Over the course of the last ten days, the Middle Eastern nation of Iran has been the focal point of the geopolitical turbulence being felt around the world.
This isn’t necessarily anything new for Iran, who have been fully committed to rocking the international boat for decades now. Their latest tiff with the United States has produced not only the assassination of Tehran’s terror leader General Qasem Soleimani, but also a 15 rocket attack on American troops in Baghdad that caused the downing of a Ukrainian civilian airliner.
Now, as if Iran wasn’t already under the global microscope, the fine people of the Persian nation are rising up, hoping to overthrow the Islamic regime.
Hundreds of Iranian protesters demanded Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei step down on Saturday after Tehran admitted that its military had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing all 176 people on board.“Commander-in-chief [Khamenei] resign, resign,” videos posted on Twitter showed hundreds of people chanting in front of Tehran’s Amir Kabir university.Demonstrators on Saturday ripped up pictures of Soleimani during the protests.
US President Donald Trump weighed in as well.
In a show of solidarity with the people of Iran against the regime, Trump tweeted: “To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I’ve stood with you since the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage.”
Trump went on to tweet the same message again, but in Farsi.
