At a press availability in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Donald Trump took questions on the Iran War.

PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: You posted today on Truth Social, when are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? If that’s what you want, will you send the CIA in to arm Iranians? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I wouldn’t want to say that to you, Peter. I’d love to tell you that, but it wouldn’t be appropriate to say. But I mean, I understand their plight. They’re being shot right now. You know, these gentlemen sit here in the lap of luxury, and they see things, but over there, it’s not so luxurious. As of three months ago, they had 52,000 protesters were killed. Can you imagine this, fellas? And now I hear the number’s probably 20,000, 25,000 more. They have close to 65,000 protesters killed. So when I ask that question, I ask it sort of knowing the answer. The only answer is that they’re being shot. The regime is getting weaker and weaker by the day, and at some point, they’re not going to be able to shoot so easily because I think the people aren’t going to take it. But I did pose that question because, you know, it would be time, but unlike most… Most people can’t kill their people like that. Most people try and reason, they talk, and then there might be an overthrow. In Iran, they kill the people. When they get out to protest, they kill them. They shoot them right between the eyes. They have two forms, machine guns and snipers. And they use them sometimes as machine guns and sometimes as snipers. They like the snipers better because all they do is have a crowd of 200,000 people and a person goes down here right between the eyes. And they’ll have three snipers doing it, and it’s a horrible thing to watch. So that’s why it’s not happening. And who can blame them? Who can blame them? But the regime is getting weaker by the day.

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