U.S. President Donald Trump cautions that America will unleash harsh measures if Iran hangs anti-regime demonstrators, while monitors tally over 2,400 fatalities from a ferocious clampdown on mass unrest.
Authorities in Tehran have doomed 26-year-old Erfan Soltani to execution after a hasty tribunal, scheduled for January 14, per kin to BBC Persian and Hengaw rights group. Hengaw deemed the pace shocking, saying they had “never witnessed a case move so quickly.” A relative called it “in an extremely rapid process, within just two days.”
To CBS News, Trump warned: “If they hang them, you’re going to see some things… We will take very strong action if they do such a thing.” He aims to verify deaths at a White House huddle, noting “The killing looks like it’s significant, but we don’t know yet for certain,” before acting. Truth Social carried his vow that officials face a “big price,” plus “I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!!”
HRANA logs 2,403 protester losses with 12 children amid 18,434 grabs and 120-hour net blackout. An official blamed 2,000 corpses on “terrorists” to Reuters. Hengaw’s Awyar Shekhi accused rulers of “using every tactic they know to suppress people and spread fear.”
Rial woes sparked province-wide fury, now the top post-1979 trial for clerics, crushed last Thursday by bullets and comms cuts.
UN’s Volker Türk slams violence and “terrorist” slurs plus quick death courts, urging net revival. Judiciary boss Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei pledges tough reckoning via “enmity against God” charges. Meanwhile, Iran scoffs at the U.S. “pretext for military intervention.”