Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a public speech on Jan. 17 that Trump is a "criminal" and responsible for the protests’ casualties due to his support for the demonstrations. That same day, the U.S. president said the country needed “new leadership" in the interview with Politico.

Top Trump administration officials met Tuesday to further refine a set of options for the president to take action against Iran amid its deadly crackdown on protesters.

The ayatollah claimed in a defiant address that "the Iranian nation has defeated America" as Trump appeared to partially back away from threats to intervene.

Iran's supreme leader accused President Donald Trump of orchestrating protests as tensions escalate. State radio broadcasts threats as thousands reported dead.

Emerging on Tuesday from a late-night Situation Room meeting to discuss options for striking Iran, some of President Donald Trump’s top national security officials were relatively sure a decision on military action was close at hand.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for supporting Iranian protesters.

More than 2,500 people have died during nationwide protests in Iran over the past 17 days, activists said Wednesday.

Oil recovered from earlier losses to trade little changed as the market weighed the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Greenland, while tensions over Iran cooled.

When Shahrzad went to demonstrate in the streets of Tehran on January 2, she was buoyed by one fact: The day before, President Trump had promised that if Iran killed protesters, “the United States of America will come to their rescue.”