Over the last few months, we have heard some fairly horrific stories regarding how Iran is dealing with protesters.

It started with the military, then the militia was called in, and bodies started to get stacked up.

Now, reports have leaked that this was all the master plan of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Trump issues his threat

When reports started to fly that mass violence was taking place against protesters, President Donald Trump appeared to be ready to insert the United States into the fray.

Trump promised that if Iran started to systematically wipe out protesters, the United States “will come to their rescue.”

Trump added, "We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”

Democrats, of course, used this to attack the administration because of the conflicts between immigration officials and protesters here in the United States.

Send in the militia

It then appeared as though Iran was using local military to do the dirty work, as reports surfaced at one point that gunfire erupted overnight as militiamen interjected themselves into these protests.

Local outlets then explained that Iran had been recruiting militia for days in an effort to get these protests under control.

IranIntl.com reported, “So far, around 800 Iraqi Shiite militiamen have been deployed, almost all of them members of Kataib Hezbollah, Harakat al-Nujaba, Sayyid al-Shuhada and the Badr Organization.”

Then the reports started to hit of bodies being stacked up, and the question was whether Trump would back up his threat or not.

It was all Khamenei

Documents were leaked this week showing that this was all the master plan of Iran’s Supreme Leader, according to National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Deputy Director (Washington Office) Alireza Jafarzadeh.

He stated, "This Directive by the National Security Council was obtained by the network in Iran of the MEK, which has access to sources within the regime.”

He continued, "These documents show the regime's efforts to prevent the resurgence of the uprising and, if it occurred, to suppress it. He then stated that there were "clear operational plans allocated to the IRGC to use lethal force to kill as many people as needed to stay in power."

Based on these reports, it seems pretty clear that the orders came right from the Supreme Leader, but what does Trump do now? Nobody wants to see the United States get into another forever war, but how does Trump save face if he does not follow through on his threat? That is now the pink elephant in the room.