Russian President Vladimir Putin personally gave the green light for Israeli airstrikes in Syria against Iranian arms transfers to Lebanon's Hezbollah during Bashar al-Assad’s rule, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen reveals in his new memoir Sword of Freedom.
Iran carried out missile tests around the capital Tehran on Thursday evening local time, a local official confirmed. A Revolutionary Guards-linked outlet and eyewitnesses reported images and video of the test on social media.
Authorities in Tehran have shut down two cafe-restaurants over alleged violations including “serving alcohol, nudity, and mixed-gender dancing,” Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Fars news agency reported on Thursday.
Snapback sanctions on Iran will be triggered at the end of this month, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday.
European states at the center of a sanctions drama with Tehran due for a finale next month deemed an Iranian proposal to gain a reprieve insufficient and overly demanding, a Wall Street Journal reporter said on Thursday.
A senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Thursday the country remained under attack in a “hybrid war” waged by the United States and Israel, even after the end of their 12-day military confrontation in June.
The head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, says there are still capabilities buried within Tehran, ready to be activated while Iran continues to hunt down suspects.
Russia took firm positions during the 12-day war with Israel, Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Abdolrahim Mousavi said in a meeting with Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev in Tehran on Wednesday.
France has selected Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, as its submission for the Academy Awards in the international feature category, giving the exiled filmmaker a path to Hollywood that Tehran was unlikely to offer.
Pentagon budget documents seeking urgent new funding show that the US has fired around $500 million worth of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor missiles to defend Israel, primarily during its June war with Iran.
Iran-aligned media and online networks joined Russia- and China-linked actors in pushing false or inflammatory narratives after US conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead earlier this month according to US officials and outside researchers.
Below is the full text of an editorial penned by Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammedi for Iran International on the occasion of the third anniversary of Mahsa "Jina" Amini's death in morality police custody:
Three years after the death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody and subsequent protests which were quashed with deadly force, the mood among Iranians has only darkened, with many pointing to hardships that increasingly shape daily life.
Fifty Senate Republicans wrote to the foreign ministers of the UK, France and Germany, urging them to press ahead with the reinstatement of United Nations sanctions on Iran, Jewish Insider reported on Wednesday.
The United States on Wednesday designated four Iran-aligned militias as foreign terrorist organizations, a statement by Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
European foreign ministers on Wednesday urged Iran to resume nuclear talks, allow inspections of sensitive sites and curb its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, warning that sanctions suspended under the 2015 deal would be reimposed if Tehran fails to act in the coming days.
An Iranian court has sentenced Reza Seghati, the former head of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Gilan province, to 100 lashes and exile in connection with a widely publicized same-sex scandal that cost him his post.
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’s foreign ministry spokesman on Wednesday said Washington had no right to criticize Tehran’s missile program, accusing the United States of blocking prospects for nuclear negotiations by insisting on restrictions that Iran calls non-negotiable.
Israel’s recent strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar could undermine fragile efforts toward ending a nearly two-year-old war in Gaza, South Dakota Republican Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) told Iran International.
Iran executed political prisoner Babak Shahbazi on Wednesday, state-affiliated media reported, saying he had been convicted of spying for Israel.
Iran condemned the United States on Tuesday for what it called “hypocritical and deceitful” remarks on the anniversary of a young Iranian woman's death in morality police custody in 2022, accusing Washington of decades of crimes and subversion.