The death toll over 16 days of mass anti-government protests in Iran reached 2,000 as of Monday, according to data published by the the U.S.-based HRANA.

Erfan Soltani, a 26-year-old Iranian man, has been sentenced to death in Iran amid widespread protests and a deadly government crackdown, according to human rights groups.

A source inside Iran who was able to call out told CBS News on Tuesday that activist groups working to compile a full death toll from the protests, based on reports from medical officials across the country, believed the toll was at least 12,000, and possibly as high as 20,000.

The Trump administration allegedly made the first high-level contact with the Iranian opposition amid intensifying nationwide anti-regime protests.

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