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Pompeo urges Iranian protesters to send vids, info. to document "crackdown"

WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (KUNA) -- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Thursday evening the Iranians to send videos and information to document the "crackdown on protesters." "I have asked the Iranian protestors to send us their videos, photos, and information documenting the regime's crackdown on protestors," Pompeo tweeted.

He warned that the US "will expose and sanction the abuses." Earlier Thursday, President Donald Trump tweeted that Iran "has become so unstable that the regime has shut down their entire Internet System so that the Great Iranian people cannot talk about the tremendous violence taking place within the country."

On Sunday, the White House affirmed US' support for the Iranian people "in their peaceful protests against the regime that is supposed to lead them." "Iranians have been staging protests since last Friday against the government's decision to increase fuel prices.

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