A week after the demonstrations broke out, there were no reports of fresh protests in local media overnight, while videos on social media suggested only limited unrest in provincial towns which could not be immediately verified.
As Washington suggested it may be looking to impose fresh sanctions on Tehran, Iranian authorities were weighing options including blocking unpopular measures in President Hassan Rouhani's recent budget.
State television showed huge crowds marching in support of the government across 10 cities early today, including Isfahan, Ardebil and Mashhad, where the protests first erupted last Thursday.
"We are together behind the leader," chanted the crowds, in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"The revolutionary Iranian people have responded in time to the enemies and trouble-makers by coming out on the streets," Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Khamenei, told the semi-official ISNA news agency.
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