Siavash Adelan

We will identify you and come arrest you.

Get off the fence.

We will come arrest you.

Up to now, the Iranian authorities had not mentioned any statistics, not even hundreds, let alone thousands.

We only had heard about a few dozen security forces, members of the IRGC or the paramilitary Basij.

and a handful of ordinary citizens to have died in the hands of what the regime called rioters and vigilantes.

One Iranian official had said two-thirds of the overall death toll is from that category of people.

Whether this was a slip of the tongue by the Iranian supreme leader, he's mentally still very sharp at 86, so he probably knows what he is saying.

It's very significant that he says thousands of people were killed, but he doesn't mean the protesters.

He is saying that the people affiliated with the government were killed.

And Donald Trump keeps changing his word at any second.

And when he thanked the Iranian authorities for not executing

800 people, something that wasn't true to begin with.

There wasn't even a plan to execute 800 people.

And then he comes out and says that he stopped the execution of those people.

And thanks, the Iranian supreme leader, who many Iranians now see as the person who ordered these killings, which some people think it's up to 20,000 people,

Many Iranians now feel angry and they feel betrayed because in the height of the protests, it was really many people relying on the promise of Donald Trump to intervene militarily, went out in the street thinking that somehow the U.S.

has thought this out, that there is an actionable plan to stop these terrorists.

security forces for massacring the people.

And that turned out to be completely false.