Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons and By Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=181647368 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei acknowledged that thousands of people were killed during more than two weeks of nationwide protests, blaming the deaths on U.S. President Donald Trump and accusing him of encouraging unrest by promising protesters U.S. military support. Khamenei described Trump as a criminal and claimed the protests, which began over economic conditions and later shifted to calls for regime change and an end to Islamic governance, were driven by foreign-backed agitators. He did not address reports from witnesses and human rights groups that Iranian security forces fired on unarmed protesters. An unnamed Iranian official told Reuters that authorities had verified at least 5,000 deaths,…
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