In a rarely seen display of moral clarity, President Donald Trump has expressed outrage at footage showing masked security forces firing on, and killing, government protesters. Oh, in Iran.
“Absolutely terrible… horrific images,” Trump declared from behind a backdrop of golf memorabilia and unread legal briefs.
“When a government shoots its own people simply for protesting against them… that’s weak leadership. Very weak.”
The protests in Iran, sparked by economic hardship and demands for political freedom, have drawn global scrutiny as demonstrators face state violence, a development Trump described with the kind of concern usually reserved for international reality TV finales.
“If they’re killing their own citizens from behind the mask of anonymity… we might have to do something big. Really big.”
Trump’s foreign-policy team rallied behind his statements on Iran, emphasising that no nation should harm its own people simply for protesting, insisting that such heavy-handed responses to protest was very much against America’s ‘western ideals’ and ‘freedom of speech’.
Trump is said to be considering military intervention to bring an end to the Iranian regime.
He went on, “What the government there is doing to its own people goes far beyond all reasonable bounds.
“Only the very weakest leader would authorise his masked police to shoot and kill protesters. They probably need to go.”
