The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control on Tuesday sanctioned 10 people and entities for weapons trades between Venezuela and Iran.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on 10 individuals and firms from Iran and Venezuela. These sanctions target Iran's drone trade and ballistics program.

Iran’s currency depreciated to record lows against the dollar this week as multiple challenges including oil sanctions, regional tensions and spiraling inflation plague the economy.

Iran is now offering to sell advanced weapons, including Emad ballistic missiles, Shahed drones, Shahid Soleimani-class warships, and Majid short-range air defense systems, to other countries. The country is openly willing to accept cryptocurrency as payment,

Trump threatens U.S. intervention if Iran violently suppresses ongoing protests, escalating tensions after last year's 12-day war between Israel and Iran.

It is too early to arrive at a fully informed reading of street movements in Iran in order to discern a real shift in the country’s trajectory. It is also a mistake to hastily interpret the emergence of “demands-based” protests,

Prospective customers could purchase weapons such as missiles, tanks and drones using crypto, according to a government website.

That posture was on display this week when Iran announced that three of its domestically designed satellites were launched into orbit aboard a Russian rocket. The launch was broadcast by Iran’s Arabic-language state television channel Al-Alam News Network, which aired footage showing the satellites lifting off from Russian territory.

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran is in a “total war” with the US, Israel and Europe amid airstrikes, nuclear tensions, sanctions and stalled talks. With Trump-Netanyahu talks ahead, fears of wider conflict are rising.