In a parallel action to the US sanctions, Defense Minister Israel Katz issued an official statement defining the Iranian State Bank Melli as a terrorist organization. The United States imposed sanctions on five Iranian officials it accused of being behind the crackdown on protests and warned it was tracking regime leaders' funds being wired to banks around the world on Thursday,

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called US President Donald Trump last week, the Iran attack was delayed.Part of the reason Netanyahu asked for a delay was that Israel was caught off guard by Washington's sudden readiness to attack,

There is broad support for the protests among Israeli officials, but Palestinians say they hope the Iranian regime stays in place and the protests die down soon.

Columbia professor claims Israel allegedly orchestrating Iran protests with Mossad agents, citing former CIA director's social media post as evidence.

As waves of protests have tested the Iranian regime’s ability to manage dissent, the country with arguably the most to gain has been waiting in the wings, reluctant to intervene even when its regional adversary is at its most vulnerable point in years.

Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.

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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.