On Friday, Trump warned that if Iran kills peaceful protesters, “the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”

The payments are the latest step to alleviate economic pressures, but given the severity of the crisis, critics say, they are likely to do little.

The protests have “convulsed Iran for a week,” The New York Times said, and while not yet as large as the “last two major uprisings — one in 2022 led by women and another in 2019 set off by gasoline prices — they have rattled senior officials.”

President Donald Trump warned that if Tehran ‘violently kills peaceful protesters,’ America ‘will come to their rescue’

Protests have spread across Iran for nearly two weeks. The Sky News Data and Forensics team has been tracking their momentum and the regime crackdown.

Iran says it has hanged a man who spied for Israel and is ready for a new military confrontation as it struggles to tamp down domestic unrest.

Tehran is sticking with the program despite crippling Western sanctions, as protests continue and President Trump warns against a bloody crackdown.

Iran’s Chief Justice Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei has issued a stern warning amid nationwide protests triggered by a sharp fall in the Iranian currency and soaring inflation. With demonstrations spreading across Tehran and other cities,