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At least seven protesters have been killed in Iran as demonstrations grow

and tensions mount over the nation's economic collapse.

NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.

President Trump says the U.S. will come to the rescue of Iranian citizens unless the violence against them stops.

In a post on truth social, President Trump warns Iran that, quote,

we are locked and loaded and ready to go if Iran kills peaceful protesters.

Iran has accused the U.S. and Israel of stoking the protests. Ali Larjani, who's on Iran's

National Security Council, writes on X, that the American people should know that Trump started

this adventurism. The Trump administration carried out a massive bombing campaign of Iran's

nuclear sites last year, and Israel is now sounding the alarm about

Iran's ballistic missile program, a topic Israel's prime minister raised with Trump earlier this

week. The protests in Iran are about the economy and the collapsing currency. Michelle Kellerman

NPR News, Tel Aviv. Swiss officials continue to investigate the cause of the blaze early New Year's Day at an alpine ski resort

that left at least 40 people dead and more than 100 injured.

Terry Schultz reports, officials say it appears sparklers that were lit inside the bar set the ceiling on fire.

Flowers and candles are piled along the path leading to their constellation, the bar in

Kram, Montana, where a New Year's celebration turned into a deadly tragedy. Swiss authorities

say they've identified most of the dead and the injured. Judicial police chief Colonel Pierre

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