thousand protesters have been thrown into prison, media reports say.
If you really want to stand by your words, please do it Now! In the last week more than 16000 people in #Iran are being killed. It’s not Enough dear president @POTUS to act against the terror regime? pic.twitter.com/tpiS46vbh6
— Arash Hampay (@ahampay) January 12, 2026
The Iran International explained how it collected the death toll figures:
Over the past two days, Iran International’s editorial board has reviewed – through a rigorous, multi-stage process and in accordance with established professional standards – information received from a source close to the Supreme National Security Council; two sources in the presidential office; accounts from several sources within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the cities of Mashhad, Kermanshah, and Isfahan; testimonies from eyewitnesses and families of those killed; field reports; data linked to medical centers; and information provided by doctors and nurses in various cities.
Based on these reviews, we have concluded that:
In the largest killing in Iran’s contemporary history – carried out largely over two consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, January 8 and 9 – at least 12,000 people were killed.
In terms of geographic scope, intensity of violence, and the number of deaths in a short time span, this killing is unprecedented in Iran’s history.
Based on information received, those killed were mainly shot by forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij.
This killing was fully organized, not the result of “sporadic” and “unplanned” clashes.
Parents looking for their children. Those evil bastards! The West must find its voice, at the very least. Trump must redeploy some of those military assets he moved to the Caribbean, pronto. Now is the time for action. Free Iran! pic.twitter.com/HxMAguDm4R
— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) January 11, 2026
Not satisfied with butchering people in the streets, the regime is also executing protesters to create terror within the population. “Erfan Soltani, a 26-year old protester detained last Thursday, will reportedly be executed tomorrow, according to the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights,” the BBC reported Tuesday.
By continuing to kill pro-democracy protesters, the regime has chosen to ignore President Donald Trump’s repeated warnings. President Trump, on Monday night, slapped 25% tariff on any country doing business with Iran, as Mary Chastain reported. The new tariffs are likely to impact the leading Asian economies dependent on Iranian oil imports, namely China and India.
🇮🇷 Over the past two weeks, more than one million people have taken to the streets in Iran to protest against the regime, according to Western intelligence sources tell the @Jerusalem_Post
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) January 13, 2026
The Khamenei regime has threatened to attack Israel, as well as nearby U.S. military bases and commercial shipping in the region, in the case of an American strike. The Israeli armed forces are on high alert, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will hold a security cabinet meeting on Tuesday amid Iranian threats.
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the iranians are showing the world that they are willing to not be run over by
their version of a blmplo pro government
take note
I hope you are correct, but the government in Iran appears to be using the Curtis LeMay strategy — if you kill enough of them, they will stop.
The key to success to me may be the security forces. If the protests have a manner of going after them, or getting them to protest too, the revolution has a chance. If not, there will just be more body bags.
agree
there are times,,think tienimin square
where one person can change the narrative of the military
Yet the Chinese uprising was crushed. Let’s hope this does not happen to Iran.
Funny how silent are all those leftist human rights organizations who condemned Israel’s defensive action in Gaza aa genocide. Where are the Irish or the Spanish who criticize Israel, but from whom we hear crickets about the massacre of Iranian demonstrators? BTW I’ve seen reports the the number if dead is more like 20,000.
Why does the U.S. need to intervene in a domestic situation in a country not in our hemisphere????
Doesn’t a government have the right to suppress insurrection and/or sedition?
Or is that just for the U.S?