PARIS: US President Donald Trump urged Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting against the country’s theocratic leadership, telling them “help is on its way” as international outrage grows over a crackdown one rights group said has likely killed thousands. Iranian authorities insisted they had regained control after successive nights of mass protests nationwide since Thursday that have posed one of the biggest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 Islamic revolution that ousted the shah.

The US president issued a statement as Iran’s clerical regime claimed to have arrested 100 ‘armed rioters’

Fresh protests erupt in Iran amid internet blackouts, as Trump offers U.S. support for demonstrators challenging the regime.