The BBC report over 100 protestors have been killed including security personnel, with 70 bodies brought to one hospital in Rasht in a single night, staff at three hospitals “overwhelmed with the injured and dead,” direct shots through the eyes and hearts, with over 2,500 arrested.
This has been very public, documented, verified, despite the communication crackdown operating like the recent White House censorship of a 60 minutes investigation.
Trump has responded to the news by threatening to attack Iran “very hard” if they “start killing people”, long after people already have been killed in droves.
If…?
He knows.
His use of “if” isn’t a bald statement of ignorance, it’s his spin style. He wants to warm his military up to Iran First, an Iranian lives matter operation, despite everyone seeing that American lives don’t.
| Iran | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Protesters killed by | Security forces: 100+ confirmed dead, 70 bodies to one hospital in single night | Security forces: 30+ dead in custody (2025), seven dead in December alone, citizens being shot in vehicles and on the streets |
| Trump’s response | “If they start killing people” when they already have | Falsely accuses protestors of being “brainwashed” and frames all resistance to federal shock troops as criminal. |
| Threat level | Threatens military strikes | Expands crackdown enforcement, doubles security force, shortens training to 6 weeks, ignores courts |
| Government transparency | Condemns Iran’s internet blackout | Forces illegal oversight ban a day after execution of citizen, defying courts; pressures networks to suppress critical coverage |
| Rule of law | Demands Iran respect protesters’ rights | Demands protestors abandon rights, ignores security force crimes and defies court orders; judges rule administration “lied” about threats |
| First Amendment | Condemns suppression of dissent | Continues suppression of dissent. Targets political opposition for security force intimidation. Federal judge: Trump has “no respect for First Amendment rights” |
| Official designation of protesters | Attorney General: “enemy of God” | VP: “brainwashed”; DHS: “terrorists” |
The “if” of Trump was a calculated lie. It means the American Pineapple Face is performing regime change theater, with zero humanitarian concern behind the curtain.
Iranian deaths are spun as useful data points, to justify a military action he (e.g. Israel) already wants.
American deaths are inconvenient and being spun the other direction as worthless, since any value would expose the deaths and destruction of rights that Trump “grab-em” actually produces.
The American detention death toll of Trump is staggering. The first year of his second administration has been even deadlier than 2020, when the unchecked COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the high death toll in his facilities.
Calling ICE detention plans a death camp operation would not be an exaggeration.
To be clear, the “if” functions as pre-authorization for more killing. By pretending killing hasn’t started, Trump positions future military action to start killing as being responsive rather than aggressive. That’s his foundational lie, avoiding all accountability.
Meanwhile the actual killing his administration does gets fraudulently reframed as self-defense against “terrorists.” That’s the expanded lie, avoiding all accountability.
Foreign protesters are framed with “God-given rights to freedom.” Meanwhile the domestic protesters have no rights, preemptively redefined as criminals for even daring to think they are free. Foreign governments killing protesters is an outrage justifying military intervention. American government killing Americans is blackout stuff, nothing to see, no investigations.
Same playbook, opposite spin, based entirely on which lie serves the American Pineapple Face agenda and avoids accountability for killing.
Killed by Trump’s shock troops:
- Renee Nicole Good, 37, Minneapolis – January 7, 2026. US citizen, poet, mother. Shot at a traffic checkpoint. Governor declared “Renee Good Day.”
- Keith Porter Jr., 43, Los Angeles – December 31, 2025. US citizen, father of two. Shot by off-duty ICE agent during New Year’s Eve celebration.
- Silverio Villegas González, 38, Chicago – September 2025. Father, cook. Shot at a traffic checkpoint.
Despite the blackout attempts by Trump we know of sixteen shooting incidents, four dead, seven wounded.
One of Trump’s agents bragged in texts after shooting a Chicago woman:
I fired 5 shots and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.
If she’d been storming the Capitol to install Trump, she’d be pardoned by now and her family paid millions. If she’d been storming Tehran, she’d be a glorified “freedom fighter.” She was in the wrong city, opposing the wrong injustice, so the agent keeps his “book” open for the next American to fill with Pineapple Face holes.
