Lebanon was named in the first clause of the Islamabad memorandum, with Iran presenting itself as a guarantor of its territorial integrity. But repeated Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, especially Ali al-Taher, have exposed the limits of that guarantee.
Anthropic said Thursday that Iranian state-aligned and Iran-linked accounts used Claude in separate operations involving propaganda, targeting US naval forces, domestic surveillance and profiling people in Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
Hardliners in Tehran are pressing for further military and nuclear escalation despite mounting economic pressure and a widening confrontation with the United States. Is it a reckless gamble, or a realistic response to Iran’s dwindling options?
Iranian missiles damaged several American military aircraft at a base in Jordan this week, a US official told Reuters, underscoring the continuing ability of Iranian strikes to penetrate US defenses after more than six months of war.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday as the US-Iran conflict widened across the region, while senior White House advisers reportedly warned President Donald Trump that the war could continue beyond the end of his term in January 2029.
An Iraqi commander of an Iran-backed militia who allegedly plotted attacks against Jewish targets in Europe and North America applied three times to visit Singapore, the city-state’s Internal Security Department said.
Iran is seeking to turn the US maritime blockade back on Washington by expanding its retaliation beyond the Strait of Hormuz, threatening shipping across a wider area after US attacks on Iranian tankers.
A US cruise missile strike on a railway bridge 700 miles from the war's main front has a puzzle at its center: Iranian media said it hit the China corridor, Iran's own figures say the line is minor and points at Russia, and Washington has not said why.
The escalating battle between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis may be a test of what remains of Tehran’s Axis of Resistance after months of war and mounting pressure on Iran itself.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis attacked energy facilities and cities in southern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding at least 73 people and raising fears of a wider regional war.
Iran has signalled a sharper military posture after threatening US warships and energy interests, while seeking to extend its control of shipping beyond the Strait of Hormuz.
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry called for legal action against those behind an attack on Iraqi students in Iran’s Semnan province after a confrontation reportedly triggered by unconfirmed allegations that several Iraqi students assaulted an Iranian woman.
Canada backed efforts led by the United States, France and Britain to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pledged further measures against Iran, the government said on Sunday.
US attacks on Iranian oil tankers could make it far harder and more expensive for Tehran to keep selling its crude, but the strategy carries a potentially much larger cost: turning the Persian Gulf’s energy infrastructure into an expanding battlefield.
Tehran has intensified efforts to target Iranian government opponents and journalists abroad, as well as Israelis overseas, an official at Israel’s National Security Council told Iran International.
US forces struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday, including two near Iran’s coast and one off Kharg Island deep in the western Persian Gulf, roughly 300 miles northwest of Hormuz, a few days after similar attacks on two NITC tankers off Jask.
Donald Trump said again on Friday that the United States may soon strike Pickaxe Mountain, the underground complex near Natanz that is the last significant site linked to Iran's nuclear program still untouched after two wars.
A debate is widening in Tehran over whether Iran is exhausting one of its most powerful weapons against the United States, with growing warnings that the Strait of Hormuz could lose its effectiveness the longer restrictions continue.
The Strait of Hormuz has become one of the most dangerous points of leverage in the US-Iran war, but it may also offer Tehran and Washington their clearest route back to negotiations.
Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance” is unlikely to disappear, but years of war have left its members weakened, increasingly independent and less capable of acting as a coordinated network under Tehran’s direction, The Economist reported.
The latest round of US and Iranian attacks has shifted the debate in Tehran from whether the country is in crisis to a more fundamental question: what does survival now require—compromise or continued confrontation?
Donald Trump’s renewed call for Iranians to rise up against the Islamic Republic has revived a question among some of those he is urging into the streets: after months of shifting US policy, can they trust Washington to stand by them if they do?