With anti-regime protests reigniting on campuses across Tehran, Iranians received anonymous text messages on their phones, declaring that “the U.S. president is a man of action,” according to the country’s media outlets. People of Iran need to “wait and see” as the regime continues to reject Washington’s core demands, the message in Farsi assured.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
Iranian anti-regime protesters received a mass SMS messaging campaign, stating that US President Donald Trump is “a man of action,” local sources reported on Monday.The messages were written in Farsi, with some reports adding that they included “To the oppressed people of Iran,” as a hook, calling on them to “wait!”
Meanwhile, the first large pro-democracy demonstrations were reported in Tehran after the regime forces massacred thousands of protesters in a deadly clampdown.
“Students at several universities in Iran have staged anti-government protests – the first such rallies on this scale since January’s deadly crackdown by the authorities,” the BBC reported Monday.
“The BBC has verified footage of demonstrators marching on the campus of the Sharif University of Technology in the capital Tehran on Saturday,” the broadcaster added. “They were later seen scuffling with government supporters.”
Students were seen chanting “Death to the Islamic regime,” and hailing the return of the monarchy toppled by the Shia-Islamists in 1979. They burned the reviled regime flag, which is inscribed with “Allahu Akbar” 22 times, and waved the royalist flag with the lion and sun emblem.
Protests, which resumed over the weekend, continued on Monday. “Protests flared for a third consecutive day Monday at universities across Iran, as students returning to campus for the start of the semester intensified their public challenge to the regime in Tehran,” the Israel Hayom newspaper reported.
“The demonstrations, which began at Sharif University of Technology and Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran and have since spread to other institutions nationwide, mark the most significant open opposition to the regime since the brutal suppression of the January protests, during which thousands of demonstrators were killed by security forces,” the daily added.
The protest was met with violence, with the Islamic Guards’ Basij military assaulting students. “Campus protest videos also showed Basij (state-backed paramilitary volunteer forces) at the University of Tehran attacking protesting students,” the British daily Guardian observed.
Amid rising tension, the State Department was telling most of the embassy staff to leave Lebanon, a country dominated by the Iranian proxy terrorist group Hezbollah. According to The Associated Press, “The United States has ordered nonessential diplomats and their family members to leave Lebanon, a State Department official said Monday, as tensions over Iran rise with the threat of a potentially imminent military strike.”
President Trump is considering a limited strike to “nudge along” the nuclear talks with Tehran, some news reports suggest. The USS Gerald R Ford has now reached the Mediterranean Sea, preparing to join another aircraft carrier strike group, the USS Abraham Lincoln, operating in the Middle East.
While refusing to accept President Trump’s key demands, Iran is gearing up for a possible U.S. strike. The regime wants to survive such a strike, hoping to keep its command structure and nuclear weapons program intact. “The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has entrusted Ali Larijani, the top national security official, to ensure the Islamic Republic endures any military attacks,” The New York Times reported Sunday.
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