The Iranian currency on Tuesday plunged to a record low as the regime tries to suppress the biggest protest in its 47-year history. Iran’s rial is now trading at 1.5 million to the dollar, down nearly half from when President Donald Trump took office.
Nationwide protests first erupted after the Iranian rial crashed in late December, largely due to President Trump’s Maximum Pressure policy. In recent weeks, the Khamenei regime has been cracking down on the unrest by massacring thousands of protesters while keeping the country in a near-total internet blackout.
Reuters reported:
Iran’s currency dropped to a record low of 1,500,000 rials to the U.S. dollar on Tuesday, according to Iranian currency tracking websites, weeks after protests sparked by the rial’s dwindling value rocked the country.The rial has lost about 5% of its value over the course of this month, according to data from the currency tracking website Bonbast.com. (…)Iran’s currency dropped to a record low of 1,500,000 rials to the U.S. dollar on Tuesday, according to Iranian currency tracking websites, weeks after protests sparked by the rial’s dwindling value rocked the country.The rial has lost about 5% of its value over the course of this month, according to data from the currency tracking website Bonbast.com.
The Iranian currency hits a new low amid reports that intelligence briefings delivered to President Trump reveal that the Mullah regime is at its ‘weakest point’ since it grabbed power in 1979. “President Trump has received multiple U.S. intelligence reports indicating that the Iranian government’s position is weakening, according to several people familiar with the information,” the New York Times reported Monday. “The reports signal that the Iranian government’s hold on power is at its weakest point since the shah was overthrown in the 1979 revolution.”
Meanwhile, the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group has arrived in the Middle East. The ‘armada,’ as President Trump calls it, brings massive firepower and long-range strike capabilities to the U.S. military’s existing capabilities in the region. The Associated Press reported Monday:
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying warships have arrived in the Middle East, bringing a renewed potential that President Donald Trump could opt to order airstrikes on Iran over its crackdown on protesters.The carrier, along with three destroyers, “is currently deployed to the Middle East to promote regional security and stability,” U.S. Central Command said Monday on social media. (…)The aircraft carrier hosts multiple squadrons of aircraft, including F-35 Lightning II fighter jets and F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets. Meanwhile, the destroyers bring with them hundreds of missiles, which could include dozens of Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles.
Earlier this month, President Trump warned Tehran that the U.S. was “locked and loaded and ready to go.” If the regime “kills peaceful protesters,” the U.S. will “come to their rescue,” he promised on Truth Social. The regime has since intensified the deadly crackdown, reportedly massacring tens of thousands of Iranians. Tehran also denied claims that it had halted the planned execution of hundreds of protesters, as announced by President Trump. Media reports published over the weekend claim that the regime forces may have killed between 30 and 36 thousand protesters in the span of merely four weeks.
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