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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has acknowledged that thousands of people have been killed in the past two weeks in anti-government protests, but blames the US for the death toll. They called President Donald Trump a criminal for supporting protests against tens of thousands of pro-government protesters. The US-based Human Rights Watch reported that 3,090 people were killed, including 2,885 protesters, and more than 22,000 were arrested. CBC News spoke to exiled Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad about the protests.