00:00U.S. President Donald Trump urged Iranians to keep protesting.
00:06In a social media post, he wrote that help is on the way.
00:09Trump's statement comes just days after he said that Tehran wanted to negotiate with Washington.
00:15Now Trump said he cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials until the quote
00:19senseless killing of protesters stops.
00:22The U.S. president has repeatedly warned that Washington could take military action
00:28if it determined that Tehran was using lethal force against anti-government protesters.
00:33Qatar's foreign ministry, on the other hand, said it would rather resolve the issue through dialogue.
00:39We have been talking to everybody in the region constantly on how to de-escalate.
00:46We know that any escalation of the sort that you described would have catastrophic results in the region and beyond,
00:57and therefore we want to avoid that as much as possible.
01:00Iran has warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be quote legitimate targets
01:05if Washington uses force to protect Iranian protesters.
01:11According to a human rights group, more than 2,000 people have been killed in the crackdown
01:16on the nationwide demonstrations.
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