BRUSSELS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The EU is expected to sanction some 20 Iranian individuals and entities under its human rights rules this week but is not expected to add Iran's Revolutionary Guards to its terrorist list due to opposition from France,

Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests has killed at least 6,159 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Middle East to lead any American military response to the crisis.

A visual investigation by The New York Times shows the breadth and ferocity of the regime’s crackdown across the country.

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Monday hinted they were ready to resume attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.

As Iranians have begun receiving brief windows of internet connectivity, the true extent of the crackdown has begun to emerge as testimonies, videos, and confirmation of killings and arrests have begun to trickle out of the country.

The death toll from the ongoing unrest in Iran has reportedly climbed dramatically amid a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, with independent estimates suggesting that tens of thousands of people may have been killed,

If the estimates are true, the only comparable massacre in history databases would be the murder of 33,000 Jews in the Babyn Yar massacre during the Holocaust outside of Kyiv in 1941.

Authorities in Iran have unveiled a mural in a central Tehran square with a warning to the United States not to attempt a military strike on the country.