The Latest Breaking News from Tehran

Iran’s supreme leader issues new threat after initially playing down Israeli strikes on Iranian military facilities

An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster is believed to be detained by Iran for months now

Israel’s attack on Iran likely damaged a base run by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that builds ballistic missiles and launches rockets as part of its own space program

Germany warns of ‘serious consequences’ for Tehran’s ‘inhumane regime’

Iran’s religious ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims Israel’s aerial attack should not be exaggerated amid fears of wider war – but his officials branded the airstrikes a violation of international law

Strikes also targeted military sites linked to Tehran’s nuclear programme and ballistic missile production

How Iran chooses to respond to the unusually public Israeli airstrikes could determine whether the region spirals further toward all-out war or holds steady at an already devastating and destabilizing level of violence

Israeli attack damages secret Iranian bases linked to nuclear and missile programs

Israel’s airstrikes of Oct. 26, 2024 – which hit around 20 military targets in Iran, Iraq and Syria – had been anticipated for weeks. Indeed, the operation followed a promise from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to retaliate for an earlier ballistic missile attack by Tehran in early October.