Iran’s ongoing murder of dissidents had an especially heartless episode on Monday, as 25-year-old protester Alireza Sepahi was hanged at dawn just hours after marrying his imprisoned fiancee Mahshad Keshani, 22, in a jailhouse phone call.
President Donald Trump warned Friday that the United States may strike Iran’s heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site “very soon,” declaring that Washington is closely tracking activity at the underground complex and will prevent Tehran from using it to rebuild its nuclear program.
Iran has reportedly collapsed access tunnels and planted explosive mines around a key nuclear facility believed to contain much of the regime’s highly enriched uranium stockpile, potentially complicating a central component of the emerging U.S.-Iran agreement aimed at ending the months-long conflict in the Middle East.
President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran has agreed to surrender its stockpile of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium, and the Iranians are evidently willing to deliver the material to inspectors, ensuring it will not be necessary to send in U.S. ground forces to secure it.
The recent massive U.S. strike near Iran’s central city of Isfahan likely sought to render Tehran’s remaining highly enriched uranium stockpile inaccessible by burying it deep underground — a strategy that would negate the need for a prolonged and risky U.S. ground operation to extract the material, according to an Israeli military analyst writing Tuesday.
President Donald Trump is seriously weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium from Iran, insisting Tehran must surrender what he called the regime’s “nuclear dust” or face annihilation, according to a report published Sunday night.
President Donald Trump is weighing options that could include deploying special operations forces into Iran to secure or destroy highly enriched uranium stockpiles as part of his pledge that Tehran “will not have a nuclear bomb,” according to multiple reports Saturday.
New satellite imagery shows Iran has buried the entrances to a hardened tunnel complex at its Isfahan nuclear site, a move a U.S.-based watchdog said signals Tehran is “seriously concerned” about a strike or raid.
Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Saturday that his agency believes “the majority” of Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium survived bombing runs from Israel and the United States in June.
Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on Friday offered to travel to Iran and assess the damage to its nuclear sites following Israel’s airstrikes.
Iran recently expanded its ban on dog-walking to cities outside Tehran, while a growing number of Iranians are embracing dog ownership as an act of rebellion against their theocratic regime.
In the latest of a series of unexplained disasters in Iran, an explosion was reported Sunday at a power station near the central province of Isfahan.
A second synagogue has been reported vandalized in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, with attackers damaging Torah scrolls, prayer books and ritual objects.
Iran arrested more than thirty men between the ages of 16 and 30 at a private party in Isfahan last week, all of whom are suspected of being homosexuals.
An Iranian court in Shirz has sentenced 12 Iranian men and women who work in the fashion industry to between five months and up to six years in prison for “spreading prostitution” by posting images online.
A senior Iranian cleric from Isfahan, Iran, said “immorality” among young Iranian women, stemming from dressing “improperly,” is resulting in climate change and causing the rivers and dams in Iran to run dry.
An Iranian woman was reportedly publicly flogged 100 times on Wednesday in the Iranian state of Isfahan for an alleged extramarital affair four years ago.
