As Netanyahu meets Trump, intelligence suggests Iran accelerating chemical weapons work while facing unprecedented domestic unrest and economic crisis.

Iran seized a foreign oil tanker as it traveled the strategic Strait of Hormuz carrying some 25,000 barrels of smuggled fuel, state media said.

This year, there are two films vying for the best international feature film Oscar which are set in Iran, following a group of people, mostly strangers to each other, traveling in a van with a person that they may have to bury in the desert.

Widespread protests by traders, shopkeepers broke out in several major cities after Iran’s currency, the rial, plunged to an all-time low against the US dollar.

At a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, President Donald Trump issued a warning about Iran, saying the regime "may be behaving badly" and invoking the phrase "where there's smoke,

The currency’s slide has accelerated as oil revenues have shrunk under sanctions from the US, which briefly joined the war to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites. The country’s stubbornly high inflation rate rose to 42.2 per cent in December year on year.

Iran's president urged his government to listen to the "legitimate demands" of protesters, state media reported Tuesday, after several days of demonstrations by shopkeepers in Tehran over economic hardships.