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Cyber operations between Israel and Iran have intensified since June’s brief war despite a ceasefire, the Financial Times reported, citing Israeli officials and cybersecurity experts.

The head of Iran’s parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Sunday that no time or place has been set for new talks with the US as an ongoing review looks set to conclude that negotiations with the US are unjustified.

The political deputy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard criticized the recent US-brokered Armenia-Azerbaijan agreement on the Zangezur corridor, warning the deal risks destabilizing the strategically vital South Caucasus region.

Tehran has condemned US plans to develop Armenia’s Zangezur corridor as part of a peace deal with Azerbaijan, branding it a challenge to regional security, a senior Iranian diplomat said.

Iranian authorities have threatened dozens of journalists at London-based broadcaster Iran International, along with hundreds of their relatives, in a bid to force them to resign, Forbes reported.

Three suspected militants and a police officer were killed in an armed clash in the southeastern Iranian city of Saravan, police in Sistan and Baluchestan province said on Sunday, in the latest violence to hit the restive region.

Tanker tracking data obtained by Iran International shows sharp fluctuations in Iranian oil discharges at Chinese ports this year, alongside a steep rise in floating oil stocks.

The Islamic Republic's threats to critics in Canada could grow in 2025, with Iran using organized crime networks to intimidate and harm them, Canada’s intelligence agency warned on Saturday.

Former Iranian nuclear negotiator and senior diplomat turned Princeton academic Hossein Mousavian has left the university in what is described by Princeton as retirement, while activists call it a dismissal following sustained campaign pressures.

Several Iranian officials have bristled at Donald Trump’s mocking remarks about the slain commander Qasem Soleimani, calling his assassination in a 2020 US drone strike an act of terrorism that should have been avenged by killing American leaders.

The Islamic Republic has relocated its surviving nuclear scientists to safe houses in Tehran and northern Iran after Israeli airstrikes killed several of them during the June conflict, The Telegraph reported on Saturday citing Iranian and Israeli sources.

Lebanon on Saturday strongly condemned the remarks made by a top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader about Beirut's decision to disarm Tehran-backed Hezbollah, warning the Islamic Republic against interfering in its internal affairs.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June in a way that limited the scope of the conflict and avoided a broader war.

The Financial Action Task Force has invited Islamic Republic representatives to attend talks in Spain aimed at ending a seven-year impasse over the country’s blacklisting, Iran’s economy minister said.

Iran and the United States could begin Norway-mediated talks in August, Iran’s state-run English-language newspaper Tehran Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.

Iran will stop the establishment of a US-backed transit corridor in the South Caucasus even without Moscow’s help, as it would endanger regional security and alter the geopolitical map, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said on Saturday.

More than one million migrants were returned from Iran to Afghanistan over the past 100 days, including 450,000 from Tehran province, Tehran’s governor said on Saturday.

Over 40 days after a 12-day war with Israel left dozens of senior Revolutionary Guards dead, key command posts in Iran’s military remain unfilled, raising questions over the Islamic Republic’s operational cohesion.

Iran’s president said on Saturday that Israel’s attack on the country during the June 12-day war was carried out under US direction and in pursuit of Washington’s objectives.

Iran cautioned on Saturday that any foreign interference near its borders could undermine security in the South Caucasus after Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a US-brokered peace agreement.

The Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel was the result of years of planning by Iran, Mohsen Mahdian, managing editor of the state-run Hamshahri daily, said on Friday in remarks published on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s official website.