Iran Protests and Regime Crackdown

State media, citing the Martyrs Foundation, announced an official death toll of 3,117 from weeks of nationwide protests — a count substantially lower than independent tallies from the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency and other groups amid a near‑total internet blackout and mass arrests. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated in a Wall Street Journal op‑ed that Iran would retaliate "with everything we have" if the U.S. attacks, even as Washington weighs options from sanctions and cyber operations to possible strikes and has repositioned naval forces toward the region.