Iran’s underground missile and ammunition facilities withstood the 12-day conflict and US strikes thanks to two decades of hardening and design, said Iran’s passive defense chief in an interview with the Story of the War podcast on Saturday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the country’s missile program has advanced significantly since the 12-day war with Israel, describing the gains as a major leap in capability while declining to disclose new details about its weapons development.
The United States is seeking to exploit what it sees as a rare opportunity in Lebanon to choke off Iranian funding to Hezbollah and press the group to disarm, a senior Treasury official said, as Washington steps up efforts to contain Tehran’s regional influence.
Washington has warned Baghdad that it will not recognize Iraq’s next government if any ministries are handed to armed factions linked to the Islamic Republic, a source in Iraq’s Kurdistan region told Iran International on Friday.
Iran has approached Washington to ask whether US sanctions could be lifted, US President Donald Trump told the leaders of the C5+1 Central Asian countries at the White House on Thursday.
Australia’s Parliament has passed a law allowing the government to list foreign state entities such as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as sponsors of terrorism, after intelligence linked the group to antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that Tehran's current missile power exceeds levels before a 12-day war with Israel in June and that its arch-foe was defeated in the conflict.
Iran is supplying Shi’ite militias in Iraq with more advanced weapons in preparation for a possible new round of fighting with Israel, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.
Iran’s armed forces said on Tuesday that any public remarks about the country’s military or defense cooperation with other nations are invalid unless confirmed by its headquarters, state media reported.
The spokesman for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the country’s adversaries are not in a position to launch another war, arguing that their initial objectives of regime change and territorial disintegration have already failed.
US President Donald Trump said his approach to Iran is central to securing broader Middle East stability, repeating that US military action had removed Tehran’s nuclear capability and hinting that an agreement with the Islamic Republic could pave the way for regional diplomacy.
Iranian media reported that a security officer was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the southeastern city of Iranshahr.
Iran is determined to rebuild its nuclear facilities, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday, stressing that the country’s program is peaceful and not aimed at a bomb.
Former Iranian official Mohammad‑Javad Larijani said his country has developed a new theoretical doctrine: one in which a state capable of building a nuclear bomb in under two weeks chooses not to do so.
Tehran seeks peace but will deliver a decisive response if attacked, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said in an interview with CTV Belarus on the sidelines of the Eurasian Security Conference in Minsk, according to Iranian media.
Venezuela is seeking military help from Russia, China and Iran — from drone technology to missile support — as it faces a rising US military buildup in the Caribbean, according to internal US documents reported by The Washington Post.
Two members of the Revolutionary Guard’s Basij paramilitary forces were killed in an armed attack on the Khash–Zahedan road, local authorities announced on Saturday, in the latest of a series of clashes with Sunni militants in Iran’s restive southeast.
A military court in Iran's Hamedan has upheld a ruling that drops all charges against three Revolutionary Guard officers accused of killing two young men during a checkpoint incident in July, according to a document obtained by Iran International.
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’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary was challenged over his interpretation of a study by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America on the June 2025 Israel-Iran conflict, after he cited the report in remarks posted on X last week.
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.
US forces destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability and prevented it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday while addressing US troops aboard an aircraft carrier in Japan.