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.

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.

Iran’s neighbors are on edge over the possibility that President Trump will pull the trigger on strikes against Iran, as Tehran and its allies have promised to forcefully retaliate against U.S. positions,

Iran-US latest: Tehran tells Trump it has ‘finger on the trigger’ after president’s nuclear deal warning - Trump said an attack would be ‘far worse’ than strikes launched against the country’s nuclear

Several key U.S. allies in the Middle East have engaged in intensive diplomacy between Iran and the United States, aiming to stave off a military conflict, a Gulf official told CBS News.

Iran would be unable to repel a possible US air attack but has the capability to retaliate against US military and commercial interests in the region, experts said.

By Maha El Dahan and Andrew Mills DUBAI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Four Arab states conducted intense diplomacy with the United States and Iran this week to prevent a threatened U.S. attack on Iran over Tehran's use of force against protesters that they feared would have impacts across the region,

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated on Thursday that his country has deployed an "enormous fleet" in waters near Iran and issued a direct warning to Tehran to end the repression against the protests that have been shaking the country for weeks.

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

Amid rising tensions between Iran and the United States, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has issued a sharp warning to Washington as American warships move toward the Middle East. Gen. Mohammad Pakpour,