US EditionPrayer leader in Iran and the faithful call for executions over protests, a red line for Trump
Senior cleric Ahmad Khatami called for death sentences for detained protesters amid a crackdown with at least 3,090 killed, while warning U.S. President Trump of hard revenge.
- On Friday , Ahmad Khatami, the hard-line Friday prayer leader, demanded the death penalty for detained protesters and warned U.S. President Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, `They should wait for hard revenge from the system`.
- Protests that began Dec. 28 over Iran's ailing economy soon morphed into challenges to the theocracy, and authorities cut internet access on Jan. 8 amid a crackdown reported by Human Rights Activists News Agency to have killed at least 2,677 people.
- The cleric's figures listed damage to 350 mosques, 126 prayer halls, 20 other holy places, 400 hospitals, 106 ambulances, 71 fire department vehicles, and 50 emergency vehicles.
- U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran cancelled the hanging of over 800 people and reiterated executions and killing peaceful protesters are U.S. red lines for possible action.
- Regional tensions rose as the Kurdistan Freedom Party and Kurdish separatist fighters launched attacks on Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, while Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke Friday with Masoud Pezeshkian and Benjamin Netanyahu to de-escalate the crisis.
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Iran sees no new protests as cleric urges executions, threatens Trump
Dubai: As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened US President Donald Trump, evidence of the rage gripping authorities in the Islamic Republic. Trump, though, struck a conciliatory note, thanking Iran’s leaders for not executing hundreds of detained protesters, in a further sign he may be ba…
Trump, however, adopted a conciliatory tone, thanking Iran's leaders for not executing hundreds of detained protesters, another sign that he might be moving away from the idea of a military attack.
No sign of new protests in Iran as a hard-line cleric calls for executions, threatens Trump
Harsh repression that has left several thousand people dead appears to have succeeded in stifling demonstrations that began December 28 over Iran's ailing economy and morphed into protests directly challenging the country's theocracy
Trump thanks Iran for cancelling alleged executions amid protest crackdown
Donald Trump thanked Iran for cancelling alleged plans to execute 800 protesters on January 16, backing away from military threats after claiming Tehran halted executions amid deadly crackdown killing thousands.
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