Iran’s government on Tuesday accused the United States of seeking to manufacture a pretext for military intervention, after US President Donald Trump threatened “strong action” over the deadly crackdown on mass protests.“US fantasies and policy toward Iran are rooted in regime change, with sanctions, threats, engineered unrest, and chaos serving as the modus operandi to manufacture a pretext for military intervention,” Iran’s UN mission posted on X, vowing that Washington’s “playbook” would “fail again.”For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States would react strongly if authorities in Iran started hanging people in their crackdown on a popular uprising against the government.“We will take very strong action if they do such a thing,” he told CBS News in an interview, when asked about hangings potentially beginning on Wednesday.“When they start killing thousands of people -- and now you’re