Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, said on Wednesday that Tehran’s defensive preparations had deterred enemies from launching a fresh assault, after visiting a tactical headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ ground force.
Iran rejected references to a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the final communique of the Arab-Islamic emergency summit in Doha, saying the approach would not resolve the issue and accusing US policies of sustaining Israeli aggression.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s newly appointed security chief, courted controversy on Monday by suggesting Americans could be driven to suicide when hearing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describe Israel as a bulwark of American civilization.
Israel’s Mossad has sufficient knowledge of the location of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpiles and could intervene if Tehran attempts to use them, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday citing unnamed sources.
An ultra-orthodox Jew from the religious suburb of Beit Shemesh was convicted at the Jerusalem District Court of carrying out missions for Iranian officials during the 12-day war in June.
A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader warned on Saturday that Azerbaijan would damage the image of Shiites if it proceeds with plans to host a major rabbinical meeting.
Dozens of Israeli actors were targeted in a phishing attack believed to have originated from Iran, Israel's National Cyber Directorate said on Friday.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic abducted in Baghdad in March 2023, was freed this week in what Iran’s Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Tasnim described as a prisoner exchange.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, reacted to Israel’s strike on Qatar with a pointed message in Arabic on social media, casting the attack as a signal of Israel’s future ambitions for regional dominance.
Nearly 22,000 Iranian gas centrifuges at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan were knocked out in June strikes, leaving “no identifiable route” to weapon-grade output at those plants, the Institute for Science and International Security said citing the UN nuclear watchdog’s latest reports.
Hamzeh Safavi, son of Yahya Rahim-Safavi, a senior military adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said Iran must be prepared for the possibility that Israel could attempt to assassinate the country’s top leader.
A drone fired by Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthi rebels struck the arrivals hall of Israel’s Ramon International Airport near the southern city of Eilat on Sunday, injuring one person and forcing a two-hour suspension of flights, Israeli authorities said.
Iran’s parliament security and foreign policy committee has approved a bill to strengthen the armed forces against Israel, mandating billions in funding from oil revenues, frozen foreign assets and air transit fees, its spokesperson said on Sunday.
Israel’s former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said he had drawn up plans to assassinate Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, but the idea was abandoned over fears it would trigger a war with Tehran. Soleimani was later killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in 2020.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has denied reports quoting him as saying the likelihood of fresh conflict with Israel was “very high,” the ISNA news agency reported on Friday.
A senior Iranian lawmaker said on Monday that Israeli drones entered Iran’s airspace from neighboring Azerbaijan during the recent 12-day conflict with Israel, reviving tensions between Tehran and Baku over alleged cooperation with Israel.
Iran said the Israeli airstrike that killed Houthi Prime Minister Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi and several cabinet members in Sanaa would draw a response from its regional allies, calling the attack a war crime aimed at silencing Yemen’s support for Gaza.
Iran has launched a clean-up operation at a nuclear-related site in northern Tehran that was struck by Israeli airstrikes in June, in a move that will likely remove evidence of any past nuclear weapons development work, a research group said on Wednesday.
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.
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.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that US President Donald Trump acted in a judicious way in ordering attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June.
The US State Department has dismissed an Iranian-American press officer after internal disputes over how to characterize Israeli policies in Gaza, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing US officials and documents it reviewed.