A senior European diplomat said that Israel has already decided it will attack Iran’s nuclear sites, implying such an attack was not imminent, but also not in the distant future, Al Arabiya reported over the weekend. “We believe Israel has taken the decision to attack following the developments in the Middle East over the … Read more
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s top two judges and leading clerics were assassinated on Saturday, January 18 as gunmen stormed Supreme Court headquarters in the capital in Tehran. The attacker who brandished a handgun also shot one of the bodyguards of the clerics and subsequently shot himself dead at the incident scene. Mohammed Mogheiseh and … Read more
Footage claiming to show a secret Iranian underground naval base was made public by Tehran’s state television on Saturday – the second video the Islamic Republic has released of its arsenal ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. The footage was reportedly taken at the site located some 500m below an undisclosed location in … Read more
Two senior Iranian Supreme Court judges involved in handling espionage and terrorism cases were shot dead in the capital Tehran on Saturday, Iran’s judiciary said. It said the attacker killed himself after opening fire at the judges inside the Supreme Court, and that a bodyguard of one of the judges was wounded. The judiciary … Read more
Tehran: Iran announced that Mohammad Abedini, an Iranian national detained in Italy, has been released and returned home. Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei expressed satisfaction with Abedini’s release in a statement on Sunday, praising the efforts of all parties involved in securing his return, Xinhua news agency reported. Baghaei highlighted the ministry’s commitment to … Read more
Iran released footage unveiling the underground weapons storage facility it used in previous attacks against Israel, which it claims holds “new special missiles, Iranian semi-state official media site Tasnim reported at the end of December. Footage of the facility was later released on IRIB, displaying Tehran officials IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami and … Read more
The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being forced into marriage, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday. Most of the executions were for drug-related offenses, but political dissidents and … Read more
Exercises and military drills have doubled in Iran by the Islamic Republic’s armed forces, largely in preparation for the incoming Trump administration in nearly two weeks, as well as the military attacks it took from Israeli forces this year, IRGC Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini told the Financial Times in a report published on … Read more
Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the Italian ambassador on Friday over the detention of an Iranian national wanted by the United States for his alleged role in a deadly drone strike against US forces, Iranian state media reported. The summons came a day after a similar move by Italy over Iran’s arrest of Italian reporter … Read more
An Iranian delegation on board an Iranian Air Mahan flight that had landed in Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport from Tehran attempted to bar Lebanese security officials from searching the plane, according to the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar on Thursday. The publication added that the Beirut airport had been in a state of alert following … Read more
