Senior Iranian officials highlighted what they called intelligence successes and the urgency of backing armed groups against their arch-foe Israel on Wednesday, a day after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a defiant speech.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian denounced Israeli raids on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June as illegal and blasted European powers for triggering the return of UN sanctions in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.
Iran has begun rebuilding missile production facilities damaged in June’s 12-day war with Israel, but experts say a crucial element for solid-fuel production remains missing: planetary mixers, according to an Associated Press report analyzing satellite imagery.
The Israeli military said it uncovered a rocket in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Tuesday, the second such incident in recent weeks, in what security officials described as part of an Iranian-directed effort to develop rocket capabilities in the territory.
The Iranian rial fell sharply on Wednesday as markets braced for the reimposition of UN sanctions under the snapback mechanism, with the US dollar trading above 1,074,000 rials on the open market, more than 2% higher than a day earlier.
The looming revival of UN sanctions on Iran is unlikely to halt Tehran’s vital crude exports but could hand Chinese refiners a lucrative advantage, giving them greater access to discounted Iranian oil, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
A British couple held in Iran since January on espionage charges are due to appear in court on Saturday, their family said, expressing alarm at what they described as horrific conditions and repeated rights abuses.
Iran still has the capacity to advance its nuclear weapons program despite devastating US and Israeli airstrikes in June, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog said, as Tehran’s nuclear chief acknowledged that key facilities were “destroyed.”
Iran's push to modernize its oil industry through artificial intelligence and advanced drilling techniques faces daunting old obstacles from restricted access to technology to mounting financial constraints which have dogged exports for years.
Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of using new restrictions on its delegation to the United Nations as a tool of political pressure, after Washington limited Iranian diplomats’ movements in New York and denied visas to much of President Masoud Pezeshkian’s media team.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told Iran International on Tuesday there is no prospect of renewed war with Tehran in the near future after US and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities earlier this year.
In Tehran today, debate over Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s hardline stance on nuclear negotiations carries an unmistakable echo of the end of Iran’s eight-year war with Iraq in 1988.
Iran rejected a US offer of full cooperation in exchange for suspending its nuclear program, US President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, adding his letter to Iran's "so-called" Supreme Leader was met with threats.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Tuesday ruled out talks with United States, saying President Donald Trump's demand Tehran end domestic enrichment of uranium was an insult which had earned him a "slap in the face" from the Iranian people.
Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far this year or the most in over three decades, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR), which called for a United Nations investigation into what it described as crimes against humanity.
Iran and European powers held last-ditch talks in New York on Tuesday to try to prevent the revival of UN sanctions on Tehran, though diplomats on both sides cautioned that chances of success remain slim.
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani said on Tuesday that Tehran had accepted European and Russian proposals to avert the co-called snapback of UN sanctions, but the West triggered international sanctions on Iran nonetheless.
Officials in Tehran are scrambling to blunt the impact of impending UN sanctions later this month and avert another popular flare-up that even insiders warn is near.
Iran’s central bank governor Mohammadreza Farzin sought to reassure business leaders on Tuesday that the country’s foreign exchange and gold reserves remain secure as UN snapback sanctions loom later this month.
Russian MiG-29 fighter jets have arrived in Iran as part of a short-term plan to bolster its air force, with more advanced Sukhoi Su-35 aircraft to follow gradually, an Iranian lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Condom purchases in Iran jumped 26% during the country’s 12-day conflict with Israel in June, according to data from the country’s largest e-commerce platform Digikala.