"I stopped eight hundred and thirty seven hangings on Thursday. They would have 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. It's an ancient culture. Eight hundred and thirty seven, mostly young men, were going to be hung on Thursday."
"And I said, If you hang those people, you're going to be hit harder than you've ever been hit. It'll make what we did to your Iran nuclear look like peanuts. And an hour before this horrible thing was going to take place they canceled it. And they actually said they canceled it. They didn't postpone it. They canceled it. So that was a good sign."
"Where do things stand with Iran? a reporter asked the president. The U.S. has got sizable military assets. The president claimed that while U.S. ships were en route, their presence was meant as a precautionary measure. We're watching Iran. We're watching Iran, said Trump. You know, we have a lot of ships going that direction just in case. He continued: We have a big flotilla going in that direction, and we'll see what happens."
U.S. naval forces are moving a large flotilla toward Iran as a precaution amid heightened tensions and recent mass execution threats. The president described the deployment as a deterrent and expressed a preference not to use force. He credited U.S. pressure with stopping 837 scheduled hangings and warned Iran that consequences would exceed previous actions against its nuclear program. The president signaled willingness to accept talks with Iranian rulers after stepping back from threats of military response. U.S. officials anonymously confirmed movement of military assets into the region.
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