Trump has turned Iran’s protests into standing war pretext - except the facts on the ground don't match the words in his mouth. Right, so Donald Trump has just treated protests inside Iran as advance grounds for a US war, before any verified massacre, investigation, or threshold exists. The people hit by that aren’t going to be limited to Iran though; they include anyone protesting anywhere who now sits under the same logic. This isn’t just about prices rising, shopkeepers closing stalls, or students shouting slogans in Tehran. It’s about a US president openly folding domestic dissent in a rival state into a menu of military options, with Israel actively keeping those options alive. We’ve seen unrest inflated and moralised before, but this time it’s happening out loud, early, and without restraint. Protests become leverage. Human rights language  ...