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A second night of apprehension in Tehran and Tel Aviv passed eventless Thursday, as the US and Britain vowed to back Israel in case of an Iranian retaliatory attack.

Mohammad Saeedi, the Friday Prayer Imam of Qom appointed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has cautioned against sowing discord among insider figures of the Islamic Republic.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu readied the country's air forces on Thursday as Iran continues to levy threats againsts the Jewish state in the wake of its airstrike on Iran's consulate in Syria last week.

On Thursday, Islamabad designated the Zainebiyoun Brigade, an Iran-backed Shiite militant group, as a terrorist organization.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for de-escalation in the region amid an Iran-led proxy war, in a call with his Iranian counterpart.

Russia has advised citizens not to travel to the Middle East as a regional proxy war orchestrated by Iran continues to escalate.

Recent statements from top clerics and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reflect their rising concerns about the weakening of their ideological control due to growing defiance against hijab.

Iran has threatened to target US forces in the Middle East if Washington helps Israel defend itself against any retaliatory Iranian action after its deadly airstrike in Damascus.

In response to the arrest of a Islamic scholar Sedigheh Vasmaghi, imprisoned for criticizing compulsory hijab laws and Iran's Supreme Leader, 320 Iranian political and civil activists have campaigned for her release.

Germany's Lufthansa extended a suspension of its flights to Tehran on Thursday with the Middle East on alert for Iranian retaliation for an Israeli air strike on Iran's consulate in Syria.

As calls to designate the IRGC grow, US lobbyists are pushing to ban Iran's foreign minister and delegation from the upcoming United Nations meeting on the Gaza war.

Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday called on Muslim countries to isolate Israel, seemingly taking advantage of rising concerns about a retaliatory attack by Tehran.

Iranian MP Mehdi Bagheri has warned that a travel ban is being considered as one of the penalties for defying compulsory hijab as crackdowns on the Islamic dress code continue.

Iranian dissident Hamed Esmaeilion urged travelers to cancel domestic and international flights from Iran fearing a repeat of the tragic 2020 IRGC downing of a Ukrainian airliner, killing all 176 crew and passengers.

Hours after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s threats about “punishing” Israel, Iranian lawmakers again called for retaliation against Israel’s airstrike on Iran’s Damascus consulate.

Top diplomats and generals across the Middle East were hustling Wednesday night to avert a regional conflagration, as Iran was said to be readying for a retaliatory strike on Israel.

Britain has taken “strongest” measures against those hired by Tehran to target Iranians on British soil, UK foreign secretary David Cameron said Wednesday in the first government reaction to the stabbing of Iran International's presenter Pouria Zeraati.

The verdict of Tuesday 9 April hearings of the Senate Banking Committee is simple: the Biden administration has failed to plug a yawning gap in its vast sanction regime: the abuse of cryptocurrency by the Iranian proxies’ crime nexus.

German airlines Lufthansa has suspended flights to and from Tehran for 24 hours amid concerns of a potential military escalation, the company told Iran International.

American and Israeli sources were quoted as saying on Wednesday that a major Iranian missile and drone attack against Israel is imminent in the coming days, after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called for retaliation.

Unnamed American and Israeli officials have said that a major missile or drone attack by Iran or its proxies on Israel seems imminent in the coming days, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.