More than 3,919 people have been killed in the Iranian protests, activists say.

Young protesters shot in the back, shotgun pellets fired in a doctor's face, wounded people afraid to go to hospital: "Every family has been affected" by the deadly crackdown on Iran's recent wave of demonstrations.

Iran has been pressing ahead with arrests following a wave of protests, according to local media and monitors, as the country faces international pressure over a crackdown rights groups said led to thousands of deaths under cover of ongoing internet restrictions.

"Our powerful armed forces have no qualms about firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack," Araghchi wrote in his opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued the Islamic Republic's most direct threat to the United States in an opinion piece published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

As Trump mulls his options, Iran's top diplomat claims more than two weeks of deadly anti-government unrest is under control, and he's willing to negotiate.

Local activist Ziba Dastjerdi, 33, was also allegedly shot in front of her daughter during a protest in Nishapur.

The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown.

U-Haul truck reportedly drives through Iran protest crowd in Los Angeles, striking one person near Federal Building in Westwood. Driver detained by LAPD.