Trump cancels talks with Iran delegation as death toll from protests hits 2,000

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President Donald Trump is assuring Iranian protesters that “help is on the way” after new reports estimated the number of citizens killed during the demonstrations against the Islamic Republic to be in the thousands.

Trump, writing via Truth Social, told the “Iranian patriots” to “keep protesting” and that he will not be meeting with Iranian authorities until the end of the violence, which has thus far killed more than 2,000 people, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a U.S.-based humanitarian and investigative nonprofit organization documenting the carnage.

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