Iran has asked Belarus for assistance in restoring its damaged air defense and electronic warfare systems following the June conflict with Israel, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service said.
Amnesty International accused Iranian authorities on Friday of “destroying vital evidence” of crimes against humanity by converting a section of Tehran’s main cemetery containing graves of executed dissidents into a parking lot.
The Pentagon dismissed its intelligence chief after his office said June airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites only modestly set back the program, contradicting President Donald Trump’s statement that it had been “obliterated,” officials said Friday.
A Lebanese opposition figure has urged his government to expel Iran’s envoy in Beirut after senior Iranian official Ali Larijani reaffirmed Tehran’s backing for Hezbollah, deepening the controversy over Iran’s role in Lebanon.
Iran has established arms production facilities in several countries but will not disclose their names for now, Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said in a televised interview Friday night.
Iran and Russia have stepped up coordination as European powers threaten to trigger the reimposition of UN sanctions on Tehran, officials said on Friday, days before an end-August deadline to activate the snapback mechanism.
Stanford professor and historian Abbas Milani says the Islamic Republic's real opposition is not abroad but inside the country: women walking unveiled, teachers refusing propaganda, and artists reimagining history.
Friday’s talks between Iran and European powers made no progress, Axios and the Wall Street Journal reported, as a deadline looms for the reimposition of UN sanctions on Tehran under the so-called snapback mechanism.
A conservative daily in Tehran has accused the Taliban of deliberately withholding water to pressure Iran, urging the government to use diplomatic, economic and other tools to punish the group.
Iran must remain prepared for a fresh round of conflict as the war with Israel is not over, the Islamic Republic's top security official Ali Larijani said two months after a US-brokered ceasefire put an end to a 12-day war between Iran and Israel.
The United States Air Force is seeking information to acquire copies of Iran’s Shahed-136 drone for study and training purposes, a report by the Pentagon-owned newspaper Stars and Stripes said.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Belarus this week, a heavily sanctioned Russian ally, in a trip that highlighted how Tehran’s “Look East” strategy ties it more closely to Moscow and Beijing and their sanctioned partners.
Germany’s ambassador to Iran Markus Potzel announced he is ending his mission in Tehran for "personal reasons," and that the visa section is now operating at reduced capacity.
Iran and three European powers will resume nuclear talks on Tuesday, Iran’s foreign minister said, following a phone call with his counterparts from Britain, France and Germany as well as the European Union’s foreign policy chief.
Ahmad Khatami, Tehran’s interim Friday prayer leader and a representative of the Supreme Leader, criticized the Reform Front’s recent manifesto, saying its proposal for suspending uranium enrichment mirrored US demands.
Unidentified gunmen attacked two police patrol units near Iranshahr in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province on Friday, killing five officers, according to state media.
A senior Iranian diplomat warned Europe that triggering the UN’s “snapback” mechanism to restore sanctions would squander its leverage and harden Tehran’s nuclear stance.
Iran temporarily closed large sections of its western airspace early on Friday to allow military drills, before restoring flights several hours later, local media reported.
A prominent Iranian conservative figure alleged that Israel seeks to orchestrate leadership change in Tehran by assassinating members of the Assembly of Experts to pave the way for former president Hassan Rouhani, Iranian media reported on Thursday.
A hacker group said it disabled communications on more than 60 Iranian oil tankers and cargo ships, severing links between the vessels, their ports, and the outside world in one of the largest cyberattacks on the country’s maritime sector.
The Karun River, the longest and only navigable river in Iran, is under severe strain from drought, reduced flow, chemical pollution, and wetland degradation, according to experts.