🚨 The Islamic Republic’s police chief just threatened Iranians with another massacre on state TV: “Our finger is on the trigger.” Ahmadreza Radan called protesters “homeland-sellers” and “enemies,” warning they would be dealt with “firmly.” He then put the police alongside the IRGC, Army and Basij, declaring that all have their fingers on the trigger. This is a direct threat to repeat the January bloodshed as Iranians suffer under a worsening economic crisis, political repression and suffocating social restrictions. The Islamic Republic has criminalized dissent and protest, threatening Iranians who take to the streets with bullets, imprisonment and death. This is not an isolated threat. It is consistent with what senior Islamic Republic officials have repeatedly said since the January bloodshed. IRGC commander Mohammad Pakpour said the IRGC had its “finger on the trigger.” Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei demanded no leniency toward “rioters,” while Mohsen Rezaei later declared that the armed forces’ “hands are still on the trigger.” Radan himself previously warned that anyone taking to the streets “at the enemy’s request” would be treated as the enemy. Radan was already national police commander when security forces used live ammunition against protesters in January. Now the same commander is publicly announcing that the doctrine remains: label protesters traitors and enemies, then threaten them with battlefield force. January showed what “finger on the trigger” can mean. Now multiple senior officials are warning Iranians that the same apparatus remains ready to do it again.