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 nan outbreak of nationwide protests against nan Ayatollahs successful Tehran, mirroring President Trump’s forceful informing to Tehran.

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

"President Trump’s latest truth 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 promise to assistance Iranian demonstrators comes amid reports that protesters had taken power of galore streets successful Abdanan, successful Ilam state successful western Iran, connected Tuesday. They chanted chanted"Death to Khamenei" and "This twelvemonth is simply a twelvemonth of blood, Seyed Ali (Khamenei) will beryllium overthrown," according to videos sent to Iran International news organization.

The U.S. State Department’s Persian-language account, @USABehFarsi, appeared to rumor a stark informing to Iran’s totalitarian rulers. "President Trump is simply a man of action. If you didn’t cognize before, now you do. Don’t messiness pinch President Trump." The achromatic and achromatic image showed Trump pinch his activity squad watching elite U.S. service forces prehend nan erstwhile Iran-backed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

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

Potkin Azarmehr, a British-Iranian journalist, noted nan opposition pinch erstwhile administrations. "Well, what a opposition to Obama’s clip erstwhile protesters successful Iran successful 2009 were angrily chanting, ‘Obama, are you pinch america aliases pinch them?' Any world support, whether astatine grassroots level aliases authorities level is encouraging. Knowing that nan world knows astir you," he added that "The mobility is wherever are nan Western activistic elite protesters? Why are they not protesting? Are they connected nan broadside of nan Ayatollahs? An archaic belief 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 correct to opportunity that nan replacement to nan existent authorities will travel from wrong Iran. And that Iranians will take their ain leaders. Yes, it’s decidedly amended now. Unfortunately, nan Obama and Biden administrations pushed nan reformist statement (the Reformist statement espoused by Rouhani and Khatami). My proposal to nan Trump administration: enactment neutral erstwhile it comes to nan 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 nan Islamic Republic of Iran — a authorities that has been many times classified by nan State Department arsenic a starring state-sponsor of terrorism.

Nadav Mohebb, who worked arsenic a Persian media expert for nan State Department's Public Affairs Bureau, said astir nan State Department’s Persian-language X relationship that "During nan 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 activity reminiscent of his first word — an attack that has again drawn nan attraction of Iranians. Trump’s connection efficaciously removed nan account’s excessive caution, and complete nan past 4 days its anti-regime reside has noticeably intensified."

President Donald Trump, right, pinch Secretary of State Marco Rubio, 2nd right, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, 3rd right, meets pinch 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 guidance infighting, stay delicate to Iranian nationalist sentiment, and run successful alignment pinch nan prevailing temper of Persian Twitter. I dream Trump’s informing connection to nan authorities will service arsenic a catalyst for upgrading nan messaging strategy of this relationship and restoring its erstwhile effectiveness."

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Reza Parchizadeh, an Iranian-American master connected nan regime, said, "The State Department’s Persian-language relationship is performing effectively. Its messaging is deliberately system to task a consciousness of American support and dream toward Iranian protesters, while besides attempting to bespeak nan breadth and diverseness of protestation activity alternatively than treating it episodically aliases selectively. In itself, this represents a notable displacement successful approach."

He noted that, "The Obama era was fundamentally different successful predisposition and intent. That management prioritized reaching a negotiated accommodation pinch nan Islamic Republic and reintegrating nan authorities into nan world system. Within that framework, celebrated protests and organized guidance wrong Iran were mostly downplayed by nan State Department successful bid to debar complicating negotiations aliases signaling authorities vulnerability."