Lise Doucette

President Trump, as the commander-in-chief, has a very big toolbox with very sharp tools.

Military, cyber, sanction, sending Starlink terminals.

He could do a lot and do a lot of damage, but there are consequences with each choice.

Regimes are not brought down in that way.

We don't really know what President Trump is going to do tonight or tomorrow.

We don't know what his endgame in Iran is.

Is he thinking of democracy?

Is he thinking of regime change?

Is he thinking of just sending a strong message?

Is he going to help the protesters?

Who's he going to back in the opposition?

None of us know.

And quite frankly, President Trump may not know.

Well, his last long post on Truth Social, which in capital letters, help is on the way to the protesters.

By then, the protesters had left the streets.

By then, the Iranian security forces' use of lethal force had sent people away.

It was just simply too dangerous.

Iranian journalists said to me, you'd have to have a death wish to go out into the streets.

There may still be pockets.

The near total internet blackout means that Iran is literally in the dark.