'Inappropriate to say': Trump may still be considering CIA-led uprising in Iran

'Inappropriate to say': Trump may still be considering CIA-led uprising in Iran Submitted by Yasmine El-Sabawi on Wed, 09/02/2026 - 20:32 A day earlier, the US president asked when the Iranian people would 'rise up and fight' An injured victim lies in a hospital bed, following a US attack on a wedding, near Sirik, a coastal area on the Strait of Hormuz, in Hormozgan province, Iran, on 2 September 2026 (Razieh Poudat/ISNA/via West Asia News Agency via Reuters) Off US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it "wouldn't be appropriate to say" if he would greenlight the CIA arming Iranians to encourage a violent uprising, a day after he asked on his TruthSocial account, "When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? " Trump was taking unscheduled questions in the Oval Office, after the US unleashed a barrage of strikes on Iran's southern coast on Tuesday, killing 18 people, including two children at a wedding. "Will you send the CIA in to arm Iranians?