President Trump thanks Iran for stopping mass executions and signals a step back from earlier suggestions of possible U.S. military action as protests continue.

A cleric leading prayers in Iran's capital has demanded the death penalty for detained protesters, showing the hard-line rage gripping the Islamic Republic.

Speaking by phone to NBC News, Trump didn't say whether he has decided to take action on Iran following previous threats of military intervention over a crackdown on protesters.

Top Trump administration officials met Tuesday to further refine a set of options for the president to take action against Iran amid its deadly crackdown on protesters.

The president's top national security advisers met Tuesday to consider action against Iran over its crackdown on protesters.

There were growing signs that US military action on Iran might be imminent, then the US president suddenly changed his tune.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich has the latest on the commander-in-chief holding off on strikes in Iran on 'Special Report.'

President Donald Trump says he's been told Iran is holding off on executions of protesters it has arrested while the U.S. is telling some American personnel at a U.S. base in the Middle East to leave.

Pahlavi, 65, is the exiled son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, who was ousted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ushered in the Islamic Republic. His name has been a rallying call for protests that started on December 28 and have been met by a violent crackdown that rights groups say has killed thousands.

The president has told his advisers he would want any action to deliver a decisive blow to the Iranian regime, but so far he hasn't gotten that guarantee from them, sources say.

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