Amidst Fear and Despair, Iranians Wait for the Americans

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, people are now full of fear, yet still hoping for the blow, the attacks, the war on their tormentors that President Donald Trump promised would happen if the killing of protesters didn’t stop. It didn’t; 36,500 protesters have been murdered so far, and 330,00 have been wounded. But Trump has yet to deliver on his promise. Iranians are despairing. They want an end to the regime that has provided only misery for the past 47 years, and wonder if the Americans will finally come through, kill their tormentors, and free them from this calvary. More on their mood can be found here: “Despair, ‘endless anger’ growing among Iranians as military action looms,” by Goldie Katz, Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2026:

Iranian citizens described living in great fear and constant anxiety as the threat of military action against the Iranian regime looms overhead in an interview with N12 News published on Friday. Dalara, from Karaj, a city west of Tehran, compared the anxiety surrounding the current threat of conflict to that of the 12-day war in June when “people understood that the attacks were targeted, specific, and that the risk of hitting civilian areas was low.””Today I feel that people no longer have anything to lose,” Dalara continued. “They are waiting at any moment for external help to come in the form of war. Some say: ‘I wish it would start already,’ because they know that the more the war is postponed, the number of deaths will only increase.”Dalara told N12 that the fear began after the first few days of anti-regime protests broke out, “when the phones didn’t work, the internet was down, and people didn’t know what was happening to others.””At night, you can hardly leave the house,” she added, stating that Iranian regime forces can stop civilians, search their phones, enter their houses, and arrest them. “People have no sense of security. The anxiety starts from the moment you leave the house and stays until you return. We feel that the street is no longer safe.”…

Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened the Islamic Republic of Iran over its killing of protesters, but the killing has gone on, albeit at a slower pace than on January 8 and 9, when the massacre in city streets across Iran was at its height. After the first two weeks of protests and the mass killing of protestors. Trump issued his call for the protests to continue and assured those protesters that “HELP IS ON THE WAY!”But the killings continued, albeit at a slower pace, and instead of acting as he had threatened to do, Trump decided to declare that he had been informed that the killing had stopped and so there was no longer any need for the U.S. to take action. He declared he was satisfied that he had stopped the killing of protesters, which, of course, he had not done. Trump waxes and wanes, he says one thing and then its opposite, this mercurial and unpredictable man, and he has done so especially in his statements about Iran. He utters menacing threats, pretends the threats have worked, and therefore he no longer feels any need to make his threats a reality. The killings of protesters, though the number of victims has decreased, are continuing.Now he has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier, and several other ships in the carrier group as well, from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East, where another carrier group headed by the USS Ford, is already stationed. Their mere presence is supposed to overawe the Iranian leaders and cause the regime to end its nuclear program, and hand over to the Americans the 400 kg. of uranium Tehran has enriched to a just-below-weapons-grade purity of 60%.

Trump now has so many ways to rattle the cages, to flutter the dovecotes, to scare the supreme leader into burrowing deeper in his underground hideout, while the protesters can return in force to Iranian cities, confident of American support should more bombing be deemed necessary to stop the killings in the streets, in order to pull down the already tottering pillars of the Islamic Republic without — please note — the need for a single American soldier to be on the ground in Iran.

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