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Iran's currency, rial, reached another historic low on Saturday, breaking through the 650,000 threshold and dropping to 653,000 per US dollar, as tensions increased with Israel.

Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces in a speech on Saturday threatened the harshest possible response to Israel in retaliation for an airstrike on Iran's embassy in Syria.

A conservative newspaper in Tehran has questioned the government about why Russia's air defense, its ally, does not intervene to halt Israel's air strikes on Iranian targets in Syria.

In his first program following last week's stabbing attack, Iran International television host Pouria Zeraati expressed gratitude to Iranians and all those who condemned the incident.

Abram Paley, US Deputy Special Envoy for Iran held a meeting and discussions with UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Javaid Rehman regarding human rights abuses in Iran.

Following the recent air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, several Friday Imams in Iran called on the government to exercise caution and avoid rushing into retaliatory actions against Israel.

The United States is on high alert and preparing for a possible attack by Iran targeting Israeli or American assets in the region after Israel's strike on the Iranian embassy in Syria, a US official said on Friday.

Russia has found “a good opportunity in the Gaza war,” which has overshadowed the war in Ukraine, General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the top military advisor of Iran Supreme Leader, stated on Friday.

Iranians are expressing growing discontent with the government's annual Quds Day rallies, with many viewing them as irrelevant to their daily struggles and detrimental to regional peace.

The leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah of Lebanon voiced support for Iran's right to "punish" Israel over its Monday strike on Iran's consulate in the Syrian capital, saying the response was coming.

Veteran Israeli experts suggest that Iran is unlikely to retaliate directly against Israel for a surgical missile attack that killed two top IRGC generals and five additional officers in Damascus.

An Iranian official said on Friday that Washington had warned Tehran not to attack US facilities after Iran had told it not to fall into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "trap."

Israel’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria that killed two high-ranking generals occurred on the same day as the annual Persian New Years picnic celebration of Sizdah Be-dar – with some echoes of April Fools Day.

Despite protestations by Iranian democracy activists, the European Union has removed Iran’s censoring tech firm ArvanCloud from the list of human rights sanctions.

The chief commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami warned during his Friday Quds Day speech that no attack on “our sacred system [regime] will remain unanswered.”

Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen said on Thursday that just 37 people were killed and 30 wounded in 424 US and British airstrikes on their military sites involved in attacking ships in the Red Sea.

Iran held a funeral on Friday for seven Revolutionary Guards killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria earlier this week.

Border police in ex-Soviet Moldova said on Thursday they had found and cordoned off what appeared to be fragments of an Iranian-made Russian drone just inside the country's border with Ukraine.

World markets faced turbulence on Friday as tensions rose between Iran and Israel following a strike earlier in the week that killed seven IRGC personnel in the Iranian embassy in Syria.

Concerns regarding a potential Iranian attack on Israel reached their peak on Thursday, the eve of the last Friday of Ramadan, which Tehran has designated as Quds Day in solidarity with Palestinians.

In the wake of a spate of deadly militant attacks in southeastern Iran, criticism of the government's intelligence and security failures has intensified, labeling it a "paper tiger."