Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, the deadliest street

protests since Iran's revolution. Demonstrators face a ruthless crackdown while President Trump promises help is on the way.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears a landmark case on whether transgender people

can be banned from girls and women's sports. And survivors of alleged abuse by an army

doctor speak out publicly for the first time. If we continue to be silent, it's just going to continue

to happen. And we can't have that for our

daughters, for the soldiers that are coming after us.

Welcome to the News Hour.

Tonight, the State Department says all Americans should leave Iran, as protests there are entering their third week and tens of thousands of people continue to take to the streets

despite a deadly crackdown. President Trump tonight said that the

death toll appears significant. Western officials say at least 2,000 have been killed and perhaps

many more. That would make these protests the deadliest since the 1979 revolution, and analysts say

they could threaten the regime itself. Nick Schiffran reports.

Today in Iran, defiance.

Protesters denounce the regime right in front of its security forces.

Despite live ammunition shot into the crowds, a brutal crackdown that Western officials say has been led

not by police, but by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Estimates vary widely, but Western officials said today at least 2,000 have been killed,

perhaps many times that. This crackdown, combined with an internet cutoff, has led to slightly fewer protests today

and a climate of extreme fear.

According to a man in southern Iran we spoke to today by phone, whose name we are changing

to Merhadad.

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