MI5 chief Ken McCallum said Iran has increasingly sought to target military sites and other harder targets in Britain, citing RAF Fairford as part of a broader pattern.
The Revolutionary Guards said six people were killed near Zahedan on Tuesday, while Haalvsh reported more than 20 Fatemiyoun members killed or wounded in separate fighting in Sistan-Baluchestan.
Iran was finalizing its response to US comments on a proposal Tehran submitted in New York, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Tuesday.
The Saudi-led coalition intercepted and destroyed three drones north of Riyadh, the coalition spokesperson said on Tuesday.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Iran must engage in serious negotiations and stop destabilizing the region, following a call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the German government said on Tuesday.
Iran can use negotiations to defend its rights and national interests without surrendering to the other side’s demands, a senior cleric in the northeastern Golestan province said on Tuesday.
“Iran is a failed country. They have no economy. They have 300 percent inflation. They have no money. They're not paying their troops. They're not paying anybody. We'll make a decision on Iran soon,” US President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday.
Armed men opened fire on a Toyota Hilux pickup truck and a motorcycle carrying members of the Fatemiyoun militia near Chabahar in southeastern Iran on Tuesday, local rights group Haalvsh reported.
The attack took place along the Ramin road in Chabahar County, in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province. Fatemiyoun is an Iran-backed Afghan Shiite militia. Haalvsh provided no information on casualties.
In a separate incident the same day, Haalvsh reported that two mines exploded along the route of a convoy carrying Revolutionary Guards and Fatemiyoun fighters near the Kaleh military base in the Pirsuran area.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed ongoing efforts to resolve regional conflicts in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing a Turkish diplomatic source.
Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said Tuesday the group’s forces were confronting Saudi fighter jets targeting Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.
Mojtaba Khamenei’s representative in the IRGC said Iran’s adversaries failed to achieve their goal of destroying the Islamic Republic despite inflicting heavy material losses.
“They are now pleading for a return to the conditions that existed before the war,” Hossein Tayyebifar added.
Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV on Tuesday reported an attack on the Yemen Oil Company in Sanaa, shortly after the Saudi-led coalition ordered the facility evacuated ahead of a military operation.
Two mines exploded along the route of a convoy carrying IRGC forces and members of its Fatemiyoun fighters, an Iran-backed Afghan Shiite militia, near the Kaleh military base in the Pirsuran area of Taftan, in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, local Baluch rights group Haalvsh reported.
Haalvsh said powerful blasts were heard in the area following the explosions. No precise casualty figures were immediately available.
The Saudi-led coalition on Tuesday called on civilians to evacuate the Yemen Petroleum Company’s central al-Sabaha facility in Sanaa ahead of a planned military operation.
The coalition said the warning was issued for civilians’ safety and published a map identifying the site.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday that Turkey would stand by Saudi Arabia amid attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, the Turkish presidency said.
Iran has stepped up efforts to target more sensitive sites in Britain, including military facilities, the head of the UK’s domestic intelligence service MI5 said on Tuesday.
“There has been a major shift this year in Iranian ambitions to come at harder targets, like military sites,” MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said in his annual speech on threats facing Britain.
McCallum said the suspected plot involving RAF Fairford, a British air base used by US bombers during strikes on Iran, was “not unique,” adding that there had been other examples in Britain and elsewhere.
He declined to discuss the Fairford case in detail because of an ongoing investigation.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that Tehran was “highly likely” to have been behind the suspected plot at the base. Iranian authorities have denied involvement in hostile operations in Britain.
McCallum said threats from foreign states had quadrupled over the past decade, forcing MI5 to devote more resources to the issue than during the Cold War.