Mideast Crisis

Iran-backed Hezbollah is rebuilding its weapons and ranks, defying a cease-fire deal and risking renewed conflict with Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with Israeli and Arab intelligence.

Iran-bound Chinese shipments of sodium perchlorate, a key ingredient in ballistic missile fuel, have ramped up in recent weeks according to European intelligence sources cited by CNN on Wednesday.

Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani on Tuesday endorsed a defense pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, calling for unity among Muslim countries in the face of what he described as common regional threats.

Iran has issued an indictment in the case of a container ship seized by its Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz last year, judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said on Tuesday, according to state media.

Despite the Gaza ceasefire, Iran is expected to maintain its regional strategy and support for its Palestinian ally Hamas, a think tank closely affiliated with the Israeli military said in a report on Monday.

Israel’s October 2024 airstrikes on Iran gave it the operational edge for June’s attacks, the Jewish State's military said on Sunday, marking the anniversary of strikes that reportedly destroyed Iran’s remaining Russian-provided S-300 air defense systems.

Three Turkish nationals have been charged in Israel with attempting to smuggle firearms into the country from Iran through Jordan, in what prosecutors describe as part of a wider Iranian effort to arm militants inside Israel.

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.

The US ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday urged Iran to abandon its revolutionary ambitions and end what he called destructive interference in neighboring Mideast states.

Iran's security chief Ali Larijani on Thursday launched into a withering critique of Donald Trump, likening the US President to Hitler and tarring him as a "mere businessman" whose Gaza peace summit Tehran gladly missed.

An Iranian nuclear engineer employed at the Natanz nuclear facilities was executed in Qom last week after being convicted of spying for Israel, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.

Iranian intelligence minister said on Wednesday that the US President Donald Trump's so-called peace through strength policy seeks to pressure Iran into submission, marking another defiant comment leveled at Tehran's perceived nemesis in recent days.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Baghdad to swiftly disarm Iran-backed militias in a phone call with Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday, accusing the Shi'ite groups of diverting the Arab nation’s resources to Tehran’s benefit.

The return of UN sanctions has deepened Tehran’s isolation and tested Beijing’s pragmatic balancing act in a region shaken by Donald Trump’s new peace plan and the 12-day war between Iran and Israel.

US Vice-President JD Vance said on Tuesday that the United States is committed to diplomacy for the foreseeable future as its strategy to deprive Iran of nuclear weapons.

Tehran’s behavior after the June war with Israel reflects a state of suspended decision-making—a fragile equilibrium that may nevertheless endure, sustained by continuing control and the absence of any obvious alternatives.

Iran would unleash a devastating response to any assault on its territory, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad Pakpour, said on Tuesday.

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.”