Mideast Crisis

A senior Iranian lawmaker on Monday suggested Iran might use its military to seal the strategic Strait of Hormuz waterway as tensions continue over stalled nuclear talks following a 12-day conflict with Israel and the United States.

A joint American-Israeli plan to collapse Iran’s leadership within days of a surprise Israeli attack last month failed and only alienated the public, Iranian presidential aide Ali Rabiei said.

Iran’s communications ministry confirmed deliberate GPS jamming affecting millions of people in the wake of a war with Israel and said it is considering adopting China’s BeiDou in order to thwart drone and missile attacks.

Iran’s international air traffic has plunged to a fifth of pre-war levels, ten days after authorities reopened the country’s main airports following a ceasefire with Israel.

Iran will deliver a "proportionate and appropriate response" if European parties move to re-activate the UN snapback mechanism to reinstate international sanctions removed under the 2015 nuclear deal, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.

More than 400 senior clerics in Iran’s holy city of Qom have backed a religious decree labeling threats against Supreme Leader as “moharebeh” or “waging war against God,” a crime in Islamic law that can carry the death penalty.

Israel sought to bring about regime change in its 12-day war with Iran, but its failure to achieve that goal proves Tehran won the conflict, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday.

The Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee has approved the general provisions of a draft bill aimed at boosting the country’s armed forces against the Israeli threat, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday.

Iran has launched a wide-ranging investigation into Israel’s attempted assassination of President Masoud Pezeshkian, with suspicions of an inside agent, Al Jazeera reported, citing an unnamed senior Iranian official.

In spite of declaring last month’s 12-day war with Iran a “great victory”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tehran remains a threat to the Jewish state and the West under the current leadership.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sustained a leg injury following an Israeli airstrike on a meeting of Iran's Supreme National Security Council in the lower floors of a building in western Tehran on June 16, an IRGC-affiliated outlet reported.

An advisor to Iran's parliament speaker has shared an image that seems to show a nuclear attack on Israel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged Iranian officials to accept a nuclear agreement that would ban uranium enrichment, a key US demand in any future talks, Axios reported Saturday citing multiple sources.

A senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader said that Ali Khamenei triumphed over US President Donald Trump in a 12-day Israel-Iran war capped by US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, as officialdom doubles down on a victory narrative.

The Islamic Republic may have suffered a punishing blow in the recent 12-day war but has not backed down and may resort to assassinations, former White House official Michael Doran told Eye for Iran.

A June 23 Iranian missile attack caused damage deep inside a US airbase in Qatar, the Pentagon said on Friday, confirming an Iran International report citing satellite imagery which indicated a cutting-edge communications hub within the facility was destroyed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview that Israel had rolled back Iran's nuclear program but implied the Jewish state had not yet finished its confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

Eyewitnesses and local residents say a powerful explosion at a residential tower in western Tehran was not caused by a gas leak, contradicting official claims made by Iranian authorities.