President Trump has just become the first sitting US President to explicitly warn that the United States stands ready to directly intervene in Iran if Tehran authorities begin killing peaceful protesters, as he wrote Friday that Washington “will come to their rescue”. In a brief early morning post on Truth Social, he wrote: “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.” He gave no further details what course of action this might take, but it’s a pretty clear and provocative message to Iranian leadership – or comes very close to saying something akin to the ‘Ayatollah must go’. Trump’s full message is as follows: “If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue.” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did respond in very short fashion, with a senior aide from his office saying Trump should “be careful” if he intervened, warning of unleashing more chaos in the region. “Trump should know that US interference in this internal matter would mean destabilizing the entire region and destroying America’s interests,” Khamenei adviser Ali Larijani stated. The economic protests which have been raging since Sunday, and have spread from the marketplaces to the […]