And so our hope resides in that. As far as the president's views on the way protesters were treated, he was very clear about it. And as you saw, Part of what the president said publicly prevented mass executions that were being planned and were on the precipice of. And obviously beyond that, the president retains a number of options to how he responds to that and future events. (07:43–07:50)
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Asserts that public statements by the president prevented planned mass executions in Iran.
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