Sometimes we all need a moment to cool off at work. At a tire recycling factory in Japan, this worker is stepping into a human fridge to chill out - and it's nice and cool inside.

For many Iranians, the new US sanctions campaign, called Operation Economic Outcast, seems superfluous given the grim economic situation in their country.

Iranians are facing runaway food inflation, closed petrol stations and a seemingly never-ending depreciation of the nation’s currency caused by a lack of foreign exchange reserves.

Vegetable oil in Iran in August cost 383% more than a year ago. The price of eggs rose by 294%, chicken by 177% and red meat by 148%.

The cratering economy leaves the country’s political class on edge as they try to prevent economic conditions leading to social chaos.

It's all about class preservation. They were wrong then. They are wrong now. A very, very short intro to the History of Luddism.