Iran reopens central and western airspace for overflights

Foreign nationals legally residing in Iran should report anyone suspected of collaborating with Israel, Prosecutor General Mohammad Movahedi Azad said on Saturday, adding that those who come forward voluntarily may be granted “leniency.”

Movahedi Azad also urged undocumented foreign residents to leave the country promptly. “Those who remain illegally will face legal action,” he said.

Iranian officials and state media frequently use the term “foreign nationals” to refer to Afghan migrants.

Deputy Speaker of Iran’s parliament Hamidreza Haji-Babayi said on Saturday that Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and his inspectors would no longer be allowed access to Iranian nuclear sites.

“We saw our facility data in documents obtained from the fake Israeli regime,” Haji-Babayi said during a memorial event in Hamadan, accusing the IAEA of compromising Iranian security.

Iran has received intelligence suggesting that small drones entered its territory from neighboring countries during recent tensions, the country’s ambassador to Armenia said Saturday.

“We have received reports that some drones came into Iran from the direction of certain neighboring states,” Ambassador Mehdi Sobhani told reporters in Yerevan, in comments carried by Iranian media.

He said President Masoud Pezeshkian had asked his Azerbaijani counterpart in a recent phone call to conduct a “serious investigation” into the matter. Sobhani added that Iran is awaiting the outcome of that probe before deciding how to respond.

A senior Iranian lawmaker said Tehran accepted a halt to the war with Israel while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was “collapsing under Iran’s heavy strikes."

“It might have been better not to have agreed to stop the war so soon,” said Fada-Hossein Maleki, a member of parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, in an interview with Didban Iran. “When we accepted, Netanyahu’s government was under pressure.”

Maleki called the current arrangement a “pause in fighting,” not a lasting ceasefire, and warned it could break down. “This stop is itself part of the war process,” he said.

The US did not use bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s underground nuclear facility in Isfahan during last week’s military strikes because the site’s depth made the weapons ineffective, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told US lawmakers in a classified briefing, CNN reported Friday.

According to multiple sources familiar with the briefing, Caine said the Isfahan site, believed to house a significant portion of Iran’s enriched uranium, was targeted instead with Tomahawk missiles launched from a submarine. The facility’s deeply buried tunnels were not fully destroyed.

By contrast, US B-2 bombers dropped bunker-buster bombs on other nuclear facilities, including Fordow and Natanz.