Sweden’s government on Monday accused a Shia Muslim mosque in Stockholm of being a platform for Iranian spying against Sweden and the Iranian diaspora. Sweden’s Minister for Social Affairs said on X that the Swedish Security Service assessed that the Imam Ali Islamic Center in Stockholm was used by Iran as a platform to spy…
Iran has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets, a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Monday, amid growing concerns in the West over military cooperation between Tehran and Moscow. IRGC commander Ali Shadmani, quoted by the state-affiliated Student News Network, did not disclose the number of jets purchased or whether they have already been…
Israel said Monday that it had arrested two Israelis suspected of spying for Iran, including one accused of handing the country classified information obtained during his military service. It marks the latest in a series of detentions in Israel of people charged with espionage on its arch-foe Iran’s behalf since the summer. Israel’s internal security…
European diplomats are scrambling to see if there is a way to minimize the risk of a military attack on Iran’s nuclear program ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House. “We believe Israel has taken the decision to attack following the developments in the Middle East over the last several months,” one senior…
The document is expected to bring relations between Moscow and Tehran to a new level, establishing a legal framework for the further development of cooperation in the long term The Russian and Iranian presidents, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian have signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty. The ceremony was held following the talks in the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Russia on Jan. 17 after which they will sign a long-awaited comprehensive strategic partnership pact, the Kremlin said on Monday. The two leaders will discuss options for further expanding ties between Moscow and Tehran, including in the trade and investment, transport and logistics,…
Iran’s supreme leader denied Sunday that militant groups around the region functioned as Tehran’s proxies, warning that if his country chose to “take action,” it would not need them anyway. The remarks came after a year in which Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza suffered heavy losses in wars with Israel, and two…
Iran confirmed Saturday that it has allowed watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to increase the number of inspections it carries out into Tehran’s nuclear program, state media reported. “We have increased capacity – it is natural that the number of inspections should also increase,” the official IRNA news agency quoted the country’s nuclear chief Mohammad…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that he and the foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran had agreed in a meeting in Doha that there had to be an immediate end to “hostilities” in Syria, Reuters reports. Lavrov said Moscow wanted to see dialogue between the Syrian government and what he called the “legitimate…
The collapse of Russia’s ally Syria in the face of an assault from opposition groups shows Moscow cannot fight on two fronts, Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Thursday while reiterating denials that Kyiv was involved in the fighting there. “We can see that Russia cannot fight on two fronts — this is clear from the…
An Iranian fighter jet crashed in the south of the country Wednesday, killing the two pilots, state media reported. State television identified the pilots as Col. Hamid Reza Ranjbar and Col. Manouchehr Pirzadeh, saying they were on a test flight after the plane was overhauled. The crash took place near the town of Firouzabad, some…
Iran said on Monday that it plans to keep military “advisors” in Syria after its ally’s second city Aleppo was overrun by opposition fighters in a surprise offensive. Tehran has been a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the civil war that broke out in 2011, sending thousands of fighters to Syria. “We…
Iran is set to meet on Friday with France, Germany and the United Kingdom for talks on its nuclear program after the three governments joined with the United States to have Tehran censured by the UN atomic watchdog. Last week’s chiding prompted a defiant response from Tehran, but its officials have since signaled willingness to…
There is no indication that a part of Iran’s Parchin military complex that Israel hit in an air attack last month was a nuclear facility or had nuclear material present, UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday. He was responding to a journalist’s question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comment in a speech on…
New EU and British sanctions are based on false claims of missile transfers to Russia and are “unjustified”, Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Tuesday. Brussels on Monday added the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and its director to its list of sanctions on Iran, which it said were a consequence of Tehran’s support…
