An anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitator in Florida was arrested after allegedly punching a trooper in the face during an immigration enforcement operation.
“This is Jennifer Cruz of Jacksonville,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote in an X post, sharing an image of the woman, who appeared to smile as law enforcement restrained her.
Moments before she cracked a grin, video shows Cruz kicking toward a female officer while other law enforcement members had already placed her hands behind her back.
“Jennifer disagrees with immigration enforcement and decided to commit a few felonies by getting out of her car and punching a Trooper in the face. But unlike Minnesota, we don’t put up with this nonsense. Not today, Jennifer,” Uthmeier wrote.
Authorities were seen restraining Jennifer Cruz, who allegedly punched a Florida trooper during an immigration enforcement operation. (@AGJamesUthmeier on X)
Footage shows a chaotic scene as authorities attempted to detain Cruz. As several officers placed her hands behind her back and walked her toward one of their vehicles, Cruz is seen attempting to kick another female officer nearby. Cruz then smirks as the officers detaining her place her on the hood of a vehicle. Once placed in the back of the vehicle, she is seen flailing her legs and continuing to shout at officers until the doors are shut.
A News4JAX reporter spoke to Juan Alvarez, the owner of the Mi Pueblo grocery store which was near where the incident occurred. He said he witnessed a traffic stop involving a state trooper.
“ICE agents showed up with the state trooper. They detained the driver,” he said.
“And so yeah, they had an operation going on. And after that, they had detained another person. But it seems they got into an altercation with that person. It turned violent,” he said, noting that more law enforcement showed up.
With the evidence building like a snowball rolling down a winter hill, the Somali Slut Omar, who amassed $30 million large in one year is guilty of a multitude of crimes. Now is the time to take action and send her back to where she came from.
OMAR THE UNITED FUCKIN STATES
Ilhan Omar refers to ‘US God—- States’ during impassioned remarks about ICE
Omar calls Republicans ‘appalling’ for going along with ICE tactics
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., likened the U.S. government’s conduct on immigration enforcement to that of countries like Somalia that she left, saying in impassioned remarks Friday that she never thought she’d experience such conduct in the “god—-” United States.
“I don’t want to curse, but those of us who escaped places like that, the one place where we thought we would never experience this is the U.S. [sic] god—-” states,” she said at a Democratic field hearing in St. Paul, entitled, “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Deadly Assault on Minnesota.”
“And we should all be ashamed that it is the United States that is allowing for this to take place, and it is being… broadcast to the rest of the world, where people are calling and saying, ‘Are you sure this is America?’ I am ashamed, and we must do everything that we can to bring back the America we all escaped into.”
Omar, who was born in Somalia and whose district covers much of Minneapolis, has been outspoken against the Trump administration and its deployment of ICE agents amid crackdowns on illegal immigration and fraud in the city and state. With the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent as a flash point, critics say ICE agents are engaging in strong-arm tactics meant to intimidate the populace.
Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks to the media following a field hearing at the Minnesota Senate Building in St. Paul on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Minneapolis and St. Paul are already hosting some 3,000 federal agents deployed there after a massive fraud scandal rocked the state late last year. President Donald Trump has floated invoking the Insurrection Act to quell unrest in the state, although he appeared to back off the idea on Friday.
Omar’s comments sparked ire from Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and other conservative figures online. Lee posted on X, “No member of Congress should *ever* refer to our country as the ‘U.S. G—— States.’ What should be the consequence of saying that?”
Billionaire Elon Musk replied, “Whatever the penalty is for treason,” which can be as severe as execution.
When my constituents call for help, we don’t ask them who they voted for, because that is what it means to be an elected U.S. representative,” she said. “So it is appalling for our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to be OK for the president to carry out retribution here in Minnesota.
“It is appalling for our Republican colleagues to be OK for there to be cell detentions in ICE for American citizens,” she went on. “It is appalling for them to be OK for there to be checkpoints in American cities where people are asked for their papers. And it is appalling for Americans to have to carry their citizen papers only to be told they are not sure those papers are correct.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Omar and Lee’s offices for additional comment.
For instance, her fraudulent marriage, see below. Then here husband who she has been implicated to, via payoffs to her and the Somali criminals she represents in Minneapolis. A district where the Criminal Somali gangs say that “WHITE MEN ARE NOT TO ENCROACH ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.” We say to them, try to stop DHS and ICE. They will get you one way or another.
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House, feds probe to unravel mystery of ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing wealth: ‘It’s not possible’
Published Jan. 17, 2026, 8:45 a.m. ET2.8K Comments
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The House Oversight Committee is probing “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing family wealth after a $9 billion Somali social services fraud scandal exploded in her district,The Post has learned.
Oversight panel Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said staff lawyers are exploring the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Omar’s spouse over his allegedly shady business practices.
“We’re going to get answers, whether it’s through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two,” he told The Post.
Rep. Ilhan Omar revealed husband, Tim Mynett’s ownership stake in her financial disclosure, which showed a sudden jump in wealth.Bloomberg via Getty Images
Republicans want to know how Somali-born Omar (D-Minn.) and her politically-connected husband Tim Mynett went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms.
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“There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years,” Comer said. “It’s not possible. It’s not. I’m a money guy. It’s not possible.”
Separately, federal law enforcement is also probing.
“We are investigating all politicians potentially connected to any of this [fraud] in Minnesota. You can read between the lines,” said a law enforcement source.
Unlike the Biden administration, which took no apparent action, Team Trump is “on top of it,” the source said.
The comments came as The Post learned the FBI was briefed during the Biden administration on suspicions about an array of companies run by Omar’s hubby.
This Washington home is listed as one of the couple’s addresses.Andrew Thomas – CNP for NY PostHouse Oversight Committee lawyers are exploring a possible subpoena for Mynett over his business practices.@TimMynett/X
Investment firm Rose Lake Capital, formed by Mynett and partner Will Hailer in 2022, is part of a web of companies created by the lefty “Squad” member’s husband of five years.
Rose Lake Capital had a paltry $42.44 in its bank account in late 2022, according to court documents in a lawsuit against a related company filed in South Dakota.
Yet the firm rocketed in value from zero to up to $25 million in just a year, according to Omar’s 2024 filing.
Associates were perplexed enough in 2024 about alleged irregularities and questions about where the money was coming from that they brought information to the attention of federal investigators, sources said.
Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1982. According to the biography posted on her own website, she lived there for around eight years before her family fled to a refugee camp in Kenya, moving to the United States four years later, and eventually settling in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis in 1997.
In a 2018 interview with the Intercept website’s “Deconstructed” podcast, Omar said she became a naturalized U.S. citizen before she turned 18 years old, explaining that “My father became a citizen and so I got my citizenship through that process.”
In the same interview, she said her family resettled in the U.S. in 1995. Since a would-be naturalized citizen must first live in the U.S. as a permanent resident for five years, 2000 would be the earliest year in which Omar’s father (and Omar herself) could become citizens. Since Omar was born in October 1982, she turned 18 in October 2000. So, based on the sequence of events presented by Omar, it appears she became a U.S. citizen at the age of 17, sometime between January and October 2000 —
Although Omar’s account makes sense, and we found no substantive dispute over it, we were unable to locate any official documentation that supports that version of events. We asked Omar’s spokesperson and district director to provide any official documentation that would confirm the date of her naturalization, but we received no such evidence.
The Congresswoman’s spokesperson reiterated that she became a U.S. citizen in 2000 and pointed out that an individual cannot be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives without demonstrating citizenship, but the spokesperson did not have Omar’s “personal government documents.”
Until and unless evidence of that nature becomes available to us, definitively establishing that Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 she has pull off one of the greatest cons in history.
Excerpts above taken from article by Dan MacGuill Published 16 July 2019
In the AP story, Omar’s replies to all this are those of the victim combined with overtones of the royal “we”:
“We choose not to further the narratives of those who would oppose us” Omar’s statement said, adding that she believes the claims are being made by people who want to stop a black, female Muslim from sitting in Congress.
The chronology of all this, briefly, follows:
1982 — Born in Somalia;
1991 — Went to refugee camp in Kenya;
1995 — Came to United States as a refugee, becoming a citizen at some later point;
2002 — Took out a marriage license to marry Ahmed Hirsi (AKA Ahmed Aden), but did not marry him except in a Muslim ceremony; they had two kids;
2008 — Parted from Hirsi; a Muslim divorce, not recorded, took place;
2009 — Married Ahmed Elmi; a marriage certificate exists;
2011 — Parted from Elmi, with a Muslim divorce;
2012 — Reunited with Hirsi and had a third child;
2017 — Formally divorced Elmi (after being elected to the legislature);
2018 — Married (re-married?) Hirsi and was nominated for Congress.
At the very least, a busy lady — one with a fondness for guys named Ahmed.
It is outrageous that her father got a job at the post office when so many of our citizens are unemployed. How did that happen? Secondly, she became a professional nutrition educator at the University of Minnesota. No doctorate here. Omar also wrote, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.
In November 2021, Republican Representative Lauren Boebert said she had shared an elevator with Omar, and that she and a Capitol Police officer both mistook Omar for a terrorist. Boebert referred to Omar as the “Jihad Squad”. Omar said that she had not shared an elevator with Boebert, that the story was made up, and that Boebert’s comments were “anti-Muslim bigotry”.
Omar’s campaign was the E Street Group’s biggest moneymaker.
The connection between Omar’s campaign and Mynett’s consulting firm was brought to national attention by her critics and opponents.
In response to the critics, Omar’s campaign terminated its contract with Mynett’s firm on November 17, 2020, saying the termination was to “make sure that anybody who is supporting our campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support.”
Over the years, Omar has faced criticisms of her marriage and claims that she married her brother for years.
Former President Donald Trump fanned the flames of those allegations in July 2019 saying “There’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it.”
When Omar was seeking a state House seat in 2016, the conservative sites flagged a screenshot of a since deleted Instagram post that was allegedly uploaded by Elmi on June 12, 2012.
The caption of the photograph posted shortly after Omar gave birth to her third child identified Elmi as holding the baby girl, calling her his niece.
Post from 2023 below:
SLUT OMAR RECEIVES THREATS AFTER SPILLING VILE FROM HER DIARRHEA MOUTH –
“I’m from a militant group,” one caller said, per the outlet. “I can’t wait till our group sees you one day and I can rip your f***ing rag off your head. … I hope the Israelis kill every f***ing one of you.”
“You work for this country,” another caller was heard saying. “Pull your f***ing head out of your f***ing turban-wearing a** and f***ing see the light of day, you dumba** f***ing terrorist-supporting f***ing piece of s***.”
Omar eventually walked back her initial reaction to the hospital bombing, blaming “the fog of war” and “misinformation” on X, formerly Twitter. The Minnesota representative continued to call for an investigation into the attack.
We hope that PresidentTrump is placing his assets in the Middle East, waiting for the opportune time to strike. Like a snake waiting diligently to attack its prey,Trump has learned that the best offense is a surprise attack. Iran is waiting for the missiles to arrive, for they know from previous experience what the U.S. is capable of. Soon, the world will know that the word went out from the Commander in Chief to bring down the IRGC, Ayatolla Khamenei and the mullahs. But in the end it is up to the people.
WATCH: Anti-regime activists hack Iran’s national broadcaster, transmit Pahlavi’s calls to protest
Anti-regime activists hacked Iran’s Badr satellite, briefly taking over state TV broadcasts to air protest messages and appeals by Reza Pahlavi, according to Iran International and Manoto News.
ByJAMES GENNJANUARY 18, 2026 22:35Updated: JANUARY 18, 2026 22:41
Anti-regime activists hacked Iran’s Badr satellite on Sunday, allowing them to access state TV channels and broadcast exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi‘s calls for Iranians to protest against the Islamic Republic, anti-regime outlets reported.
The footage was also shared by Pahlavi’s media department.
In the video, the broadcast appears to include messages in Farsi encouraging protesters to continue their activities, media footage of solidarity protests worldwide, and messages of support from international leaders.
گزارشگر منوتو با ارسال این ویدیو از هک شدن کانالهای تلویزیونی صداوسیمای جمهوری اسلامی میگوید. pic.twitter.com/ZkeHBmtaI4
The mayor of Minneapolis has participated in the turmoil, killings and mayhem of his once beautiful city. But he continues to fan the flames of violence. Suddenly, he got religion because of ICE and Homeland Security. These guys don’t f..k around, they are leg breakers in the true sense of the word. The latest from this POS is has turned tail realizing that you can’t beat Uncle Sam.
Minneapolis Mayor who told ICE to ‘get the f— out’ now calls for peace after another shooting incident
Jacob Frey’s tone shift comes after an illegal immigrant was shot by federal agent after an alleged ambush shovel attack
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday called for peace amid escalating protests, a sharp shift in tone after he demanded days earlier that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “get the f— out” of the city.
Frey appeared at a late news conference after an illegal immigrant from Venezuela was shot in the leg after he allegedly ambushed a federal agent with a shovel.
“I’m calling for peace,” Frey told reporters. “Everybody has a role in achieving that peace, and we’re going to try and do everything we can to keep it.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks to the media at City Hall Jan. 9. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)
Frey has repeatedly condemned ICE’s immigration enforcement operations and again called for ICE to leave Minneapolis.
“There’s still a lot that we don’t know at this time, but what I can tell you for certain is that this is not sustainable,” he said. “This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in.
“We’re in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street,” he added. “We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another.”
He said ICE and U.S. Border Patrol agents were “creating chaos” despite many being confronted, sometimes violently, by protesters upset at the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign.
“I’ve seen conduct by ICE that is disgusting and intolerable,” he said.
He urged protesters not to “take the bait” from President Donald Trump.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called for peace amid violent protests directed toward federal authorities. (Getty Images)
“And for anyone that is taking the bait tonight, stop,” he said. “That is not helpful. … You are not helping the undocumented immigrants in our city. You are not helping the people that call this place home.”
The mayor’s tone was a stark difference from the tirade he unleashed last week following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent.
“To ICE, get the f— out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” Frey said during a press conference after the shooting. “Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.”
On Wednesday, Frey maintained that he has not engaged in violent rhetoric.
“Show a single place where I have encouraged anything other than peace. Show me a single place where we have encouraged violence,” Frey added.
The Department of Homeland Security said a federal agent opened fire on an illegal immigrant who allegedly fled a traffic stop and then beat the agent with a snow shovel.
On Thursday, Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if local authorities failed to restore control.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of ICE, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” he raged in a Truth Social post.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday pleaded with Trump to “turn the temperature down.”
“The buck stops with you, Governor,” the post states. “Tone down the hostile, inflammatory anti-ICE rhetoric. Honor our immigration detainers. And work with ICE to remove criminal illegal aliens from MN streets.”
Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.
Let us get this strait, an illegal criminal has been exposted by DHS while working as a NYC council employee. The Muslim mayor fumes over his arrest saying on X, this is “An Assault on our Democracy, on our city and our values.”
Following outrage from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani over the arrest of a city council employee, the Department of Homeland Security shared that the individual arrested is an illegal immigrant with a previous arrest for assault.
According to DHS, the employee, Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, 53, is a “criminal illegal alien” from Venezuela. The agency said that despite Rubio Bohorquez being employed by the city council of America’s largest city, he has no work authorization and was illegally employed.
Further, DHS said that Rubio Bohorquez has a criminal history, including an arrest for assault in New York.
Rubio Bohorquez entered the United States on a B2 tourist visa in 2017, which required him to depart the same year, according to DHS.
DHS said the New York City Council employee it arrested, Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, is a Venezuelan illegal immigrant with a criminal history. (DHS)
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the fact that “a criminal illegal alien with no authorization” was employed by the New York City Council “shocking.”
“This takes sanctuary city to a whole new level,” said McLaughlin.
“This criminal illegal alien has no authority to be in the U.S. and has a previous arrest for assault. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, the United States is no longer a safe haven for criminals.”
Mamdani and other city leaders demanded the man’s release on Monday.
“I am outraged to hear a New York City Council employee was detained in Nassau County by federal immigration officials at a routine immigration appointment,” Mamdani wrote in a statement on X.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected in November 2025 and sworn in as the city’s first socialist mayor Jan. 1, 2026. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
He called the arrest “an assault on our democracy, on our city and our values. I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation.”
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin held a news conference demanding the employee’s release Monday. She claimed the employee had been cleared to remain in the U.S. until October 2026.
DHS, however, maintains that he has no authorization to even be in the U.S.
“DHS confirmed that this employee had gone in for a routine court appointment and was nevertheless detained. They provided no other basis for his detainment,” Menin said during a press briefing Monday. “On the contrary, he was a city council employee who is doing everything right. He went to the court when he was asked.”
Monetary authorities are meeting behind closed doors planning the devaluation of the dollar. Currently, we see Gold erupting toward the $5,000 per ounce mark, but Silver is leading the charge toward $100 per ounce. These volcanic eruptions are not in isolation, but we will see the Western Currency Alliance, AKA Bretton Woods, collapse. Those who don’t embrace the new paradigm will soon find that their imploding fiat currencies are worth less than the paper they are printed on.
Now approaching $100 at withering speed. An unthinkable valuation for the non-believers. This flies in the face of budget busters, bureaucrats and plain old leech mongers.
If you like it or not we are entering a New World Order. Where hard money will replace the wallpaper hung by Keynesian money printers. We insist that you purchase your ticket before the local becomes an express. We are going Weimar, believe it or not.
If there was ever a time to send a message, it is now. This is make it or break it time. Trump will go down as an American Hero if he takes action to eradicate the Islamic Revolution.
Ayatollah’s vail threats fall on deaf ears. Trump is getting his ducks in order. Remember the Bunker Busters that collapsed Iran’s nuclear sites back to the stone age. Some of these clandestine operations take time; patience is key here.
Netanyahu and Rubio discuss US military intervention in Iran amid ongoing nationwide protests: report
Israel on ‘high alert’ as anti-regime demonstrations across Iran hit two-week mark
Here us out! Decision time has come. The world dynamic has changed, Russia will make a move on you; then what will you do? The question arises, is it better to be affiliated with the United States or an authoritarian regime run by Vlad. He has his sights on you. You can’t rely on NATO at this point in time. Because you know the world has changed at warp speed. It’s time to make a decision.
Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’
Published Fri, Jan 9 20264:23 PM ESTUpdated Fri, Jan 9 20265:03 PM EST
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President Donald Trump said his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not.”
“I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” Trump said at the White House.
The Trump administration has recently said it is weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.
U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters, as he attends a meeting with oil industry executives, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 9, 2026.
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President Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.
“I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
The comments came during a meeting with oil executives to discuss the prospect of doing business in Venezuela. Less than a week earlier, the U.S. military invaded the oil-rich South American nation and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro.
Trump has long sought to take over Greenland, primarily citing the Arctic island’s importance for U.S. national security.
Denmark and its European allies in NATO – the military alliance co-founded by the U.S. – have pushed back, reiterating that Greenland is not for sale. But the Trump administration nevertheless says it is currently weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.
People participate in a protest and noise demonstration calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations in the city, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota prosecutor on Friday called on the public to share with investigators any recordings and evidence connected to the fatal shooting of Renee Good as a new video emerged showing the final moments of her encounter with an immigration officer.
The Minneapolis killing and a separate shooting in Portland, Oregon, a day later by the Border Patrol have set off protests in multiple cities and denunciations of immigration enforcement tactics by the U.S. government. The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents.
The reaction to the shooting has largely been focused on witness cellphone video of the encounter. A new, 47-second video that was published online by a Minnesota-based conservative news site, Alpha News, and later reposted on social media by the Department of Homeland Security shows the shooting from the perspective of ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who fired the shots
Sirens blaring in the background, he approaches and circles Good’s vehicle in the middle of the road while apparently filming on his cellphone. At the same time, Good’s wife also was recording the encounter and can be seen walking around the vehicle and approaching the officer. A series of exchanges occurred:
“That’s fine, I’m not mad at you,” Good says as the officer passes by her door. She has one hand on the steering wheel and the other outside the open driver side window.
“U.S. citizen, former f—ing veteran,” says her wife, standing outside the passenger side of the SUV holding up her phone. “You wanna come at us, you wanna come at us, I say go get yourself some lunch big boy.”
Other officers are approaching the driver’s side of the car at about the same time and one says: “Get out of the car, get out of the f—ing car.” Ross is now at the front driver side of the vehicle. Good reverses briefly, then turns the steering wheel toward the passenger side as she drives ahead and Ross opens fire.
The camera becomes unsteady and points toward the sky and then returns to the street view showing Good’s SUV careening away.
To bring in the New World Order, Trump must go all in on the Mullahs, Khamenei must be taken out, same way he took out Marduro.We have had enough of Ayatollah’s threats, now with coordination of Israel, the United States can wipe these belligerent MoFos from the face of the earth. They have been sponsoring terrorism with Russia throughout the world. The Iranian people are behind the U.S., they can’t afford to lose this opportunity now.
Keane warns Iranian regime to take Trump ‘dead serious’ on protest killing threat amid ongoing demonstrations
Retired general says Iran at ‘weakest point’ in 45 years as anti-regime demonstrations enter second week
“If I was in the Iranian regime, I would take President Trump dead serious here,” Keane warned.
On Friday, President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go” if the Iranian regime shoots and kills protesters.
His message comes as anti-regime demonstrations enter their second week and at least 44 protesters have been killed by Iranian security, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Keane declared the Iranian regime is at its “weakest point” in 45 years with “no prospect of recovering.”
Noting Trump’s warning under “no uncertain terms,” Keanelisted other key differences about the anti-regime protests that stood out to him from previous demonstrations in Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sits next to a senior military official in Iran. (Getty Images)
“Politically, [the Iranian regime] can’t meet the social and political and economic aspirations of the people. Economically, they’re in the tank, to be sure, and with no prospect of recovering,” Keane added.
“And, militarily, they just lost a war. They’ve lost their platform in Syria. Their proxies are, by and large, decapitated and almost eliminated, to be sure,” he added. “The result of all of that is they are in a fundamentally weak position, and it’s serious in terms of the regime.”
"Where Revolution is the Solution" Taking back the Empire
