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Washington.- The president of the U.S., Donald Trump, assured this Tuesday that he will send economic aid to the opponents in Iran and again threatened a possible military attack against the Government of Tehran for repression of the protests.
"There's a lot of help on the way in different forms, including economic," responded the president during an interview with CBS News, in the course of a visit to a Ford automobile manufacturer plant.
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When asked about the violence of the Iranian state against the protesters, the Republican responded that they will take "strong measures" if it is confirmed that they will hang people who have participated in the protests. When explaining what would be "the long-term goal" of a military attack on the Ayatollah's government, Trump replied that his goal is to "win". Subsequently, when defining what a "victory" in Iran would entail, the Republican limited himself to citing as an example the US operations to kill Qasem Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), or Abu Bakar, former leader of the Islamic State, or the one that extracted then-President Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela on January 3rd. The protests that began on the 28th reached their peak last Thursday with an explosion of demonstrations in practically the entire country, which led to acts of vandalism against public bodies, banks that were ransacked, and the burning of 53 mosques throughout the country, according to official sources. Human Rights Activists (HRA) said today that they had confirmed the deaths of a total of 1,850 people, including nine minors, in the 17 days of anti-government protests in Iran and also more than 16,700 detentions, according to what was published on its news agency HRANA. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated today at a press conference that "there is no verified figure" by the organization on the number of people who have died in the protests, but that "it is evident that an unacceptable number of civilians have died."
