August 3, 2015
6:00 pm

Former Iranian minister of defense Ahmad Vahidi (AP)

Warrant for AMIA attack suspect not lifted with nuke deal

US officials say ex-Iranian defense chief still wanted by Interpol in connection with bombing at Argentina Jewish center

By JTA

August 18, 2013
7:37 pm

Iranian Fateh-110 missiles on display during a 2012 military exhibition in Tehran (photo credit: CC BY-SA, military.ir, Wikimedia Commons)

Iran is world’s sixth-biggest missile power, says ex-official

Former defense minister also claims Tehran leads Middle East in rocket production

By AP

June 13, 2013
3:57 am

Iran’s deep-rooted terror networks pose ‘real risk’

Alberto Nisman, Argentina’s AMIA bombing investigator, says he sees indications of similar Iranian infrastructure in Europe

By David Horovitz

June 9, 2013
11:37 am

The launching of the Safir, or Ambassador, satellite carrier, which carries Iran's Rasad, or Observation, satellite into earth orbit, in an undisclosed location in 2011. (photo credit: AP/Iranian Defense Ministry, Vahid Reza Alaei)

Iran says it set up space monitoring center

Defense minister claims new facility will track objects moving in space, share data with other countries

May 26, 2013
10:56 am

Tehran deploys ‘massive’ number of missile launchers

Iranian defense minister says new weapons, capable of reaching Israel, can ‘crush the enemy’ — but Iran won’t start hostilities

May 9, 2013
10:57 pm

A government drone captured by Sudanese rebels was reportedly manufactured in Iran (photo credit: Courtesy)

Iran says it has built new drone

Tehran defense minister says his country constructed a radar-evading UAV that can do surveillance and fire on enemy targets

April 18, 2013
4:23 pm

Iran says it will ‘raze Tel Aviv, Haifa’ if attacked

After IDF chief says Israel will act as and when necessary, leaders in Tehran shrug off ‘threats by the Zionist regime’

By Aaron Kalman and Stuart Winer

March 20, 2013
9:40 am

Buenos Aires Jews mark embassy bombing

Turnout higher than usual because of controversial Iranian involvement in of attack

March 15, 2013
10:25 pm

Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timerman (photo credit: CC-BY, MRECIC ARG, Flickr)

Interpol won’t lift warrants for 6 Iranians in AMIA bombing

Arrest orders to remain active despite Tehran’s participation in probe of 1994 terror attack

February 6, 2013
10:22 am

Israeli ambassador upbraided in Argentina

Foreign minister reportedly says that ‘Israel has no right to ask for explanations’ over joint probe with Iran into 1994 bombing of Jewish center

By Gabe Fisher

February 2, 2013
10:28 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to an unidentified pilot during a ceremony to unveil Iran's newest fighter jet, the Qaher-313, in Tehran, Iran, earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Younes Khani)

Ahmadinejad unveils new homemade fighter jet

Iran’s defense minister touts Qaher-313 as a radar-evading plane that can carry weapons and fly at low altitudes

By AP and Times of Israel staff

January 29, 2013
2:45 pm

A meeting between former Iranian Vice President Mohammed Reza Rahimi and a minister from Zimbabwe, June 25, 2011 (photo credit: Iranian presidential website)

Defected translator sheds new light on Iran’s global reach

Tehran challenging US presence in East Africa and bypassing sanctions in the Indian subcontinent, says Ahmad Hashemi

By Elhanan Miller

December 25, 2012
6:52 pm

Iranian navy frigate IS Alvand passing through Egypt's Suez Canal in February 2011. (AP, File)

Iran says it will test new subs, drones in upcoming war games

Tehran stepping up its presence along international shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz

By Greg Tepper

December 22, 2012
10:03 am

Patriot missile batteries harm Turkey’s security, Iranian minister says

Ahmad Vahidi says Syrian army strong and capable of contending with Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

October 30, 2012
5:40 pm

Syrian residents walk on a street among the debris of buildings damaged by heavy shelling in the southeast of Aleppo City, on October 27, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Iranian official accuses Israel of meddling in Africa

Elsehwere, diplomats debate whether the fighting in Syria is ‘civil’ or ‘a war of annihilation’