President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government over its crackdown on protests.

A source inside Iran who was able to call out told CBS News on Tuesday that activist groups working to compile a full death toll from the protests, based on reports from medical officials across the country, believed the toll was at least 12,000, and possibly as high as 20,000.

Panelists on "CNN This Morning" shot down a conservative commentator's justification for a violent crackdown on protesters in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Activists say the death toll in the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran spiked Sunday to at least 538 people. The U.S.

More than 2,000 federal immigration agents are in Minnesota, and that number is expected to increase. On Monday, an NPR reporter witnessed multiple instances where immigration agents drove around Minneapolis — and in parking lots of big box stores — and randomly questioned people about their immigration status.

Iran’s army vowed to join the crackdown on protesters, one of a number of stepped-up warnings from the country’s security services as protests against the regime continue to grow and the death toll mounts.

South Sudan’s security forces have since late June 2025 conducted sweeping arbitrary arrests of boys and young men and women under the guise of a crackdown on criminals in the country’s capital, Juba.

Protests in Iran have continued for nearly two weeks, with the government acknowledging the unrest despite a harsh crackdown.