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Posted on 05/05/2026 6:09:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Iranians need access to weapons to challenge their rulers, President Donald Trump said on Monday, arguing that protesters would fight effectively if armed but are currently outmatched by government forces.
“They have to have guns. And I think they’re getting some guns. As soon as they have guns, they’ll fight like, as good as anybody there is,” Trump said in an interview with The Hugh Hewitt Show.
Trump also suggested that US military pressure had already significantly weakened Iran and that further action could be completed within a short timeframe.
Trump:
The Iranian people have to have guns and I think they’re getting some guns.
As soon as they have guns, they’ll fight like as good as anybody there is. pic.twitter.com/84BBqeZCPy
— Clash Report (@clashreport) May 5, 2026 “We’ve taken out much of what we’d have to do, probably another two weeks, two weeks, maybe three weeks,” he said.
Trump said large numbers of Iranians would struggle to confront armed forces without access to weapons.
“You can’t have an unarmed population against people with AK-47s,” he said, adding that even hundreds of thousands of protesters would struggle against a smaller armed force.
He said previous protests had been met with heavy force, citing the deaths of tens of thousands of demonstrators, and suggested this had made him cautious about encouraging renewed unrest.
“I’m very torn on it, because they lost 42,000 people in the first two weeks. I don’t really want to see that,” Trump said.
Past weapons transfers
Trump said during a phone interview with Fox Sunday in early April that his administration had previously attempted to send firearms to Iranian protesters but that the effort did not reach its intended recipients.
“We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them. We sent them through the Kurds. And I think the Kurds took the guns,” he said.
He repeated similar complaints, saying he was “very upset with a certain group of people” and warning they would “pay a big price.”
Several Kurdish groups have denied receiving such shipments.
Calls in Washington to arm Iranians
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has also urged the administration to pursue a policy of directly arming Iranian civilians.
“If I were President Trump and I were Israel, I would load the Iranian people up with weapons so they can go to the streets armed and turn the tide of battle inside Iran,” Graham said in an interview with Fox News on Monday.
“We don’t need American boots on the ground. We’ve got millions of boots on the ground in Iran. They just don’t have any weapons,” he added.
Graham described the idea as “a Second Amendment solution,” suggesting that arming civilians could help bring down the government without direct foreign military involvement.
He also called for alternative channels to deliver weapons, urging the administration not to rely on Kurdish intermediaries.
Military pressure and internal divisions
Trump framed his comments within a broader assessment that Iran’s military and economic capacity had been significantly weakened.
“They have no navy. They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft,” he told The Hugh Hewitt Show.
Trump added that financial pressure may have affected the government’s ability to pay its forces.
“We don’t think they’re paying their soldiers and their Guard anymore,” he said.
He also suggested divisions within Iran’s security structure, drawing a distinction between the regular army and other forces.
“We purposefully have not gone after them too much, because we think that they’re much more moderate,” Trump said.
At the same time, he said the United States was not seeking to dismantle the country’s military institutions entirely.
“We’re not looking to decimate the army,” he said, referring to past regional experiences.
“You know, when they did Iraq... and the worst thing was they got rid of the all the leaders, so nobody knew who the leader was. And then all of a sudden, you had ISIS. We don’t want to do that.”
Nuclear focus remains central
Despite discussing internal unrest, Trump said that preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons remains the central objective of US policy.
“The one thing I will say is they will never have a nuclear weapon,” he said.
Trump said any potential agreement would require the return of highly enriched uranium and limits on missile development, though he stressed that nuclear restrictions remain the priority.
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Start dropping a new version of the FP-45 Liberators across iran.
No guns, no rebellion. Exactly.
Exhibit A in support of the 2nd Amendment
I’ve been posting on this for two months.
It’s high time.
If this is a new “revelation”. Why wasn’t this done for before this whole thing began?
Military strategists who claim that all you need is air power (See Giulio Douhet!) have been wrong since the 1920s! Surely that old “bill of goods” wasn’t sold to the administration?
My thought exactly!
Oh, the democrats won’t like this one bit.
How can they subjugate an armed populace?
Well, the Reagan doctrine included providing guns (including stingers!) to the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. It was effective.
I am okay with promoting uprisings against occupying Communist countries, which are inherently expansionist.
In the case of Iran, I care a bit more about who is getting the weapons. Lots of different sets of bad guys.
If the end result is that WE become the occupiers, as we were in Afghanistan, that is not great.
It’s the job of the Green Beret to carry out insurgencies. The common Persian needs fighting organization and small arms. Just chucking small arms out of airplanes won’t do it.
I expect we have thousands of old, replaced M16/AR and other platforms in storage somewhere with plenty of surplus ammo. Drop them in crates from C-130’s. Take the arms awaay from some agencies that do not need a SWAT team like EPA and Dept of Ed...
We also have stockpiles of AK-47’s................
Our policies created Osama Bin Laden and therefore Al-Queda...............
I believe that if the Iranian people really want to be free then they need to fight for it themselves or they won’t appreciate it. I’m not saying this is the only thing to do, but I do believe it is a way to provide them immediate ability to take action without our boots on the ground.
What I've been saying since New Years Day.
Women in musloid nations (including UK and EU muslim shitholes) should be armed and trained to take out the musloids who threaten and attack them.
Yeah, kill commies/fascists with their own go to weapon.
Me too.
What has he been waiting for?
Gee, ya think?
AsI recall, the intent of getting the Liberator one shot pistols to civilians resisting invaders was that they then used the one shit to kill and invader, take the invader’s rifles and ammo and be more effective resisting.
yep...they were single shot stamped pistols - here’s what I found:
Standard issue included:
The pistol
10 rounds of .45 ACP ammunition
A wooden dowel for pushing out the spent casing
A pictorial instruction sheet
This “kit” was the standard packaging from the U.S. Army’s Guide Lamp Division (a GM subsidiary), which produced the pistols.
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