Iran’s currency, the rial, hit a record low over 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar on Monday as the Trump administration prepared to unveil its “Economic D-Day” maximum sanctions against Tehran.
President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States will declare the Strait of Hormuz “U.S. territory” after it finishes defeating Iran, escalating his assertion of American control over the strategic waterway as Tehran vowed that the strait “has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian.”
President Donald Trump is preparing to dramatically escalate his “Economic Fury” campaign against Iran, with new measures coming next week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Thursday.
Iran’s representative at a meeting of the anti-American BRICS coalition on Wednesday used the opportunity to demand that member countries invest more of their time, money, and energy into “practical initiatives” to help Iran, a call that follows months of minimal support from the bloc during the ongoing war with America.
Iran’s elusive Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei appointed six new military commanders on Monday, most notably replacing Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary Mohammad Baqer Zolqard with Mohsen Rezaei, a veteran commander of the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that communicating with Iran’s unseen Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is currently “very difficult.”
The Iranian Foreign Ministry claimed during its regular briefing on Monday that its officials were not engaged in any direct negotiations with the administration of President Donald Trump, but rather working out a plan for the Strait of Hormuz with the government of Oman.
President Donald Trump’s intelligence community has concluded that Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is far more inclined than his father to pursue nuclear weapons, raising concerns that Tehran’s long-term nuclear ambitions may have hardened despite the devastating damage inflicted on its atomic program.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is close to deciding whether to order a “massive attack” on Iran “bigger than ever before,” as the United States expands its military campaign against the Islamic Republic, reinforces its force posture across the region, and warns Tehran that further escalation will bring increasingly severe consequences.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is subordinate to missing “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei, declared in remarks on Monday that his country is in a “full-scale war” with the United States following the disintegration of a “memorandum of understanding” towards peace.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry lamented the resurgence of violence between Iran and the United States on Wednesday, urging both countries to “follow through on their memorandum of understanding” and “avoid resorting to force.”
President Donald Trump was greeted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he arrived in Ankara on Tuesday for the 36th annual NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government.
The “supreme leader” of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, was notably absent from funeral events for his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei this weekend – an absence emphasized by the presence of three of his brothers.
The Iranian regime scheduled a two-day funeral ceremony for its former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the 4th and 5th of July.
U.S. officials feared Israel might target two of Iran’s top negotiators during sensitive peace talks this spring, concerned such a strike could derail the diplomatic effort and reignite the war, according to a report published Thursday.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told reporters on Wednesday that his agency would “indeed” conduct inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, as the Iranian terror regime agreed to allow such inspections in its peace deal with America.
A U.S. fighter pilot who survived being shot down over Iran and was later rescued in a dramatic special operations mission reported seeing a bizarre, jellyfish-like formation of Iranian drones moving in unison moments before his F-15 went down, according to a report published Tuesday that has fueled new concerns about previously unknown capabilities in Tehran’s drone arsenal.
Iranian government officials claimed on Tuesday that, as part of the memorandum of understanding signed with America last week, the Islamist regime would gain access to about $12 billion in frozen assets.
The Foreign Ministry of Iran did not contradict reports on Monday claiming that talks between the country and the United States in Switzerland were productive this weekend – going as far as to credit mediators Qatar and Pakistan with “major progress.”
Dozens of senior Iranian officials and military commanders were eliminated during Operation Epic Fury, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi cheered the signing of a memorandum of understanding between America and Iran.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung denied that a text circulating in multiple mainstream media outlets late on Tuesday was an accurate text of the ultimate draft of a memorandum of understanding between Iran and America to end the current war and pave the wave for nuclear negotiations.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that it “welcomed” the announcement the day prior that Iran and America had come to an agreement to end active hostilities with a memorandum of understanding expected to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
Iranian military leaders celebrated the news on Monday that the country had agreed to the terms of a memorandum of understanding with the United States to end the current conflict, suggesting that the agreement represented “defeat and surrender” for America.
President Donald Trump told Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst on Wednesday that Iranian officials directly contacted Trump and asked the United States to halt its ongoing bombing campaign against Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned in a message on Tuesday that American forces should leave the Middle East “if you want to be safe,” threatening a response after the Pentagon confirmed pervasive airstrikes against Iranian military sites that day.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Tuesday that the Iran war is “over now,” while laying out what he described as the Trump administration’s non-negotiable conditions for any broader agreement currently under discussion with Tehran.
The United Arab Emirates carried out dozens of coordinated airstrikes against Iran alongside the United States and Israel during the conflict with Tehran — including strikes on strategic energy and military infrastructure that reportedly continued even after the April ceasefire announcement — according to a report published Friday.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reportedly reached a tentative agreement to extend the fragile ceasefire between the two countries by 60 days and launch negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, though President Donald Trump has not yet signed off on the deal.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry demanded on Thursday that the United Nations Security Council act to contain the United States in response to limited action against its attack drones, which Tehran claimed to respond to by bombing a U.S. air base.
The Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported on Wednesday that a senior National Security Council official in the country claimed the first round of peace talks with the United States did not address the country’s enriched uranium stockpile.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei — who has not been seen or heard from publicly since succeeding his slain father following the opening U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran — declared Tuesday that “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” would become the rallying cries of the Muslim world while vowing that the Jewish state was nearing the “final stages” of its existence.
Israel marked U.S. Memorial Day with a video message honoring fallen American troops and emphasizing the solidarity between the United States and the Jewish state.
President Donald Trump is “ending a war that Iran has had against us for 47 years,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said.
Iran says that it has submitted an updated proposal and received a response from the United States for a potential agreement ending the conflict.
American director and producer Michael Bay, the filmmaker behind Pearl Harbor, Pain & Gain and the Transformers movies, is ready to direct a film about the U.S. pilots retrieved from behind enemy lines in Iran during Operation Epic Fury.
Iran recently sent an updated peace proposal to America via Pakistani mediators, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday, which reportedly includes demands for “reparations” and no meaningful concessions on the country’s illicit nuclear activity.
Pakistan sent a squadron of jet fighters, an air-defense system, and about 8,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to honor a mutual defense pact.
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” President Donald Trump stated that, “at the request of a very nice group of people from Pakistan, who are very close to Iran,” we stopped military
Federal authorities charged an Iran-backed Iraqi militia commander accused of orchestrating a sweeping retaliation campaign targeting Americans and Jews, alleging he coordinated nearly 20 attacks abroad before authorities disrupted a plot targeting a prominent Manhattan synagogue and Jewish institutions in California and Arizona.
