Iran

January 2, 2026

Republican slams Trump’s latest foreign policy pledge

In one of his increasingly common late-night posting sessions, Donald Trump on Friday threatened to attack Iran if the government killed protestors. In response, one of Trump’s most prominent GOP critics claimed that the president’s “threat isn’t about freedom of speech in Iran,” and laid out what he suspected were the true motivations.At a little before 3 a.m. ET, Trump took to Truth Social with a post about recent violence emerging from nationwide protests in Iran, following a report about the story on Fox News. Iranian shopkeepers and students have been taking to the streets in large…