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President Donald Trump said Monday that he'll impose a tariff of 25% on any country that does business with Iran. "Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This story is breaking. Check back for updates.

The country has been rocked by two weeks of widespread protests since the currency collapsed. Widespread unrest, killings and arrests have taken place during protests in Iran sparked by a collapse in the local currency. The leadership says that it will listen to demonstrators, but that rioters face the death penalty. As the United States warns against a crackdown, how volatile is the situation?

Staff at three hospitals in Iran have told the BBC their facilities are overwhelmed with dead or injured patients, as major anti-government protests continue. A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode. Two of the medical workers who spoke to the BBC said they treated gunshot wounds from both live ammunition and pellets.

United States Senator Lindsey Graham has shared a photo of President Donald Trump holding a signed hat that says Make Iran Great Again, fuelling concerns about the possibility of renewed war with Iran. Graham, a Trump ally and foreign policy hawk, posted the picture on X on Monday, saying that Trump has made the US stronger at home and abroad. list of 3 itemsend of list God bless our Commander in Chief and all of the brave men and women who serve under him,

"As with the protests since December 2017, there's often an economic catalyst," she told DW. "But if we listen to the slogans, and the extent of the protests, it's about profound dissatisfaction with the Iranian regime and the desire for that regime to disappear."

Ikramuddin Saree, a former police commander in Afghanistan's Takhar and Baghlan provinces under the pre-Taliban republic, was shot dead on the evening of December 24 outside his office in Tehran. Sources close to him and the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan confirmed the killing, saying Saree and a companion died while another was wounded. Ali Maisam Nazary, a spokesman for the opposition group, accused the Taliban of orchestrating the assassination. The Taliban has not commented.

On the streets of Iran's capital, Tehran, young women are increasingly flouting the compulsory hijab laws, posting videos online that show them walking the streets unveiled. Their defiance comes more than three years after the killing of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman taken into custody by the morality police for allegedly breaching the dress code rules. Her death led to the largest wave of popular unrest for years in Iran and a crackdown by security services in response,

His life is in grave danger, the execution of his death sentence could occur at any moment, said Shahin Gobadi, of the foreign affairs committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a coalition of opposition movements. One has to keep in mind that in the past six years, the regime has used extensive torture and has tried hard to force him to renounce the MEK.

In March, Carlson mused that a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East, and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars. A bombing campaign against Iran will set off a war, and it will be America's war. Don't let the propagandists lie to you, he added for good measure.

In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview recorded in October with Al Jazeera's Fault Lines documentary programme, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells correspondent Hind Hassan that strikes by Israel and the United States in June caused serious damage to Iran's nuclear facilities but insists its nuclear programme will continue.

Yeah, we are the world's No. 1 bully, and we're using our immense, unrivaled power to rule over those who have less power. And we're doing it with impunity, declared Johnson. And this sends a shocking message to the world that America is indeed the-, what did they used to call? The great hand of Satan, or something like that? I mean, America under the Trump regime is demonstrating that that moniker was entirely accurate.

"Despite previous warnings regarding the need to comply with the country's current laws and regulations, as well as religious, customary, and professional principles...the event was held in a way that violated public decency," the judiciary's Mizan news outlet quoted the local prosecutor's office as saying. "Considering the violations that occurred and based on the laws and regulations, a criminal case has been filed against the officials and agents organizing this event," the report added. Mizan said that "two of the main organizers of the competition were arrested on warrants."

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran has decided to boycott the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington next week because the U.S. denied visas to members of its delegation, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Friday. The agency quoted Iranian soccer federation spokesman Amir-Mahdi Alavi as saying that officials faced visa obstacles that go beyond sports considerations. There was no immediate comment from the White House. Alavi said the federation had reached out to FIFA and hoped it could help resolve the issue. Soccer's ruling body didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.

"The Islamic Republic believes it can score points by showing strength," Middle East expert and veteran journalist Menashe Amir told DW. However, "the strategy of demonstrating strength could backfire on Iran this time," he added. Amir said that Iran has lost much of its regional influence, with Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi rebels, and proxy groups in Iraq and Syria all significantly weakened. If the Iranian leadership is not prepared to at least publicly distance itself from its confrontational policy toward the West, this could make another war inevitable, he warned.

Iran said on Saturday that it was no longer bound by the 2015 agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), under which international sanctions were lifted in exchange for limitations on Tehran's nuclear programme. From now on all of the provisions [of the 2015 deal], including the restrictions on the Iranian nuclear programme and the related mechanisms are considered terminated, Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement.