The conflict between the Iranian regime and millions of protesters, now in its nineteenth day, stands at a pivotal moment. Almost everyone agrees that a change in government would dramatically affect the future of the Middle East.
President Trump revealed to reporters on Wednesday that he’s been told the killings have stopped.
The president declared, “We have been informed by very important sources on the other side, and they said the killing has stopped and the executions won’t take place. There was supposed to be a lot of executions today, and that the executions won’t take place. And we’re going to find out.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Fox News that there are no plans for executions and that there have been no protests for several days. That is not what others are hearing.
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Iranian-born activist Goldie Ghamari tells CBN News that the number of deaths is staggering.
“But there are some Iranians who have been able to get ahold of a friend or family inside. And what they are saying is that the situation is incredibly dire. The amount of casualties is higher than what’s even being reported in the media.”
Ghamari added, “So it really is now or never, because what Iranians are saying is that if we do not overthrow the regime, then every single person who has been slaughtered these last two days, it will all have been in vain.”
Ghamari maintains that the regime is waging war on its people to survive.
“It’s war. It’s war out there,” she said. “Iranians are unarmed, and the Islamic regime, the Islamic dictatorship, they’ve now brought in their proxy forces, like Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis. All that was funded by the Islamic Republic. So those same terrorist groups are murdering Iranians as well.”
Throughout the region, preparations are underway for a potential confrontation between the U.S. and Iran. Some U.S. personnel have been told to leave the U.S. military base in Qatar.
A U.S. carrier strike group is on its way to the Middle East, and here in Israel, the country is preparing for a possible retaliation for the U.S. attacks.
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