A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, an operation at sea aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal.

Trump said that Iran could have avoided the devastation if it had accepted a deal before the strikes. “Forget about the nuclear. The nuclear is gone. But look at the damage they've suffered, the death that they've suffered. They could have had a deal where nobody would have died.”

Tehran called on the United Nations to intervene in what it called the "tightening of restrictions on Iran's diplomatic mission to the United Nations in New York", according to a foreign ministry statement published on Thursday.

Gunmen have killed three members of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan

Iran has brought in fresh petrol price increases, as US sanctions force the oil-rich country to import refined fuel. Tehran is reducing fuel subsidies to save money, as its economy is under strain and it faces a widening energy crisis despite possessing the world’s third-largest oil and second-largest natural gas reserves.

Rain has finally fallen in Iran's capital after months of drought. The country is experiencing its driest autumn in over 50 years.

Tehran says there is “no greater honor than seeing…superpowers kneel before an Iranian drone,” as the U.S. deploys copied drones.

Dec 13 (Reuters) - Iranian ‌authorities ​detained 18 crew ‌members of a foreign tanker ​seized in the Gulf of Oman ‍on Friday that ​they said was carrying ​6 ⁠million litres of smuggled fuel, Iranian media reported on Saturday, citing the Hormozgan province judiciary.