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U.S. President Donald Trump took the antithetic measurement connected Friday (January 16, 2026) of thanking the Iranian authorities for not pursuing done connected executions of what helium said was meant to beryllium hundreds of governmental prisoners.
“Iran cancelled the hanging of implicit 800 people,” Mr. Trump told reporters portion leaving the White House to walk the play astatine his Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, Florida.
He added “and I greatly respect the information that they cancelled.”
The Republican president besides suggested connected his societal media tract that much than 800 radical had been acceptable to beryllium executed successful Iran, but helium said they present won't be.
“Thank you!” Mr. Trump posted.
Those sentiments travel aft Trump spent days suggesting that the US mightiness onslaught Iran militarily if its authorities triggered wide killings during wide protests that swept that state but present person quieted.
The decease toll from those demonstrations continues to rise, activists say. Still, Trump seemed to hint that the prospects for US subject enactment were fading since Iran had held disconnected connected the executions.
The president's rosy appraisal did not look to lucifer the much analyzable concern successful Iran. Still, his pronouncements seemed to beryllium much grounds of him backing distant from his aboriginal comments that suggested a US onslaught connected that state mightiness beryllium imminent.
Trump had antecedently posted of Iran and the protesters there, “Help is connected the way.” But asked if that was inactive the lawsuit connected Friday, helium replied: “Well, we're going to see.”
Questioned specifically if Arab and Israeli officials mightiness person convinced him to backmost down connected seeming suggestions that helium would onslaught Iran, Trump said, “Nobody convinced me. I convinced myself.”
“You had yesterday scheduled implicit 800 hangings. They didn't bent anyone,” helium said. “They cancelled the hangings. That had a large impact.”
Trump did not clarify who helium was speaking to successful Iran to corroborate the authorities of planned executions. That's important since, adjacent arsenic helium was offering Iran benignant words, harsh repression that has near respective 1000 radical dormant appeared to person successfully stifled demonstrations crossed the country.
Protests that began Dec. 28 implicit an ailing system and morphed into protests straight challenging the country's theocracy look to person stopped. There person been nary signs of protests for days successful Tehran, wherever buying and thoroughfare beingness person returned to outward normality, though a week-old net blackout continued.
Authorities person not reported immoderate unrest elsewhere successful the country.
Still, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency connected Friday enactment the decease toll from demonstrations astatine 2,797, and that fig continues to rise.
Meanwhile, Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi urged the US to marque bully connected its possibly present dwindling pledge to intervene, calling Trump “a antheral of his word.”
