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US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he has cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials amid the brutal crackdown on protesters, telling Iranians "help is on its way."
"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social account.
"I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA [Make Iran Great Again]!!!" he added.
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper condemned in the strongest terms the "horrendous and brutal killing" of protesters in Iran, urging Tehran to end violence and change course.
She also said London had summoned Iran's ambassador to underline the gravity of the situation.
The European Union is discussing additional sanctions against Iran, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday in Berlin.
"The EU already has sweeping sanctions in place on Iran, and we are discussing putting additional sanctions," Kallas said.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said Iran’s authorities had imposed an organized communications blackout to hide the mass killing, calling for urgent international action.
"Iran has fallen into an organized silence," Ebadi wrote on Instagram. "Cutting the internet, paralyzing communications, intimidating witnesses and shutting down media means the government wants to carry out the killing in silence and then erase its traces."
She cited Iran International, which said it had concluded after a multi-stage review of field and medical data, accounts from families and witnesses, and information from sources close to senior security and government bodies, that at least 12,000 people were killed over two consecutive nights on Jan. 8 and 9.
Ebadi said the issue was not only the scale of the deaths but what she described as the pattern of the violence.
"This is organized killing, with direct fire, under the cover of an internet shutdown," she wrote.
She called for the immediate restoration of internet access, an independent international investigation and the documentation and prosecution of those responsible.
A video circulated by Iran’s state media to promote pro-government rallies has gained wide traction online, with social media users questioning its authenticity and pointing to apparent inconsistencies, reflecting broader public mistrust of official messaging.
As nationwide protests continue, authorities have taken steps including staging government-organized countermarches, shutting down the internet, and tightening controls on the media to shape the narrative.
