It’s being reported tonight that President Trump has been briefed on options for military strikes in Iran as unrest has spread throughout the country.

Trump has sent multiple warnings to Iran, threatening air strikes if they kill protesters. But they’ve ignored the warning and have reportedly killed scores of protesters already.

Here’s more from the report:

President Trump has been briefed in recent days on new options for military strikes in Iran as he considers following through on his threat to attack the country for cracking down on protesters, according to multiple U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Mr. Trump has not made a final decision, but the officials said he was seriously considering authorizing a strike in response to the Iranian regime’s efforts to suppress demonstrations set off by widespread economic grievances. The president has been presented with a range of options, including strikes on nonmilitary sites in Tehran, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential conversations.

Asked about planning for potential strikes, the White House referred to Mr. Trump’s public comments and social media posts in recent days.
“Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media on Saturday. “The USA stands ready to help!!!”

The demonstrations in Iran began in late December in response to a currency crisis, but they have since spread and grown in size as many Iranians have called for wholesale changes to the country’s authoritarian government. Iranian officials have threatened to crack down on the demonstrations, and dozens of protesters have been killed, according to human rights groups.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Friday that the government would “not back down” in the face of large-scale protests.

Senior U.S. officials said on Saturday that at least some of the options presented to Mr. Trump for the situation in Iran would be tied directly to elements of the country’s security services that are using violence to put down the growing protests.

At the same time, though, U.S. officials said they had to be careful that any military strikes did not have the opposite effect — galvanizing the Iranian public to support the government — or trigger a set of retaliatory strikes that could threaten U.S. military and diplomatic personnel in the region.

A senior U.S military official said that commanders in the region would want more time before any potential attack to consolidate U.S. military positions and prepare defenses for any possible retaliatory strikes by Iran.

U.S. officials said any military action would have to balance how to fulfill Mr. Trump’s promise to punish the government in Tehran if it cracked down on the protesters with not making the situation worse.