Tehran is making a “total miscalculation” if it believes the US midterm elections will constrain President Donald Trump’s actions against Iran, former senior US official Morgan Ortagus told Iran International.
Tehran is signalling that its response to US pressure may be to widen the conflict, turning restrictions on its shipping and aviation into risks for airports and waterways stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and potentially the Indian Ocean.
US President Donald Trump weighed military action, economic pressure and a possible deal with Iran, while Iranian leaders paired diplomatic overtures with warnings over the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.
Iran has conveyed seven conditions to Washington for the start of any negotiations, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said Saturday, as President Donald Trump weighs whether to resume major attacks on Iran.
A newly disclosed US operation that sent more than 90 American troops into Iran to rescue an airman shot down during the war drew ridicule from Iranians online over the Revolutionary Guards’ failure to find him before his extraction in April.
Foreign investment in Iran has effectively come to a halt following the war with Israel and the United States, with no new foreign investment recorded so far this Iranian year, a senior industry ministry figure said.
Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups denied responsibility on Saturday for the drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, rejecting an accusation that has already prompted Baghdad to dismiss a military commander and close border crossings with Iran.
Heavy fighting between Iranian security forces and unidentified gunmen spread across parts of Saravan in southeastern Iran on Saturday, with reports of attacks on military vehicles and dozens of security personnel killed or wounded, the rights group Haalvsh reported.
Israel will settle for nothing short of the collapse of the Islamic Republic, its ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter told Iran International.
Russia could help sustain Yemen’s Houthis if Iran’s ability to support the group is weakened, providing a lifeline as the group expands its reach around a second crucial Middle Eastern shipping route, according to Anna Borshchevskaya, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute.
Hardliners in Tehran are pressing for further military and nuclear escalation despite mounting economic pressure and a widening confrontation with the United States. Is it a reckless gamble, or a realistic response to Iran’s dwindling options?
Iranian missiles damaged several American military aircraft at a base in Jordan this week, a US official told Reuters, underscoring the continuing ability of Iranian strikes to penetrate US defenses after more than six months of war.
Tehran’s governor has called for schools used by other state bodies to be returned before students begin the new academic year, months after military and security forces deployed at schools during the US-Israeli war.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday as the US-Iran conflict widened across the region, while senior White House advisers reportedly warned President Donald Trump that the war could continue beyond the end of his term in January 2029.
An Iraqi commander of an Iran-backed militia who allegedly plotted attacks against Jewish targets in Europe and North America applied three times to visit Singapore, the city-state’s Internal Security Department said.
Iranian authorities are holding back from enforcing mandatory hijab as extensively as they would like because of “war conditions,” a senior official said Wednesday, even as pressure grows for tougher enforcement.
A US cruise missile strike on a railway bridge 700 miles from the war's main front has a puzzle at its center: Iranian media said it hit the China corridor, Iran's own figures say the line is minor and points at Russia, and Washington has not said why.
The escalating battle between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis may be a test of what remains of Tehran’s Axis of Resistance after months of war and mounting pressure on Iran itself.
The United States conducted a covert four-month operation to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz, deploying Navy SEAL divers, robotic boats and specialized underwater craft mostly at night, the Financial Times reported.
US forces struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday, including two near Iran’s coast and one off Kharg Island deep in the western Persian Gulf, roughly 300 miles northwest of Hormuz, a few days after similar attacks on two NITC tankers off Jask.
Even the possibility that Iran could put mines into one of the world’s most important shipping routes can deter commercial traffic and force the US military to maintain constant surveillance, former CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel told Iran International.
The United States is investigating whether its forces were responsible for a deadly strike on a wedding in southern Iran, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday, as evidence emerged suggesting the building may have been directly hit by a US munition.