US President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to come to the aid of protesters in Iran if security forces fire on them, days into unrest that has left several dead and posed the biggest internal threat to Iranian authorities in years.
We are locked and loaded and ready to go, he said in a social media post. The US struck Iranian nuclear facilities in June, joining an Israeli air campaign that targeted Tehrans atomic programme and military leadership.
Top Iranian official Ali Larijani responded to Trumps comments, warning that US interference in domestic Iranian issues would equal the destabilisation of the whole region. Iran backs groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.
