Senior Iranian Official Calls for Terror Attacks Across America

Senior Iranian Official Calls for Terror Attacks Across America

Hugh Fitzgerald

After having promised the protesters in Iran that they should keep going, assuring them that “help is on the way” and repeatedly threatening the Iranian government with a possible violent intervention by the American military, Donald Trump suddenly turned back, and announced that he had it on good authority that the Iranian regime had stopped its violence, so there was no longer any need for the Americans to intervene. He even praised the government of Iran, thanking it for not executing 800 protesters who, Trump claimed, were scheduled to be hung. In return, Ayatollah Khamenei has again denounced the Great Satan, and another senior Iranian official has just given his own response to Trump’s pusillanimity. More about that response, in which he called for kidnaping Trump, as well as carrying out terrorist acts inside the US, including arson, car rammings, and murder, can be found here: “Iranian Official Says Regime Should Capture Trump, Every US City Deserves Rampant Arson, Murder,” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, January 16, 2026

"An Iranian official has called on the Islamic Republic to capture US President Donald Trump and said it is permissible to carry out terrorist attacks in US cities.

Hassan Rahimpour-Azghadi, an official with the Iranian Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, threatened Trump and the American people during an appearance last week on the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) TV, a state-run news channel.

The comments from Jan. 9 were first reported and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

“Inshallah, we should do to Trump something similar to what they did to Maduro,” Rahimpour-Azghadi said, referring to the recent American operation to arrest ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for his alleged role in trafficking drugs.

“Such an operation should be carried out against Trump …We are dealing with a savage individual and a savage regime, which extends its claws everywhere in the world,” the Iranian official continued….

Unsheathed Iranian claws, on the other hand, have in recent years been extended to Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, where Iran had been attempting to create a “Shi’a crescent” to surround and threaten the state of Israel.\\

“Inshallah, we should do to Trump something similar to what they did to Maduro,” Rahimpour-Azghadi said, referring to the recent American operation to arrest ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for his alleged role in trafficking drugs.

“Such an operation should be carried out against Trump …We are dealing with a savage individual and a savage regime, which extends its claws everywhere in the world,” the Iranian official continued.

In addition to calling for the capture of Trump, Rahimpour-Azghadi further made the point that what he views as illegal US actions now make it permissible to conduct terrorist actions “in every state and every city.”

Specifically, the Iranian official was referring to “arson attacks, burning people, gunning down people in the streets, running over a mother and her daughter with a car.” The US, he argued, has engaged in such actions in Iran, and therefore, “by law, it is now permissible to carry out any type of attack, whether on US soil, against US interests across the world.”…

Well, that’s quite a threat: arson, burning people alive, shooting people in the street, and even — Rahimpour-Azghadi is quite the  detail man — “running over a mother and her daughter with a car.” It’s some list.

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