The unrest in Iran has seen over 2,000 deaths, according to human rights groups, as security forces crack down on protests.

"Treasury will use every tool to target those behind the regime’s tyrannical oppression of human rights,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a press release.

Here are the key questions about Iran’s protests, what sparked them, how the government is responding, and why U.S. involvement has become a central issue, answered.

Demonstrations that began as outrage over the economy are facing a brutal crackdown as President Trump weighs military action.

Iran has deployed new techniques to swiftly and decisively crush nationwide protests, signaling a tactical shift by a regime that now views domestic dissent as an extension of the summer war with Israel.

Demonstrations have reached over 170 locations in 25 of Iran’s 31 provinces, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported Sunday. The death toll had reached at least 15 killed, it added, with more than 580 arrests. The group, which relies on an activist network inside of Iran for its reporting, has been accurate in past unrest.

Iran's government imposes five-day internet blackout as nationwide protests intensify, with at least 646 people killed and over 10,000 arrested during the crackdown.

Law enforcement and demonstrators clashed last night near where a federal agent shot and injured a man after he allegedly assaulted the agent. The city is reeling over last week’s fatal shooting by an ICE agent of Renee Good sparked nationwide protests.

Fresh reports suggest Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's clerical regime turned to Arabic-speaking Shia militias from Iraq to brutally crush the Iran protests. It imported nearly 5,000 fighters under the cover of religious pilgrimages to suppress the anti-Khamenei uprising.

The Iranian authorities' crackdown on nationwide protests has largely quieted the movement for now, residents said, as US President Donand Trump appears to have backed down from his threats of attacking Iran's leadership.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey calls for peace amid ICE protests after a Venezuelan immigrant allegedly attacked a federal agent with a shovel during operations.

Nationwide protests in Iran are putting new pressure on its theocracy as the country faces an economic crisis.