Satellite images reveal activity at two Iranian nuclear sites, suggesting that Tehran may be obscuring its efforts to salvage any materials remaining there

Iran-US tensions LIVE updates: While it is not known what Iran's secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and Putin discussed during their meeting on Friday, AFP reported that Russia has offered to play the role of a mediator between the two nations.

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.

Iran’s Islamic Republic, weakened by airstrikes in June and huge popular unrest, warns that it will strike back hard if attacked by the United States. This time, Iran may mean it.

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.

CAIRO -- Rising tensions between Iran and the United States have alarmed regional leaders and sparked urgent calls for renewed diplomacy. Tehran on Friday signaled a conditional willingness to return to the negotiating table to ease the escalating confrontation.

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.

According to federal prosecutors, Carlisle Rivera took part in a failed Iran-backed murder-for-hire plot against Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident.

The United States and Iran are clashing over nuclear programmes, missiles, sanctions and influence, and their demands could decide the fate of the Middle East.