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The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards issued another warning to Israel on Thursday against its plans to retaliate for a missile barrage launched by Tehran earlier this month.

Russia's deputy foreign minister warned Israel that it would be "a catastrophic development" to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, wading in on the conflict between the two archenemies.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU) have jointly urged Iran to relinquish control of three Persian Gulf islands, which it has held since 1971 following Britain's withdrawal from the region.

The United States launched strikes on five Houthi key weapons storage facilities in Yemen on Wednesday, as part of ongoing efforts to weaken the Iran-backed group amid its maritime blockade of the Red Sea.

An opinion poll conducted by a government-owned agency in Iran to gauge university students' attitudes toward cultural and social issues has revealed insights into how they spend their leisure time and where they get their news.

Rights watchdog Freedom House ranked Iran as having the world’s third most repressive internet environment and lambasted the Islamic Republic for criminalizing online criticism to boost voter turnout and legitimize its presidential elections.

Iran trained most of its cyber might away from the United States toward Israel since the Gaza war began last year, according to a report by technology giant Microsoft.

Canada designated Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian group responsible for leading "death to Canada" chants and burning the Canadian flag during an anti-Israel protest in Vancouver earlier this month, as a terrorist entity on Tuesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has departed for Jordan, advancing his Middle East tour to rally support among regional countries as Tehran braces for a promised Israeli retaliatory strike.

Israeli security services have arrested a Russian-Israeli citizen for being part of an Iran-backed assassination plot targeting a senior scientist for $100,000, the second in just three days.

Kayhan daily says Iran must close the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to European vessels in retaliation for the European Union’s sanctions on Iran Air, the country’s flagship carrier.

Masoud Pezeshkian’s strategic deputy and former foreign minister, Mohammad-Javad Zarif, has said that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei opposes nuclear weapons not only for religious reasons but also for strategic considerations.

Israel appears closer to showing its hand on how and when it will strike back at Iran as as a critical US election looms, Jewish holidays wrap up and US-Israeli diplomacy accelerates.

Iran Air, the only Iranian airline operating flights to European Union countries, has suspended its services to Europe due to new sanctions imposed by the bloc, Iranian authorities announced on Tuesday.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday that the global oil market is set for a surplus and that it was ready to act in the event of a supply disruption, suggesting an Iran outage may have little impact.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured US President Joe Biden in a phone call that Israel will refrain from attacking Iran's nuclear or energy facilities, US newspapers reported citing officials.

Australia has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans targeting individuals associated with the Iran's missile program, two weeks after Tehran's missile barrage against Israel.

A Lebanese Shia, now seeking refuge in Canada after escaping Hezbollah indoctrination and surviving an assassination attempt by the Iran-backed group, has shared insider knowledge of Hezbollah's operations with Iran International.

On the back of new sanctions, Iran has denied supplying ballistic missiles to Russia as domestic media blames Moscow for exacerbating Tehran's challenges while offering no support in return.

In the early hours of Tuesday, October 15, Iran’s state television briefly showed Esmail Qa’ani sitting in silence among mourners who received the body of Abbas Nilforoushan’s, the IRGC’s deputy operations commander.

Iran officially declared on Monday an end to its "indirect" negotiations with the United States, which were seemingly aimed at lifting US sanctions and restraining Israel from pursuing the defeat of Hamas and Hezbollah.