Trump urges Iranians to rise

President Donald Trump urged Iranians to "rise up," but Iran's president said Tehran had emerged with pride from the war and would robustly defend its positions at the UN.

The Guardian

Trump still thinks Iranians will ‘rise up’ against the regime. In Tehran I see a different story | Hossein Hamdieh

If anything, the ongoing war is uniting a divided country against the foreign invaders. Washington seems a long way from grasping this point The US president, Donald Trump, asked recently on one of his Truth Social rants : “When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? ” So frenetic and all-over-the-place are Trump’s statements that one does not know which are actual policies and which are simply noise. But if counting on the “Iranian people” to rise up and fight is indeed US policy then, as far as I can tell from within Iran, it is a failed one. And miserably so. At least for now. There is no reliable nationwide polling that can tell us what Iranians think about the war in real time. So this is an observation, not a poll. It comes from conversations I have had with many people. Hossein Hamdieh holds a joint PhD in Geography and Anthropology from Humboldt University of Berlin and King’s College London. He is currently based in Tehran, where he works as a social researcher Continue reading. . .

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Kathimerini

Pezeskian: I will vigorously defend Iran's positions at the UN

We came out with our heads held high (post-war), a source of dignity and pride for all of us, said the president of Iran before departing for New York.