U.S.–Iran Relations and Trump Foreign Policy

Iran’s top prosecutor Mohammad Movahedi called President Trump’s claim that Tehran halted or canceled the executions of “over 800” detained protesters “completely false,” saying no such judicial decision exists and suggesting the figure may have come from the foreign ministry while stressing the judiciary does not take instructions from foreign powers. The White House and Trump insist his warnings spared detainees, even as he threatened “crushing” retaliation and announced a U.S. “armada” en route, amid disputed activist casualty counts in the thousands and growing international concern over possible wider regional escalation.