The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries are trying to track down U.S. citizens, one week after the capture of the South American country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, The Guardian reports.

President Trump is expected to assist Iranians who are protesting nationwide against the Islamic Republic regime, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Said a source: “Trump has essentially decided to help the protesters in Iran. What he has not yet decided is the ‘how’ and the ‘when.'”

The source adds: “While the Trump administration does not believe that the Iranian regime is collapsing, it definitely sees problems and cracks that did not exist a week ago.”

President Trump will be briefed on Tuesday on “some kinetic and many non-kinetic” options in Iran, Politico reports.

“All eyes are on the president’s next moves after he threatened to strike the Iranian regime if it killed civilian protesters. Reports on Sunday indicated hundreds of Iranians have died during the current unrest, though information is limited.”

“The options being presented to Trump would range from targeted strikes inside Iran to offensive cyber attacks, one official granted anonymity to discuss ongoing conversations said, adding that the administration would want to avoid options that create massive civilian impact so things that can be tailored to targeting Iran’s military forces are preferable. The administration is also looking at whether it can send terminals for Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service.”

“Reports of a dramatic escalation in the use of deadly force by Iranian security forces have begun to trickle out of the country despite a severe communications blackout as authorities struggle to contain mass protests,” the Washington Post reports.

“The Center for Human Rights in Iran, based in New York, said it received eyewitness accounts and credible reports indicating that hundreds of protesters have been killed in Iran since the government cut off the country’s access to the internet on Thursday night.”

New York Times: “For a third night in a row, nationwide antigovernment protests rocked Iran, according to witnesses and videos verified by The New York Times, posted on BBC Persian and social media, even as the government intensified its crackdown and the military said it would take to the streets in response to the unrest.”

Axios: Trump considers options as Iran cracks down on protests.

New York Times: “The region’s three largest nations — Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, all led by leftists — criticized the American seizure of President Nicolás Maduro with varying degrees of outrage and diplomacy.”

“A growing roster of right-wing countries, including Argentina, El Salvador and Ecuador, cheered on President Trump.”

“And a collection of smaller nations, like Guatemala and Peru, kept their heads down so Washington might not notice.”

“The divergent reactions show how an increasingly aggressive Trump administration is scrambling the politics of Latin America. While their public responses may be different, they all appear to share a common goal in a new era of U.S. interventionism: self-preservation.”

“Iran will attack American military bases in the Middle East if the U.S. hits first, the country’s parliamentary speaker said Sunday after U.S. officials said the Trump administration was looking at preliminary options for striking Iranian military sites,” the Wall Street Journal reports.