The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned Israel on Thursday against attacking the Islamic Republic in retaliation for a missile barrage, as the Israeli military stepped up its offensive in Lebanon against Tehran-backed Hezbollah. Fears of a wider Middle East conflict have grown as Israel plans its response to the Oct. 1 missile attack … Read more
Tehran sought international support against Israel as the region remained braced for an IDF retaliatory strike on Iran and the US issued sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s energy trade. Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi “underscored the need for collective diplomatic efforts to halt the Zionist regime’s aggressions and crimes,” in a letter he … Read more
The sound of the explosion heard at midnight was due to seeing a luminous object and the test activity of the defense system,” the Public Relations Department of the Saheb al-Zaman Headquarters said in a statement on Tuesday. It added that claims saying that the sound was due to a military exercise or enemy … Read more
Iran has warned that any Israeli attack on Israel will be met with “stronger and harsher” responses. This comes in the wake of the October 1 Iranian attack on Israel with 181 ballistic missiles. Iran has been seeking to prevent an Israeli retaliation, at least any kind of retaliation that would be large or … Read more
Iran’s Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad landed on Kharg island, the oil ministry’s news website Shana reported on Sunday, amid concerns that Israel could target Iran’s largest oil terminal there. An Israeli military spokesman said on Saturday that Israel would retaliate, following last week’s missile attack by Tehran, “when the time is right.” Following Iran’s … Read more
Israel has not yet pledged to the Biden administration that it would not target Iranian nuclear facilities in response to Tuesday’s ballistic missile attack, a US State Department official told CNN on Friday. This official told CNN that it was difficult to assess when Israel would retaliate but estimated that a counter-strike would likely occur … Read more
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak claimed that Israel was likely to attack Iran’s oil industry as a symbolic retaliation to Tehran’s Tuesday aerial attack, the Guardian reported on Friday. “Israel has a compelling need, even an imperative, to respond. I think that no sovereign nation on Earth could fail to respond,” Barak said … Read more
Iran lashed out at the United States and Europe Wednesday as Israel looked to retaliate against the Islamic Republic for its missile attack and the region braced for the possibility of a third confrontation between the two arch-foes. “In our region, the root cause of problems, which leads to conflicts, wars, concerns and hostilities … Read more
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqhchi spoke with his counterpart in Venezuela over the weekend. In the call, he “said that his country has a strategic view on Latin American nations, particularly Venezuela, stressing that the new Iranian administration will continue that approach,” according to the Iranian statement media IRNA. This is part of a … Read more
Very large amounts of Iranian academic research have been refocused to advancing issues relevant to nuclear bomb detonation, the Institute for Science and International Security’s president David Albright told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. This is a potentially radical paradigm shift in how close a real Iran nuclear weapons threat could become, given that … Read more
