A senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader said that Ali Khamenei triumphed over US President Donald Trump in a 12-day Israel-Iran war capped by US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, as officialdom doubles down on a victory narrative.
The Islamic Republic may have suffered a punishing blow in the recent 12-day war but has not backed down and may resort to assassinations, former White House official Michael Doran told Eye for Iran.
A June 23 Iranian missile attack caused damage deep inside a US airbase in Qatar, the Pentagon said on Friday, confirming an Iran International report citing satellite imagery which indicated a cutting-edge communications hub within the facility was destroyed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview that Israel had rolled back Iran's nuclear program but implied the Jewish state had not yet finished its confrontation with the Islamic Republic.
Eyewitnesses and local residents say a powerful explosion at a residential tower in western Tehran was not caused by a gas leak, contradicting official claims made by Iranian authorities.
Several homes damaged by Israeli strikes in a brief conflict last month will be turned into museums, Tehran’s mayor Alireza Zakani said.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday laughed off a threat by an Iranian official suggesting he could be attacked with drones while sunning himself at his Florida mansion, telling a bemused press corps he had not sunbathed since childhood.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Tehran was implacably opposed to the the United States and Israel and could not be coaxed into a deal in which it abandons nuclear and military ambitions.
A proposed Iranian law expanding espionage and national security charges and criminalizing ties with foreign entities has been halted for revision following a review by the country’s top oversight body.
An Iranian official said Donald Trump could face a drone attack while sunbathing at his Florida mansion, in the latest threat to his life after Iran was worsted in a 12-day war with Israel backed by the United States.
This is Tehran, two weeks after the ceasefire with Israel. Shops are open, people are out, the air is as polluted as ever—and the dread that began last month still hasn’t lifted.
The US President and Secretary of Defense said the military operation targeting three nuclear sites in Iran sent a strong message to the world, including US adversaries.
Iranian airstrikes last month hit several Israeli military sites, according to a Reuters report citing an Israeli military official — the first apparent public confirmation that such locations were struck.
According to latest data from the Israel Democracy Institute, nearly two thirds of Israelis said they felt the country had achieved its goals in the 12-day war on Iran.
Two seamen are believed to have been killed and another two missing after an attack on a Greek-managed cargo ship off the coast of Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthis, according to Reuters.
A media outlet affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has openly called for the mass execution of perceived enemies of the state, invoking the precedent of mass killings carried out in 1988 following a decree by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
In the last five years, Iran has stepped up its involvement in global terrorism, according to new research by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), an Israeli think-tank.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran has requested negotiations with Washington and expressed his willingness to lift sanctions “at the right time.”
Iran’s state TV reported that Tehran believes Israel seeks further attacks which Trump is unlikely to oppose, as US news outlet Axios cited sources saying Israel sees Trump backing strikes on further nuclear activities.
Israeli security services have arrested a Tel Aviv resident accused of being involved in an Iran-backed plot targeting the country’s politicians and military bases, as the number of cases continues to rise.
The Israeli military said on Monday it had detained members of an Iranian Quds Force cell — the foreign operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards — in Syria during an overnight raid, the second such operation in a week.
Persian Gulf states are quietly relieved that the 12-day war with Israel has weakened the Islamic Republic, security experts told Iran International, though Tehran's Arab rivals prefer a declawed Iran to a regime change that would lead to instability.