Iran’s intelligence ministry said it had struck positions of Kurdish fighters it accused of preparing to enter the country through its western borders, inflicting heavy losses on them, according to a statement carried by state media on Thursday.
US President Donald Trump says American munitions stockpiles remain robust while Iran is running out of key weapons and missile launchers amid continued US-Israeli airstrikes and Tehran's retaliatory attacks targeting regional countries.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson held a televised press conference on Tuesday from a Tehran classroom that state-linked media said had been damaged in recent strikes, as questions persist over the authorities’ use of civilian sites during wartime.
Iran made a strategic error by expanding its attacks beyond US and Israeli targets to include Persian Gulf states, a move that could pull more countries into the war, former CIA Director David Petraeus told Iran International in an interview on Monday.
The UN atomic watchdog said on Monday it has no indication that Iran’s nuclear facilities were damaged in recent military attacks, even as Tehran’s ambassador to the agency said the Natanz enrichment site was targeted a day earlier.
Israel and the United States have set no timeline for their joint military campaign against Iran, Israel’s foreign minister said on Sunday, describing the strikes that began on Saturday as an effort to weaken the country’s leadership.
The CIA helped identify a Saturday morning gathering of Iran’s top leaders in Tehran, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, before Israel carried out a strike that killed him and other senior officials, The New York Times reported.
Explosions were reported across parts of the Persian Gulf on Saturday after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched multiple waves of regional attacks, prompting several countries to activate air defense systems.
Israel, acting in coordination with the United States, launched strikes in Iran on Saturday, hitting multiple targets as explosions were reported in Tehran and other cities.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that American forces had begun “major combat operations” in Iran, launching what he described as a massive and ongoing campaign to eliminate nuclear and missile threats from the Iranian regime.
Senior Iranian clerics on Friday framed nuclear negotiations with Washington as conditional and cautioning that war remains an option if talks fail, as the United States and Britain began drawing down personnel in the region.
The real question is not whether the United States can destroy Iran’s capabilities, but whether it can end the Islamic Republic—and control what follows.
President Donald Trump will step into the House chamber on Tuesday night for a State of the Union address shadowed by the prospect of new US military action on Iran, as his administration sends envoys back to nuclear talks in Geneva and builds up forces in the region.
Iran has agreed a secret €500 million arms deal with Russia to acquire thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles in a major effort to rebuild air defenses damaged during last year’s war with Israel, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Two bipartisan lawmakers announced on Friday they oppose a congressional bid to limit the use of force against Iran, arguing the measure would constrain Washington’s ability to respond to what they described as an evolving threat from Tehran.
A man who says he was deployed during Tehran’s January crackdown describes watching protesters shot and helping load bodies into refrigerated trucks, including a little girl whose earrings had been taken before her body was thrown inside.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards carried out naval drills in and around the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday and said parts of the strategic waterway were closed for several hours, as Iran and the United States held indirect nuclear talks in Geneva.
Turkey’s foreign minister has warned that expanding nuclear talks with Iran to include its ballistic missile program and regional activities would risk triggering another war, even as Washington continues to press for a broader agreement.
Iran’s leadership is edging toward a war scenario not because diplomacy is necessarily collapsing, but because confrontation is increasingly seen as the least damaging option for a ruling system under intense internal and external pressure.
As Iran and the US convene in Oman for bilateral talks, reports suggest Muslim-majority states are pushing for a framework that would include a non-aggression pact, curbs on Iran’s nuclear program and its arms support for allied militants, and reassurances on its missiles.
Monday’s cautious optimism about renewed US–Iran diplomacy took several blows on Tuesday, as Tehran reportedly signaled fresh conditions for talks and Iranian and American forces clashed at sea.
Two explosions in southern Iran killed at least seven people and injured more than a dozen on Saturday, with officials blaming gas leaks, residents questioning the claim, and Israel denying any involvement.