Trump: Repressive regimes cannot last forever

US President Donald Trump repeated today a warning to the Iranian authorities regarding the protests in that country, saying that "repressive regimes cannot last forever". "The whole world understands that the good Iranian people want change, and besides the enormous military power of the US, the Iranian authorities fear the Iranian people the most," Trump said on Twitter. As he stated, "the day will soon come when the Iranian people will face a choice." "The world is watching," Trump concluded. Yesterday, the US president also warned Iran via Twitter that it "must respect the rights of its people, especially the right to expression". The USA yesterday "strongly" condemned the arrests of protesters in Iran. Iran rejected the "opportunistic" statements. "The Iranian people do not attach any importance or value to those opportunistic statements by US officials and Trump," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said. Due to the economic problems of Iran, isolated for years and under international sanctions due to its nuclear program, protests began in several cities on Thursday and Friday. Today, between 50 and 70 students protested in front of Tehran University and shouted slogans against the government, and several thousand people demonstrated in other cities of Iran.