Overview
- Trump thanked Iran for cancelling what he said were more than 800 planned executions and said he held off on military action, while Iranian authorities denied any such execution plans.
- Rights groups and residents reported a lull in street protests under a heavy security presence as limited communications resumed, though verification remains difficult.
- The U.S. kept military options open, moved assets toward the region including the USS Abraham Lincoln, imposed new sanctions on officials tied to the crackdown, and pressed the UN Security Council for emergency talks.
- Casualty estimates vary widely, with rights monitors reporting at least roughly 2,600 to more than 3,400 people killed and thousands detained, figures that cannot be independently confirmed due to restrictions.
- Iran’s hardline cleric Ahmad Khatami publicly called for the death penalty for detained demonstrators, while exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi urged U.S. intervention and argued the killing has not stopped.