“We have been notified pretty strongly — but we’ll find out what that all means… We’ve been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, and it’s stopped,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office without elaborating on who passed along that message to Tehran.
Iran’s foreign minister had been in touch with Trump’s top aide Steve Witkoff over the weekend. There’s no plan for executions… I’ve been told that on good authority,” Trump says. “I’m sure if happens, we’ll all be very upset.” Rights groups say the crackdown death toll in Iran over the past two-plus weeks of protests is well above the regime’s official count of 2,000. (Source)
