US President Donald Trump shares a tweet from US Senator Lindsey Graham in which he warns that the “brutality” being carried out against protesters in Iran “will not go unchallenged.”
Trump shares Graham’s post on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Graham, a South Carolina Republican, had written that the Trump administration “was not the Obama administration when it comes to standing up to the Iranian ayatollah and his religious Nazi henchmen, and standing behind the people of Iran protesting for a better life.”
“To the regime leadership: your brutality against the great people of Iran will not go unchallenged,” added Graham.
Trump has warned several times that Washington will strike Iran if the Islamic Republic kills protesters, as mass demonstrations have swept the country over the past two weeks.
Rights groups in Iran say that 51 protesters have been killed since people first took to the streets on December 28. However, an anonymous Tehran doctor cited by TIME magazine said Saturday that 217 protester deaths, “most by live ammunition,” were registered in six hospitals in the city as of Thursday night.
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