US President Donald Trump renewed the threat of military action against Iran late Thursday as reports of rising death tolls from a brutal government crackdown on protests reach the outside world. “We’re watching Iran,” said Trump. That death toll exceeds all other protests or unrest in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk urged Tehran on Friday to end its “brutal ⁠repression,” saying that children included the thousands killed. ​He called the crackdown “a pattern of subjugation and ⁠overwhelming ​force that can never address people’s ‌grievances ‌and frustrations.”The UN Human Rights Council also voted on Friday for a probe into human rights abuses in Iran.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 24, 2026 13:56 UTC