As tensions soar over Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, satellite images show activity at two Iranian nuclear sites bombed last year by Israel and the United States that may be a sign of Tehran trying to obscure efforts to salvage any materials remaining there.

Iran launched a crack down on nationwide protests which initially began as demonstrations against the country's economic woes but broadened into a challenge to the Islamic Republic's theocracy. Activists say at least 6,

The strategy is hardly isolationist. Rather, it makes an effort to prioritize interests and lay out the terms and conditions for continued protection from the United States. Nowhere are these tradeoffs more evident than in the NDS’s treatment of the Indo-Pacific.

After weeks of nationwide protests, Iran’s Supreme Leader ordered a violent crackdown that left thousands dead. President Trump, who had urged demonstrators to remain in the streets, ultimately did not intervene — a decision that now shapes the narrow set of options before him.

Tehran has threatened to treat an attack by the US as part of last summer's war, and its response could be more dramatic.

Already, Iran has vastly limited its subsidized currency rates to cut down on corruption. It also has offered the equivalent of $7 a month to most people in the country to cover rising costs. However, Iran’s people have seen the rial fall from a rate of 32,000 to $1 just a decade ago — which has devoured the value of their savings.

By bnm Tehran bureau Iran's acting Friday prayer leader in Tehran said the United States cannot repeat past 'foolishness' following what he described as a 12-day war that demonstrated the country's military capabilities,

The United States maintains tens of thousands of troops and major military facilities across the region, all operating under US Central Command, also known as Centcom.