Tehran prosecutor says 583 economic crime cases under review

Iran said on Tuesday that it had already prepared alternative routes and measures to deal with the US naval blockade.

“Regarding the naval blockade, the government has already designed alternative routes, and there is no problem in this regard,” government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said.

She also said one of the problems in negotiations was “contradictory” messaging from the other side, adding that Iran was in a strong diplomatic and military position.

Iran executed a man on Tuesday on accusations of spying for Israel, IRGC-linked Tasnim News reported on Tuesday.

The sentence for Gholamreza Khani Shekarab had been upheld by the country's Supreme Court before being carried out, according to the report.

His execution was carried out only hours after the death sentence was announced.

Iran’s internet blackout entered its 88th day on Tuesday, passing 2,088 hours of isolation from the global internet, internet monitor NetBlocks said.

“Metrics confirm the shutdown currently remains in effect despite the president's order yesterday to restore access,” it added.

The Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that its air defense units shot down a US MQ-9 drone over the Persian Gulf after what it described as “precise intelligence monitoring.”

An RQ-4 drone and an F-35 fighter jet were also forced to flee Iranian airspace after Revolutionary Guards air defenses opened fire, said the statement.

The Guards warned against any violation of the ceasefire by the US military and said it considers its right to retaliate “legitimate and decisive.”

Mojtaba Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s third Supreme Leader, said in a message published Tuesday for the Hajj pilgrimage that Israel would not exist within the next 15 years.

No image or audio recording of Mojtaba Khamenei has been released since his appointment as supreme leader.

The message, published by Iranian media, referred to remarks made a decade ago by Ali Khamenei, the slain former supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, who said Israel would “not see the next 25 years.”

Describing Israel as an “unstable Zionist regime” and a “cancerous tumor,” the message said it was “approaching the final stages of its cursed existence.”