Military

Iran on Thursday condemned Australia's listing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism, calling it a politically motivated and unjustified move.

A rocket strike on Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field late on Wednesday forced its closure and caused widespread power outages across the Kurdistan region, in an attack local officials cited by Reuters blamed on Iran-backed militias.

Senior Guards commanders cast the Revolutionary Guard's paramilitary Basij force as central to Iran’s response in June’s 12-day war with Israel and pressed for an expanded role for the force at home and in any future confrontation.

Israeli defense company Elbit Systems said its Hermes 900 drones helped locate dozens of concealed Iranian ballistic missile launchers during the June war between Israel and Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Australia on Thursday officially designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism after intelligence linked the group to attacks on Jewish centers in Sydney and Melbourne.

Sonic booms heard over Tehran on Tuesday were from Iranian MiG-29 on a routine training flight, the Air Force said, denying any Israeli incursion into the country's air space.

A Canadian federal judge has upheld an immigration officer’s decision to deny permanent residency to an Iranian asylum seeker because of his mandatory military service in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iranian scientists linked to the country’s defense establishment are marketing radiation-detection instruments that they say contain UK-made components from a supplier based in south London borough of Croydon, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Iran has appointed Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari as deputy commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, a top joint operational command that plans and coordinates the country’s armed forces, Iranian media reported on Monday.

Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, called for direct confrontation with Israel on Sunday after Hezbollah said a senior commander and four other members were killed in an Israeli strike near Beirut.

Iran denounced Israel’s strike in Beirut that killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, saying it breached the November 2024 ceasefire, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Sunday that Tehran had faced down the United States’ Central Command and NATO on its own in June’s 12-day war with Israel, describing the conflict as a strategic victory that forced its adversaries to seek a halt to fighting.

Brigadier General Ali Jahanshahi has been appointed commander of Iran’s Army Ground Forces, replacing Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, who held the post for more than seven years, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Friday that by the sixth day of a 12-day conflict with Israel, US vice president JD Vance was seeking talks to end the war.

A covert unit of cyber agents is at the forefront of Iranian efforts to surveil perceived enemies and was behind failed bids to kill Israelis in Turkey, leaked documents obtained by Iran International and an informed source revealed.

Iran has made significant investments to restore its ballistic missile capacity, increasing the likelihood of renewed war with Israel, i24 reported on Thursday, citing Western officials.

Iranian scientists linked to its defense establishment made a second covert trip to Russia last year as part of what the United States says is an effort to obtain dual-use technologies with potential nuclear weapons applications, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Google-owned security firm Mandiant reported on Tuesday that Iran-linked UNC1549 breached Middle East aerospace, aviation and defense organizations in a campaign from late 2023 to October 2025.