US president says he ‘may have to act’ before talks amid crackdown that rights group says has led to at least 538 deaths ‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down Iranian student killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’ Analysis: Unpredictable Trump weighs up Iranian pleas for help against calls for restraint Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi has claimed the protests have now “come under total control” after the violence spiked over the weekend, according to comments being carried by Al Jazeera , which we have not been able to verify the veracity of yet. Araqchi was also quoted as having said the protests “turned violent and bloody to give an excuse” for the US president, Donald Trump, to intervene. Continue reading...