Danielle Kurtzleben

Hours prior to the president's post, the Department of Homeland Security posted that an agent in Minneapolis had shot a person in the leg.

They said the person is in the country illegally, resisted arrest, and attacked the officer.

Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.

In a video announcement, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said previous sanctions have successfully pressured Iran by slowing the economy.

However, he added these new sanctions target sanction evasion.

The protests started at the end of December in response to the collapse of the country's currency.

but grew to be more broadly against the country's authoritarian leadership.

Trump posted on social media that he plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from any country doing business with Iran.

However, the White House has not yet released an executive order imposing this tariff.

In addition, much remains unclear.

Trump did not reveal what law would authorize this tariff, nor whether it will stack on top of existing tariffs.

According to World Bank data, Iran's biggest trading partners as of 2022 included China, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates.

Trump has threatened military action against Iran as the government attacks protesters there.

According to a U.S.-based monitoring group, nearly 500 protesters have died.

Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.

In the George W. Bush era, neoconservatives believed that exporting U.S.

values like liberal democracy and human rights justified regime change in Iraq.

U.S.

fatigue with that war lessened Americans' appetite for interventionism.

When Trump won the presidency in 2016 advocating against foreign entanglements, it was viewed as a rebuke of the neocons.