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Iran may have averted US strikes for now by pledging not to execute protesters after pressure from President Donald Trump.
Trump told reporters Wednesday he had been informed the “killing in Iran is stopping,” adding he would be “very upset” if the crackdown continued. That was a marked shift from earlier in the week, when he urged Iranians to keep demonstrating and vowed that “help is on the way.”
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