Michael Barbaro

As massive anti-government protests spread across Iran over the weekend, Iran's president vowed to address the country's economic problems, but showed no signs of backing off a harsh crackdown on demonstrators.

That crackdown, activists say, may have killed as many as 200 people over the past few days.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is warning Iran's leaders that it could strike Iran if the regime continues to kill peaceful protesters.

The Times reports that U.S.

military leaders have begun to brief President Trump on options for such strikes.

And the Trump administration is escalating its long-running feud with the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, by opening a criminal investigation into his conduct.

The investigation centers around whether Powell lied to Congress about the scope of a multi-billion dollar renovation project of the Fed's headquarters.

But Trump's original conflict with Powell stems from his unwillingness to significantly slash interest rates as President Trump had demanded, a reality that Powell highlighted in a video released on Sunday night.

Today's episode was produced by Nina Feldman, Lindsay Garrison, Olivia Nat, and Ricky Nowitzki.

It was edited by Lexi Diao, contains research help from Susan Lee, music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, and Alisha Ba'itu, and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley.

Special thanks to Mitch Smith and Nicholas Bogle-Burroughs.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Michael Barbaro.

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