Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has vowed to unleash a regional war if America launches air strikes. Initially few in the Middle East seemed eager for further conflict. The region’s power-brokers tried to dissuade America from military action. But attitudes now look more mixed.

Many people in Tehran and Tel Aviv are worried that Trump will make good on his threats to attack Iran again, but for some, it's fear laced with hope.

US Iran tensions live updates: Tensions between the US and Iran continue to simmer as both nations work to establish the next round of talks.

Israel has warned the US of its readiness to conduct a unilateral military strike against Iran if it exceeds a defined threshold concerning its ballistic missile program.

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu flies to Washington on Tuesday for a hastily arranged White House meeting on Wednesday with US president Donald Trump amid Israeli fears that talks with Iran will be limited to curbing Tehran’s nuclear programme.

The US president is famously unpredictable, but Israel has cast its lot with him. Now, as the PM visits DC, Israel is consumed with one question: Will Trump attack Iran, or won't he? The post TACO time?

Iran has claimed that unexploded American bombs and missiles remain at its nuclear facilities, triggering fresh global concern over nuclear inspections, weapons security, and the possible spread of advanced military technology.

Detainees are accused of trying to disrupt Iran's 'political social order' at a time of threats from the US and Israel.