At least 72 people have been killed in the protests and over 2,300 others have been detained, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. However, Masih Alinejad, a prominent Iranian activist and journalist living in the United States, said “hundreds of protesters” have been killed.

Donald Trump is weighing up possible options against Iran – some of the military – as massive anti-government protests rick the Islamic Republic.

“I keep calling my family but there has been no answer, no internet, no telephone. “Nobody can speak to them and they (the Iranian regime) are killing people in silence.”