Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has put the Iranian military on full alert amid US demands that the Islamic Republic negotiate over a nuclear deal, Saudi state-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya reported on Sunday. While the Islamic Republic has rejected US President Donald Trump’s demand for direct negotiations, it wishes to continue indirect…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the US would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump’s threat of bombing if the country does not reach a new nuclear deal with Washington. “The enmity from the US and Israel has always been there. They threaten to attack…
The U.S. will launch military attacks on Iran if Tehran does not engage in talks with Washington on limiting its nuclear program, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, after Iran’s foreign minister dismissed direct contact between the two countries. Newsweek has reached out to the Iranian Foreign Ministry for comment via email. Why It Matters…
The Hebrew language account opened by Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on social media platform X has been suspended after just two posts, as per Jerusalem Post. The latest post from Sunday read, “The Zionist regime made a mistake, and erred in its calculation regarding Iran. We will make it understand what power, ability, initiative…
Israel’s attack on Iran was, in the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, “precise and powerful,” as Iranian leaders weighed a possible response. Netanyahu stated that the attack “achieved all its objectives,” during a speech at a memorial event on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem for the victims of the Hamas massacre on…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian medical officials say a new Israeli strike in Gaza has killed 11, including three children, hours after another killed at least 10 people. An Israeli strike hit a house in central Gaza early Saturday. The dead are all from the same family and were killed in the Maghazi refugee camp, according…
Israel-Iran war updates: Hashem Safieddine, the likely successor to Hezbollah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, was killed along with his companions in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut, Saudi news outlet Al Hadath reported on Saturday. Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine speaks in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon. (REUTERS file) Al Hadath also claimed that Israel had confirmed…
Joe Biden has urged Israel against striking Iran’s oil facilities, a day after he said the United States was discussing the possibility of such strikes with its ally. “If I were in their shoes, I’d be thinking about other alternatives than striking oil fields,” Mr Biden told reporters on Friday, adding that he believed Israel…
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to defeat the country’s “enemies” in his rare Friday sermon, backing Palestinians and Lebanese movements against Israel. Addressing a gathering of thousands of supporters at a mosque in central Tehran, Khamenei called the October 7 attacks as the “correct move. “No international law has the right to object…
By Samia Nakhoul and Laila Bassam DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Hezbollah leader Syyed Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said. In the immediate aftermath…