President Donald Trump says the US is "locked and loaded" and will come to the rescue of Iranian protesters if any of them are killed by the regime.
A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded by saying Trump should "be careful" if he intervened.
We speak to our Middle East analyst, Sebastian Usher.
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