President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran’s halting of 800 scheduled executions had a “big impact” on his decision not to authorize military operations against the regime in Tehran yet.
“[Iran] had, yesterday, scheduled over 800 hangings. They didn’t hang anyone,” the president told reporters while he left the White House to spend the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago home. “They canceled the hangings. That had a big impact.”
In a social media post on Friday, Trump said he “greatly respect[s] the fact that all scheduled hangings … have been canceled,” and thanked the regime for doing so.
The Iranian regime and its security forces have cracked down on mass protests that have taken place recently. More than 2,600 people have been killed and more than 19,000 other people detained,
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