Trump targets Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei
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Protests in Iran appear to have slowed as Khamenei claims Trump personally 'encouraged' unrest
The ayatollah claimed in a defiant address that "the Iranian nation has defeated America" as Trump appeared to partially back away from threats to intervene.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accused Donald Trump of being responsible for "casualties, damage and slander" in his country during recent protests.
The regime may have been able to crush the latest wave of protests using its tried-and-tested playbook of repression. But the fundamental grievances animating protesters haven’t gone away.
The bloody reprisals against protesters are the culmination of decades in which the regime’s "propensity and ability to use violence" has only increased, analysts say.
Emerging on Tuesday from a late-night Situation Room meeting to discuss options for striking Iran, some of President Donald Trump’s top national security officials were relatively sure a decision on military action was close at hand.
President Trump thanks Iran for stopping mass executions and signals a step back from earlier suggestions of possible U.S. military action as protests continue.
Iran's deadly crackdown appears to have broadly quelled protests for now, residents said on Friday, as state media reported more arrests in the shadow of repeated U.S. threats to intervene if the killing continues.
Protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered, with authorities shutting the country off from the world and escalating a bloody crackdown.
Iran was set to participate in joint naval exercises in South Africa's waters with several other BRICS countries.
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