Iran protesters emboldened by Trump admin’s Persian messaging after Obama-Biden inaction, activists say

The State Department has intensified its disapproval of Iran’s authorities connected its Persian-language relationship since the outbreak of nationwide protests against the Ayatollahs successful Tehran, mirroring President Trump’s forceful informing to Tehran.

Trump precocious posted, "If Iran shots (sic) and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America volition travel to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and acceptable to go. Thank you for your attraction to this matter! President DONALD J.TRUMP."

"President Trump’s latest information societal station regarding Iran speaks for itself, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday.

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Protesters march successful downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025.  (Fars News Agency via AP)

The State Department’s reinforcement of Trump’s pledge to assistance Iranian demonstrators comes amid reports that protesters had taken power of galore streets successful Abdanan, successful Ilam state successful occidental Iran, connected Tuesday. They chanted chanted"Death to Khamenei" and "This twelvemonth is simply a twelvemonth of blood, Seyed Ali (Khamenei) volition beryllium overthrown," according to videos sent to Iran International quality organization.

The U.S. State Department’s Persian-language account, @USABehFarsi, appeared to contented a stark informing to Iran’s totalitarian rulers. "President Trump is simply a antheral of action. If you didn’t cognize before, present you do. Don’t messiness with President Trump." The achromatic and achromatic representation showed Trump with his enactment squad watching elite U.S. service forces prehend the erstwhile Iran-backed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

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Trump's societal media posts and the statements coming from the State Department's relationship person emboldened Iranians some wrong and extracurricular of the country.

Potkin Azarmehr, a British-Iranian journalist, noted the opposition with erstwhile administrations. "Well, what a opposition to Obama’s clip erstwhile protesters successful Iran successful 2009 were angrily chanting, ‘Obama, are you with america oregon with them?' Any planetary support, whether astatine grassroots level oregon authorities level is encouraging. Knowing that the satellite knows astir you," helium added that "The question is wherever are the Western activistic elite protesters? Why are they not protesting? Are they connected the broadside of the Ayatollahs? An archaic spiritual apartheid?"

Barack Obama and Joe Biden faced disapproval for their muted responses to Iran protests during their administrations. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran analyst, Alirzeza Nader, said, "I deliberation State is close to accidental that the alternate to the existent authorities volition travel from wrong Iran. And that Iranians volition take their ain leaders. Yes, it’s decidedly amended now. Unfortunately, the Obama and Biden administrations pushed the reformist enactment (the Reformist enactment espoused by Rouhani and Khatami). My proposal to the Trump administration: enactment neutral erstwhile it comes to the opposition’s leadership. Let Iranians fig it out."

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The erstwhile Iranian presidents Hassan Rouhani and Mohammad Khatami, promised mild reforms but stay wedded to the Islamic Republic of Iran — a authorities that has been repeatedly classified by the State Department arsenic a starring state-sponsor of terrorism.

Nadav Mohebb, who worked arsenic a Persian media expert for the State Department's Public Affairs Bureau, said astir the State Department’s Persian-language X relationship that "During the Biden administration, this relationship was efficaciously turned into a shade municipality and mostly mislaid its relevance and impact."

He said that, "Following President Trump’s caller tweet, we person seen a renewed level of enactment reminiscent of his archetypal word — an attack that has again drawn the attraction of Iranians. Trump’s connection efficaciously removed the account’s excessive caution, and implicit the past 4 days its anti-regime code has noticeably intensified."

President Donald Trump, right, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, 2nd right, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, 3rd right, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping astatine Gimhae International Airport successful Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025.  (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Mohebb said that" The relationship should debar engagement successful absorption infighting, stay delicate to Iranian nationalist sentiment, and run successful alignment with the prevailing temper of Persian Twitter. I anticipation Trump’s informing connection to the authorities volition service arsenic a catalyst for upgrading the messaging strategy of this relationship and restoring its erstwhile effectiveness."

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Reza Parchizadeh, an Iranian-American adept connected the regime, said, "The State Department’s Persian-language relationship is performing effectively. Its messaging is deliberately structured to task a consciousness of American enactment and anticipation toward Iranian protesters, portion besides attempting to bespeak the breadth and diverseness of protestation enactment alternatively than treating it episodically oregon selectively. In itself, this represents a notable displacement successful approach."

He noted that, "The Obama epoch was fundamentally antithetic successful predisposition and intent. That medication prioritized reaching a diplomatic accommodation with the Islamic Republic and reintegrating the authorities into the planetary system. Within that framework, fashionable protests and organized absorption wrong Iran were mostly downplayed by the State Department successful bid to debar complicating negotiations oregon signaling authorities vulnerability."