The Iranian rial plummeted to an all-time low on Wednesday after Donald Trump secured re-election to the White House, showing concerns about the terror-supporting regime and loss of confidence among its supporters.
In response to Trump's return, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which was designated a terrorist organization by the first Trump administration, posted a video on social media threatening to kill Trump.
The Revolutionary Guards, a designated terrorist organization and theocratically controlled wing of Iran's military, vows to 'finish the job' and kill Trump to avenge Revolutionary Guards General Qasem Soleimani By doing so, he revealed his feelings regarding the 2024 US presidential election.
playing cards ordered An airstrike in January 2020 wiped out Soleimani while the Iranian general was coordinating terrorist attacks against Americans in Iraq. Iranian regime declared He claimed that Soleimani was a “martyr” and that a significant number of the population celebrated him as a national hero. resisted That command.
An IRGC video published Wednesday through one of its channels on the messaging platform Telegram included footage of President Trump covered in blood after a failed assassination attempt in July in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Revolutionary Guards promised to finish what the Pennsylvania shootings started.
The video soundtrack includes speech Soleimani said in July 2018, “Oh, Mr. Trump, you're a gambler!” He says the Quds Army is your enemy. There's not a night when we sleep and don't think about you! ”
The Quds Force is a division of the Revolutionary Guards commanded by Soleimani. Its mission is to stir up unrest, sponsor terrorism, and destabilize governments that Iranians view as enemies throughout the Middle East.
Wednesday's video was not the first time various factions of the Iranian regime have threatened to take revenge on Soleimani by killing President Trump. In late 2020, Iran “indicted” President Trump and members of his administration for Soleimani's murder. In January 2022, former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi blackmailed This is to take revenge on Trump if the international community does not bring him to justice. In an Iranian court in December 2023 ordered The United States has asked for $50 billion in damages to be paid for Soleimani's death.
U.S. intelligence agencies said last month that the threat from Iran is serious, and President Joe Biden has said publicly. warned Iran must not take action against them. President Trump himself said that the Iranian plan “didn't work” but “we will try again.”
Iran's currency, the rial, traded at 703,000 rials to the dollar on Wednesday, below a record low. There was a small and rather dubious rally later in the day, as it recovered to $696,150. This was probably orchestrated by the Central Bank of Iran injecting hard currency into the market.
At its peak, the rial traded at 32,000 rials to the dollar, following Iran's highly favorable nuclear deal with former President Barack Obama.
Wednesday Associated Press spoke To the Iranian people who were worried that a returned President Trump would once again hit Iran with sanctions, or, more precisely, end unlimited sanctions. Waiver This is in response to President Joe Biden's habitual sanctions.
Although the government claimed that Rather than favoring either Mr. Trump or defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, some of the subjects fear the economic collapse that new sanctions may cause, and the need to overthrow an evil theocracy. Some were hopeful that it might be enough.
“He will tighten sanctions one hundred percent,” an Iranian student told The Associated Press. “The unfavorable situation for us will only get worse. Our economic and social situation will definitely worsen. It feels like the country is about to collapse.”
The Associated Press spoke to two taxi drivers on opposite ends of Iran's political spectrum. One of them likened President Trump to a “devil” and said he had “the eyes of Satan,” while the other said he wanted President Trump to help Iran because “after all, he's a human being.” He said he supports concluding an agreement with the United States.
Reimposing sanctions could be politically difficult for President Massoud Pezeshkian, an ostensibly “moderate” reformer. won The country won a surprise victory in an emergency election in July after hard-line Islamist President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash.
Mr. Pezeshikian's platform included promises to repair relations with the West and lift sanctions, but he has grown even further since his election. belligerent Israel has won victory after victory against Iranian terrorist proxies in Gaza and Lebanon.
“The Islamic Republic has to fear the fact that the presidential candidate they tried to kill won the election,” said Benam Ben Taleblou, an analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). said Thursday on FOX News Digital.
“The regime knows that it cannot afford any more exogenous economic shocks. Even putting maximum pressure back on the Islamic Republic will cause big, big economic problems,” he said. I predicted it.
Taleblu warned that Iran could ramp up uranium processing and rush to build a functional nuclear bomb before Trump takes office.
“Tehran knows it will once again be under maximum pressure. In this lame duck period, it must take the threat of nuclear saber rattling seriously, especially when its conventional deterrents are badly outmatched. “Yes,” he said, referring to Israel's highly successful retaliatory airstrikes against Iran in late October.
