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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Unpredictable Trump weighs up Iranian pleas for help against calls for restraint

Iranian protesters in Tehran at night-time
Protesters in Tehran on Saturday. Photograph: Social Media/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Donald Trump is being warned by Iranians that it will be too late unless he acts quickly to fulfil his promise to help protesters under fire from security services in Iran but the president is receiving conflicting advice about the potential effectiveness of a US intervention.

A major intervention by Washington, some are warning, will only fuel the fire of an Iranian government narrative that the protests are being manipulated as part of an anti-Islamic plot being led by the US and Israel.

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