US President Donald Trump warned Tuesday of unspecified \u201cvery strong action\u201d if Iranian authorities go ahead with threatened hangings of some protesters, with Tehran calling American warnings a \u201cpretext for military intervention\u201d.<\/p>\n
International outrage has built over the crackdown that a rights group claimed, without evidence, has likely killed thousands during protests posing one of the biggest challenges yet to Iran\u2019s clerical leadership.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s UN mission posted a statement on X, vowing that Washington\u2019s \u201cplaybook\u201d would \u201cfail again\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cUS fantasies and policy toward Iran are rooted in regime change, with sanctions, threats, engineered unrest, and chaos serving as the modus operandi to manufacture a pretext for military intervention,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n
Iranian authorities have insisted they had regained control of the country after successive nights of mass protests nationwide since Thursday.<\/p>\n
Rights groups accuse the government of fatally shooting protesters and masking the scale of the crackdown with an internet blackout that has now surpassed the five-day mark.<\/p>\n
Trump – who earlier told the protesters in Iran that \u201chelp is on its way\u201d – told CBS News that the United States would act if Iran began hanging protesters.<\/p>\n
Tehran prosecutors said Iranian authorities would press capital charges of \u201cmoharebeh\u201d, or \u201cwaging war against God\u201d, against some suspects arrested over recent demonstrations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will take very strong action if they do such a thing,\u201d said the American leader, who has repeatedly threatened Iran with military intervention.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they start killing thousands of people – and now you\u2019re telling me about hanging. We\u2019ll see how that\u2019s going to work out for them,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
New videos on social media, with locations verified by AFP, showed bodies lined up in the Kahrizak morgue just south of the Iranian capital, with the corpses wrapped in black bags and distraught relatives searching for loved ones.<\/p>\n
International phone links were restored on Tuesday, but only for outgoing calls, according to an AFP journalist, and the quality remained spotty, with frequent interruptions.<\/p>\n
However, the internet remains suspended in the country for more than 132 hours now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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