Trump Is Holding the Iranian People Responsible for His Failure
In a social media post, the president expresses frustration that Iranians are not rising up against their regime. He does not understand Iranian reality.
In Iran, death sentences are raining down on people who were involved in the brutally suppressed protests of January 2026. The machinery of death is running. To keep to officially verified numbers, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights reported at the beginning of August — that is, a month ago — that at least 27 people had been executed. There have been more since then.
During the protests, President Donald Trump promised the demonstrators that “help is on its way,” apparently with completed war plans in his pocket. Immediately after the war began, he specified: When the United States had finished its job, the Iranians were to take over their government. When the United States, five weeks later, had not finished its job at all, he threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight.”
Everyone Will Be Punished
“When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, with the counterfactual name Truth Social, seemingly frustrated as the war continued into the second half of this year. Not every one of Trump’s comments should be taken seriously with regard to politics. But this is in line with the policy of harsh economic measures and military strikes on infrastructure now being implemented by the United States, which is heavily impacting not only the Islamic Republic’s regime, but also its people.
Is it intended to impact them? Until they can’t bear it anymore and “rise up"? Historically, that has only worked when a regime was so rotten that it no longer had the energy to kill everyone who stood against it. There is no indication of this in Tehran’s regime; the leadership’s few remaining pragmatists aren’t changing anything either. But Trump will probably post one day: “The Iranians aren’t worth it.”
In Iran, death sentences are raining down on people who were involved in the brutally suppressed protests of January 2026. The machinery of death is running. To keep to officially verified numbers, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights reported at the beginning of August — that is, a month ago — that at least 27 people had been executed. There have been more since then.
During the protests, President Donald Trump promised the demonstrators that “help is on its way,” apparently with completed war plans in his pocket. Immediately after the war began, he specified: When the United States had finished its job, the Iranians were to take over their government. When the United States, five weeks later, had not finished its job at all, he threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight.”
Everyone Will Be Punished
“When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, with the counterfactual name Truth Social, seemingly frustrated as the war continued into the second half of this year. Not every one of Trump’s comments should be taken seriously with regard to politics. But this is in line with the policy of harsh economic measures and military strikes on infrastructure now being implemented by the United States, which is heavily impacting not only the Islamic Republic’s regime, but also its people.
Is it intended to impact them? Until they can’t bear it anymore and “rise up"? Historically, that has only worked when a regime was so rotten that it no longer had the energy to kill everyone who stood against it. There is no indication of this in Tehran’s regime; the leadership’s few remaining pragmatists aren’t changing anything either. But Trump will probably post one day: “The Iranians aren’t worth it.”
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