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Prayer leader in Iran and the faithful call for executions over protests, a red line for Trump
Senior clerics blame foreign influence and call for executions as protests cause damage to over 350 mosques and 400 hospitals, with at least 2,677 deaths reported by HRANA.
- Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a prayer leader in Iran appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called for the execution of protesters over the recent anti-government demonstrations.
- Khatami accused the protesters of being "butlers of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump's soldiers" and claimed their plans "imagined disintegrating the country."
- The protests, which began on December 28 over Iran's ailing economy and grew into challenges against the country's theocracy, have killed at least 2,677 people according to a US-based human rights group.
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Prayer leader in Iran and the faithful call for executions over protests, a red line for Trump
A cleric leading prayers in Iran's capital has demanded the death penalty for detained protesters, showing the hard-line rage gripping the Islamic Republic.
·United States
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No sign of new protests in Iran as a hard-line cleric calls for executions and threatens Trump
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a harsh crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump — evidence of the rage gripping authorities in the Islamic Republic. Read more...
·Vancouver, United States
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