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Around 250,000 Iranians demonstrated in Munich, with nearly as many rallying in Toronto and Los Angeles on Saturday, heeding calls by exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
Iranians also took to the streets in other cities around the world, including 50,000 in London, for global rallies in solidarity with protests inside Iran.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that regime change in Iran would be ideal after 47 years of fruitless talks, amid escalating tensions.
Washington is redeploying the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford from the Caribbean to the Middle East, a move that will station two US carrier strike groups in the region as friction with Iran intensifies.
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The Toronto and Los Angeles rallies of Iranians each drew 350,000 people, according to the two cities’ police.
US chief negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have told President Donald Trump that history shows it is difficult, if not impossible, to reach a good deal with Iran, Axios reported citing a US official.
In their recent meeting in Washington DC, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Trump it is impossible to make a good deal with Iran and claimed that even if a deal is signed, Iran will not abide by it, the report said citing a US official.
Trump told Netanyahu he thinks there is a chance to reach a deal with Iran, the official said.
"We'll see if it's possible. Let's give it a shot", Trump said, according to the US official.
Drone footage from Los Angeles captures a massive rally of tens of thousands of Iranians who gathered on Saturday in response to a call by exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, expressing solidarity with protesters back home and urging greater international support.
Tens of thousands of Iranians attended a massive rally in Toronto on Saturday, heeding a call by exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, to express solidarity with protesters back home.
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said on Saturday Ottawa wants to see a regime change in Iran.
“We will not open diplomatic relationships with Iran unless there is a regime change. Period,” she told The Globe and Mail in Germany.
"I serve under a president that's willing to meet with anybody. I'm pretty confident in saying that if the Ayatollah said tomorrow he wanted to meet with President Trump, the president would meet him," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Bloomberg.
"Not because he agrees with the Ayatollah, but because he thinks that's the way you solve problems in the world."
There is "zero chance" that Iran agrees to anything the US proposes or vice versa,” Axios reported citing a US official.
US chief negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner told Trump that history shows it is difficult, if not impossible, to reach a good deal with Iran, the report said citing another US official.
Iranians chanted slogans from their homes and rooftops against the Islamic Republic in response to a call by exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
An eyewitness from Mehrshahr, Karaj, told Iran International that government forces responded by opening fire at their windows.