The State Department’s Farsi-language X account posted a series of ominous messages late Sunday as the Iranian regime conducted missile tests and security forces continued their crack down on demonstrators around the country, defying President Donald Trump’s call for a stop to violence.
“President Trump is a man of action. If you didn’t know, now you know,” the account wrote, a reference to comments Secretary of State Marco Rubio made after Trump sent in the American Special Forces to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro on Saturday.
The post included an image of Trump alongside Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, accompanied by the Farsi-language warning: “Don’t play with President Trump.”
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رئیس‌جمهور ترامپ مرد عمل است.
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Trump reiterated his threat to intervene against the Iranian regime for attacking protesters on Sunday night.
&#8220;If (Iran) starts killing people like they have in the past, I think they&#8217;re gonna get hit very hard by the United States,” Trump said aboard Air Force One.
The death toll has risen to at least 17 during the week-long protest, <a href="https://hengaw.net/en/reports-and-statistics-1/2026/01/article-2">according to</a> the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, with most victims reportedly killed by direct gunfire from regime forces. 
Various videos circulating on social media separately show Iranian security forces violently attacking demonstrators and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/death-to-the-dictator-iranians-defy-regime-for-fourth-consecutive-day-amid-economic-turmoil?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Death+To+The+Dictator%3A%E2%80%99+Iranians+Defy+Regime+For+Fourth+Consecutive+Day+Amid+Economic+Turmoil">protesters chanting</a> anti-regime slogans, including “freedom” and “death to the dictator.”
This comes in the days after Trump warned that this activity would lead to an American response.
“If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Trump posted to Truth Social early Friday morning. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
Iran over the weekend launched missile and air defense exercises, with air defense fire heard in Tehran and Shiraz, Iran International English <a href="https://x.com/IranIntl_En/status/2007913808661193217">reported</a>. Such tests conflict with Trump&#8217;s warning issued last week during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when the president said he would back more Israeli military strikes on Iran if Tehran continues to develop ballistic missiles.
“The missiles, yes. The nuclear, fast,” Trump said. “One would be yes, absolutely, the other was, we’ll do it immediately.” 
Other recent posts from the State Department’s Farsi-language account include a clip of Rubio from the press conference following Maduro’s capture, in which he warned that Trump does not make idle threats.
“I hope people now understand,” the post states, quoting Rubio. “The President of the United States is not a game player. When he tells you he&#8217;s going to do something and address a problem, he means it.”
Another post features Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referencing the U.S. B-2 bomber strike on Iranian nuclear facilities in June during the same press conference.
&#8220;Nicolás Maduro had his chance, just like Iran had their chance — until they didn&#8217;t and until he didn&#8217;t. He F&#8217;d around and he found out,” Hegseth is quoted as saying in the Farsi post.
The growing domestic unrest has posed a serious challenge to the Iranian regime’s grip on power, and has been further complicated by Trump’s bold action against Nicolás Maduro, a close ally of the regime.
According to the New York Times, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the body in charge of internal and external security, had a meeting late Friday night to discuss how to curb the protests without violence, and how to prepare for possible military strikes. Officials said the Islamic Republic is operating in “survival mode,” according to the report.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has attempted to separate the economic grievances that initially sparked nationwide protests from the broader anti-regime demonstrations around the country.
Pezeshkian said last week that merchants who first took to the streets over soaring prices and economic hardship had “legitimate demands,” citing the regime’s failure to prevent the country&#8217;s financial freefall with the Iranian rial losing more than 56 percent of its value over the past six months. The drop has led to a 72 percent increase in food prices compared to last year.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, took a harsher tone against protesters, <a href="https://x.com/khamenei_ir/status/2007450336743588191">posting that</a> the “rioters must be put in their place” and that there is “no point in talking with a rioter.”

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