Despite ongoing U.S.-Israeli strikes against its launch capabilities and claims from Washington and Tel Aviv that its offensive capacity is being rapidly reduced, Iran was still firing missiles and dozens of drones at U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf on Friday. Sirens reportedly sounded in Kuwait City hours after the Iranian Army claimed to be…
US president Donald Trump has announced the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei after joint US-Israeli air strikes hit his compound on Saturday. Trump said Khamenei and other Iranian officials “couldn’t escape US intelligence and the advanced tracking systems.” Khamenei took the helm of the Islamic republic in 1989 following the death of Ayatollah…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Iran’s Tasnim and Mehr news agencies report that Khamenei remains ‘steadfast and firm in commanding the field’. Listen to this article | 2 mins info Published On 28 Feb 202628 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been…
Washington — President Trump is pressuring Iran to either curtail its nuclear program or face potential military strikes, grappling with an issue that has vexed presidents from both parties for decades. Iran — which denies any nuclear weapons ambitions — has amassed a stockpile of uranium that is enriched to near the level of purity…
NewsFeed Ahead of the latest round of indirect talks with Iran, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran possesses a large number of ballistic missiles that pose a threat to the United States. Published On 26 Feb 202626 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
The White House’s comment comes days after a senior Trump aide said Iran is one week away from having material for nuclear bomb. Listen to this article | 4 mins info The White House has insisted that last year’s strikes against Iran destroyed the country’s nuclear programme despite a recent claim by a senior US official that…
President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in December that the president would support Israeli strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile program if a deal between Washington and Tehran could not be reached, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity…
One day before a planned naval drill by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, an explosion tore through an apartment building Saturday in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, which sits on the strait. The blast killed a 4-year-old girl as local media footage purportedly showed a security force member being carried out by…
There are liberal reformers, such as human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi or former deputy interior minister Mostafa Tajzadeh. But all of these are either languishing in jails or under house arrest. The regime “has been very good at repressing dissent by jailing dissidents or…
Joe Tidy,BBC cybersecurity correspondentand Farshad Bayan,BBC Persian NurPhoto via Getty Images Iran is 10 days into one of the most extreme internet shutdowns in history, with 92 million citizens cut off from all internet services and even disruption to phone and text messaging. The Iranian government cut off services on 8 January, apparently to stifle…
