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Trump encourages Iranian protesters; rights group says 2,000 killed

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that “help is on its way” to anti-regime protesters in Iran and warned that the country’s government — whose security forces, one rights group estimates, have killed at least 2,000 people during a brutal crackdown on the demonstrations — will pay a “big price.”



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