Iran is isolated and under pressure but its robust counterattacks in a 12-day war with Israel may embolden it to fight another more deadly conflict, author and former Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren told Eye for Iran.
Hooshmand Ramezanipour spoke softly from a refugee camp in Serbia, his voice low and cautious. “There are smugglers here,” he said. “To be honest, I have died and been resurrected many times — both inside Iran and here.”
Iran is the last obstacle to a new Middle East, US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said on Monday, calling for Syria’s reintegration and Lebanon’s break from Tehran-backed Hezbollah to secure what he called “a generation of cooperation.”
Israeli diplomats have been added to WhatsApp groups allegedly operated from Iran as the cyber war between the two countries continues, Israeli media reported on Monday.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad Pakpour, offered condolences over the killing of Yemeni Houthi military chief Mohammed Abdul Karim al-Ghamari in an Israeli strike and pledged to deepen ties with the Iran-aligned group.
Iran executed a man on Saturday convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, the judiciary said on Sunday, the second such execution reported in less than a month.
Iranian Vice Speaker of Parliament Hamidreza Hajibabaei called on Muslim countries’ parliaments to pass binding laws imposing a complete economic, trade, and political boycott of Israel during a speech at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Geneva.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has denounced the display of a drone in the British Parliament allegedly linked to Tehran, calling it “a pathetic show” staged by the Israeli lobby and its backers.
A new and far deadlier conflict between Israel and Iran looms, former Israeli intelligence official Danny Citrinowicz told Eye for Iran, warning that Tehran has learned from past clashes and is rapidly improving its missile capabilities.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin a week after the Russian leader said Israel requested he convey to Iran its desire to avoid confrontation.
US President Donald Trump appeared to suggest in a passing remark during a speech before Israel's Knesset on Monday that his son-in-law Jared Kushner could lead US diplomacy with Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he resisted international pressure to halt the war in Gaza because Israel’s security depended on removing the threat from Iran and its armed allies.
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said on Wednesday that it thwarted an Iranian operation to move a large cache of advanced weaponry into the occupied West Bank for planned attacks on Israeli targets.
Two years after Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, Daniel Lifshitz believes the tragedy that shattered his family was aided by Iran but insists peace, not vengeance, must define the future.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran is developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, warning that Tehran’s expanding weapons program poses a global security threat.
Israeli financial daily Calcalist reported that Iran has possessed American stealth drone technology since 2011 and has since produced at least five radar-evading unmanned aerial vehicles.
An Israeli court on Friday indicted an Israeli army reserve soldier on charges of spying for Tehran, in the latest case of alleged espionage attributed to arch-foe Iran, which authorities say tasked him with killing his commanding officer.
Iran’s Guardian Council on Wednesday approved a bill imposing harsher penalties for espionage and collaboration with Israel, the United States and other “hostile states,” clearing the way for the law to be enacted once signed by President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Iranian operatives posing as the manager of an Israeli rapper attempted to lure the 17-year-old daughter of firebrand National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir into an online meeting, Israel's security agency said.
A relative of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons - Israelis abducted by Tehran-backed Hamas militants on October 7 2023 and eventually killed - filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing Iran of genocide for its alleged role.
Israel is on heightened alert after the United Nations reinstated sanctions on Iran under the snapback mechanism, amid fears in Jerusalem that Tehran could accelerate its nuclear activities, Ynet reported on Sunday.
Iran’s intelligence ministry aired a segment on national TV displaying information and documents that it says it obtained from Israel’s intelligence apparatus on the Jewish state's nuclear program