The Iran-backed armed Houthi group in Yemen is holding back on missile attacks on Israel and are instead launching more drones as smuggling of vital parts from Tehran dwindles amid seizures at sea, security analysts told Iran International.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s newly appointed security chief, courted controversy on Monday by suggesting Americans could be driven to suicide when hearing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describe Israel as a bulwark of American civilization.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Israel’s September 9 strike on Hamas leaders in Doha amounted to terrorism and warned that no Arab or Muslim capital is safe from future attacks.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told reporters in Jerusalem that their surprise attacks on Iranian nuclear sites in June helped save the West from attack.
Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami told the International Atomic Energy Agency’s annual general conference in Vienna on Monday that Tehran’s atomic program will not be destroyed by military operations, accusing Israel and the United States of illegal strikes on its facilities.
Israel’s Mossad has sufficient knowledge of the location of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpiles and could intervene if Tehran attempts to use them, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday citing unnamed sources.
An ultra-orthodox Jew from the religious suburb of Beit Shemesh was convicted at the Jerusalem District Court of carrying out missions for Iranian officials during the 12-day war in June.
Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami departed for Vienna to attend the IAEA’s annual general conference, saying Tehran would push for a ban on attacks against atomic facilities, as the Supreme National Security Council outlined strict conditions on future inspections.
Senior Iranian officials are using the recent Israeli attacks on Doha to justify calls for the formation of a unified military front among Muslim nations as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) gathers for an emergency summit in Qatar on Monday.
A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader warned on Saturday that Azerbaijan would damage the image of Shiites if it proceeds with plans to host a major rabbinical meeting.
The United States Air Force has ordered a batch of cutting-edge new bunker buster bombs, Defense News reported this week, reaching for the successor technology to huge ordnance which pounded Iranian nuclear sites in June.
The Israeli military on Friday said commando raids into Syria earlier this year had detained operatives directed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to smuggle weapons into the occupied West Bank and northern Israel.
More than any other act in the post-October 7, 2023 world, the Israeli airstrike on a busy residential neighborhood of Doha on Tuesday has the potential to upend prevailing assumptions on Persian Gulf security.
Dozens of Israeli actors were targeted in a phishing attack believed to have originated from Iran, Israel's National Cyber Directorate said on Friday.
An Iranian lawmaker suggested on Thursday that Qatar expel US forces and allow Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to deploy missiles on its territory to counter Israel.
Israel’s comptroller published a report on Wednesday outlining a series of government shortcomings in responding to civilian needs during the 12-day war with Iran and called for fixing gaps in emergency response.
The threat from Iran and its regional allies has sharply increased in recent year, senior officials in Jordan told Iran International, in a setback to decades of stability in the Western-allied kingdom.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic abducted in Baghdad in March 2023, was freed this week in what Iran’s Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Tasnim described as a prisoner exchange.
Israel’s strike in Doha targeting senior Hamas leaders has given Tehran a chance to present itself as the true defender of Arab sovereignty and Palestinian resistance.
Iran’s military on Wednesday accused the United States of involvement in an Israeli attack on Hamas in Qatar the previous day despite public denials by its two foes.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday that its new deal with Iran covers inspections at all of the country’s declared nuclear sites, including those hit by Israeli and US strikes in June, in what he called a step in the right direction toward restoring safeguards.
Tuesday’s strike on the leadership of the Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas in Doha aims to intimidate Tehran but also sows unease among Arab states, Israeli and American experts told Iran International.