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Rejecting Trump threats 

The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council has firmly dismissed the latest threats posed by the US president against the country. Ali Larijani called Donald Trump one of the main killers of the Iranian people. In a social media post, Larijani also mentioned Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as another killer of the Iranian people. He was referring to the twelve-day US-Israeli war against Iran in June, which killed more than one-thousand Iranians. Larijani’s remarks came in response to a social media post by Trump, calling on the rioters in Iran to take over the country’s state institutions, and vowing that help is on its way. Trump also demanded that the rioters save the names of what he called the killers and abusers, threatening that they will pay a big price. Over the past days, Iran has been the scene of highly violent riots the exploited people's concerns about the rising cost of living. Authorities have acknowledged the legitimacy of economic grievances, and vowed to address them, which are directly linked to unilateral US sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank and oil exports.

Slamming Trump threats 

Iran has accused US President Donald Trump of encouraging political destabilization and inciting violence in the country. Iran's UN ambassador made the comment in a letter to the UN chief and the president of the Security Council. Amir Saeid Iravani said Trump seeks a pretext for military intervention in Iran. He asserted that by supporting violent rioters, which have killed hundreds of people in Iran, Trump is threatening the country’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national security. The Iranian ambassador said the US and the Israeli regime bear direct and undeniable legal responsibility for the resulting loss of innocent civilian lives, particularly among the youth. Iran's UN mission also said in a social media post that US fantasies and policy toward Iran are rooted in regime change. It noted that through sanctions, threats, engineered unrest, and chaos, Washington seeks to manufacture a pretext for military intervention in Iran. Stressing that this playbook has failed before, the mission emphasized that the Iranian people will defend their country and, most assuredly, the US will fail again.

Debunking Trump lies 

The largest civil rights group in the United States has accused President Donald Trump of being deceptive in his comments about "reverse discrimination" and in his claims that civil rights hurt white people. The NAACP asserted that Trump uses deception to lay groundwork for rolling back social progress. The NAACP said Trump is lying through his teeth, adding that the issue isn't that he is unaware of the history or lacks education, it's that deception is the point. It said there is "zero evidence that the civil rights movement has harmed white people in any way. The group noted that the US president deliberately invents a false reality to lay the groundwork for policies that further benefit the top one percent. The NAACP said Trump's policies seek to privatize government services and strip resources away from underserved communities. The new development came at a time that Trump is under fire from rights groups over his immigration crackdown, assault on diversity initiatives, and funding freeze against universities over pro-Palestinian protests.

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