Iran protests entered day 24 with 4,519 confirmed deaths. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei backs security forces amid nationwide demonstrations.

Supreme Leader has moved into a fortified underground shelter in Tehran amid heightened fears of a possible US military strike, Iran International reported. | World News

The bloody crackdown offers hints about growing tensions inside the country’s ruling system as the cleric’s rule comes under strain.

Tehran "smells of death," Iranian journalist Elaheh Mohammadi posted on X on Tuesday in a breach of the ongoing internet blockade imposed by the authorities amid the deadly unrest that rocked the country.

The scale of nationwide protests in Iran and the bloody crackdown that has followed is slowly coming into focus, even though authorities have cut off the country from the internet.

Our powerful armed forces have no qualms about firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack,” Abbas Araghchi wrote in an op-ed.

Tsafrir, a veteran Mossad and Shin Bet official and Israel’s last station chief in Tehran before 1979, played a central role in Israel’s early regional intelligence efforts. Eliezer Tsafrir, a senior Mossad and Shin Bet official whose career spanned Israel’s formative decades and who served as the last Mossad station chief in Tehran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution,

Witness testimony and videos from Tehran’s largest cemetery show disrespectful treatment of the dead after a brutal government crackdown.

Several Iranians who protested in Iran over the past few days have spoken to CNN about seeing enormous crowds as well as brutal violence on the streets of Tehran, with one woman saying she saw “bodies piled up on each other” in a hospital.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday hinted at possible talks with Iran, days after he warning of attack amid violent protests going on in the middle-east country."Iran does wanna talk and we will talk,