The European Union is set to sanction Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard over Tehran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as it worries over a threat by Donald Trump to potentially launch a military strike against it. America has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missile destroyers into the Middle East, which can be used to launch attacks from the sea. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier (US Navy via AP) (Brian M. Wilbur/AP)At least 6,373 people have been killed in the protests, activists said. Economic woes had sparked the protests that broadened into challenging the theocracy before the crackdown. “In Iran, the unbearable repression that has engulfed the peaceful revolt of the Iranian people cannot go unanswered,” he said.