“US President Donald Trump announced the introduction of new trade restrictions against any country that continues to cooperate with the Iranian regime.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Donald Trump. Photo: Getty Images Source: Trump on his social network Truth Social
Direct speech: “From now on, any country that does business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a 25% tariff on any transactions with the United States of America. This order is final and irrevocable.”
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Details: The American president did not elaborate on possible exceptions or a transition period to adapt to the new rules.
Previously the head of the White House expressed support for the Iranian demonstrators and threatened military strikes if Iranian authorities continued to kill civilians.
What preceded:
- Mass protests have been ongoing in Iran since the end of December 2025, which began due to the economic crisis and turned into an anti-government uprising. According to human rights defenders, the number of dead has already exceeded 500 peoplemore than 10 thousand people were arrested.
- Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei statedthat the Islamist regime “will not back down” and intensified brutal repression against the civilian population.
- On January 10, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called on the international community increase pressure on the Iranian regime for his violence against his own people and support for Russia’s war against Ukraine.
- The heir to the Iranian throne, Reza Pahlavi, is in exile urged population to the “new stage of the national uprising”, with the aim of overthrowing the regime of the Islamic Republic.
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime is trying to quell the uprising by blocking the Internet and telephone communications, but the protests are spreading. US President Donald Trump sided with the demonstrators and threatened military strikes if Iran continued to kill civilians.