Iran has denied US President Donald Trump’s claims that his threats of military action against the Islamic Republic resulted in the cancellation of over 800 executions.
Iranian Judge Mohammad Movahedi told the judiciary-linked Mizan agency that this number is “completely false.”
“No such number exists, nor has the judiciary made any such decision,” he went on to say.
The US president repeated his claim while on Air Force One a day earlier, and issued a new threat against Iran.
“I stopped 837 hangings … They would’ve been dead, every one of them would have been hung. This is like from a thousand years ago. This is an ancient culture. Very smart people by the way. But it’s an ancient culture. Eight-hundred and thirty-seven, mostly young men, were gonna be hung … and I said ‘If you hang those people, you’re gonna be hit harder than you’ve ever been hit,’” Trump said.
“It’ll make what we did to your nuclear look like peanuts,” he added. “An hour before this was supposed to take place, they cancelled it.”
“We have an armada; we have a massive fleet heading in that direction. Maybe we won’t have to use them, we’ll see.”
“We have a big force going towards Iran. I’d rather not see anything happen but we’re watching them very closely,” Trump threatened.
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