Leeds Beckett academic: Trump's actions towards Iran part of a new global order
Iran has called for negotiation after the US threatened military action
Donald Trump is considering military action against the Iranian government amidst some of the largest protests in Iranian history.
This comes days after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Iran's leaders to "exercise restraint".
The Iranian government is facing some of the largest protests the country has ever seen, and says it is "prepared" for war if the US take military action.
Hundreds have been killed during the course of these protests.
Luis Harrison, politics and international relations lecturer at Leeds Beckett, says these protests would have been "unimaginable" a couple of years ago.
Harrison said: "You've got people openly demanding a change of regime, which is really, in the context of previous Iranian history, unprecedented."
The academic identified these events as part of a pattern for Trump - threatening bold military moves on the world stage.
Earlier this month, the US government conducted strikes on Venezuela and deposed the country's president, Nicolás Maduro.
Harrison says threatening military action is a big part of Trump's international political strategy: "nobody knows what he's going to do next."
The Leeds Beckett lecturer also mentioned that unilateral moves by the US, such as this and the military action they have mooted over Greenland, are establishing a new global order.
"The world is becoming a more volatile place. And it's becoming a place where the framework, the organisations we have like the UN, that facilitated countries to stop and talk to each other, are being eroded."