Iran warns US against attack as protest death toll reportedly soars
Tehran issues warning after Donald Trump says US stands ready to help amid crackdown on demonstrations ‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down Iran has warned the US not to attack over protests that have rocked the country, as Donald Trump weighed the options for a response from Washington, with the reported death toll from the demonstrations soaring to the hundreds. At least 538 people have been killed in the violence surrounding demonstrations, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, including 490 protesters. The group reported that more than 10,600 people were arrested by Iranian authorities. Continue reading...
Washington and Tehran step up war of words over Donald Trump’s threat to intervene in response to unrest
Iranian authorities have arrested key members of the protest movement that has rocked the country over the last two weeks, the national police chief said, as Washington and Tehran threaten each other over the prospect of US intervention in the Islamic republic.
“Last night, significant arrests were made of the main elements in the riots, who, God willing, will be punished after going through legal procedures,” the police chief, Ahmad-Reza Radan, told state TV on Sunday, without specifying the number of those arrested.
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