Trump accuses Iranian regime of killing 75,000 protesters in past eight months

US President Donald Trump alleged during a rally in Kansas that Iranian regime has killed a minimum of 75,000 protesters over the past eight months. He stated, "They did a lot of killing. And by the way, in the last eight months, they've killed 75,000 minimum protesters." Trump also claimed that the Iranian regime uses machine guns to shoot protesters down when they have no other means of resistance.

He went on to say, "Somebody said, I wonder why they don't protest. Well, well, it's a little hard when you got machine guns at the end of the street shooting you down."

Trump further asserted that the Iranian regime executes the killed protesters by hanging them from cranes for all to see, calling it a "very sad thing" and describing them as a "rough group." Later in the rally, he mentioned that his request for NATO allies to assist the US in its war against Iran was a test. Trump explained, "When we ask for help and Iran help, which we didn't need, we didn't need - but I wanted to, I was testing, I wanted to find out."

He added, "Because we spend so much money in NATO, so we asked for help that we didn't need. I wanted to see they weren't there to help." Trump concluded by saying, "They said, it's just something that we can never really forget. You know, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO protecting them. But when we said, would you like to help? No."