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As the new US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth takes office, Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz sent a note of congratulations, saying Iran remains a multidimensional threat in spite of Israel's weakening of Tehran's military allies.
Reviving the so-called maximum pressure campaign on Iran will likely define US President Donald Trump’s strategy toward Washington's arch-foe in the Middle East from day one, Middle East policy expert Patrick Clawson told Iran International.
The resignation of Israel’s military chief has drawn reactions from senior leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who framed it as a weakening of the Israeli government after October 7.
Iran is taking advantage of the ruling Palestinian Authority's lack of political legitimacy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to arm militants, the director of a leading research center in Ramallah told Iran International.
Iran has not been weakened by over a year of Mideast combat with Israel, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in some of his first remarks after Donald Trump returned to the White House, daring so-called enemies to test Tehran's mettle.
Days after the ceasefire in Gaza, Israel launched a major operation in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday to quash what it described as Iranian-backed terrorist groups in Jenin.
Israel has denied a Channel 12 report claiming the Prime Minister is seeking US President Donald Trump’s support for a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites and normalization with Saudi Arabia before advancing the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire.
Iranian officials, during the commemoration of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, doubled down on their support for the group amid escalating pressures from the US and Israel.
Hezbollah's war damage compensation for citizens displaced by the group's conflict with Israel, funded by Iran, are being postponed, according to a letter from a Lebanese micro-finance institution.
An Iranian-linked cyberattack targeted kindergartens in Israel on Sunday, disrupting public address (PA) systems and infiltrating emergency systems in at least 20 locations by exploiting vulnerabilities in a private company's infrastructure.
Iraq will not be negatively impacted by Iran's declining regional influence, Iraq's deputy parliament speaker has said as Baghdad pursues an independent diplomatic course and seeks to curb the power of armed groups.
Israel’s president and Iran’s vice president exchanged sharp words this week at Davos, with Isaac Herzog dismissing Mohammad Javad Zarif as powerless, prompting a fiery response in which the Iranian official called Herzog a “nobody.”
US President Donald Trump is set to list Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), Al-Arabiya English reported citing officials familiar with the matter.