Fars News Agency

The site of an explosion that rattled Iran’s capital, on June 26, 2020 (European Commission via AP)

June 27, 2020, 4:20 pm

Large blast in Iran came from suspected missile site, satellite images show

Complex in Tehran’s eastern mountains said to hide underground tunnel system, missile production; authorities have claimed a gas tank blew up at a non-military facility

By Jon Gambrell

An explosion is seen in the night sky near Tehran in a video posted online by the country's Fars news agency, June 26, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

June 26, 2020, 3:14 am

Large explosion lights up Tehran night sky, state media reports

Iranian news agency says blast caused by ‘industrial gas tank explosion,’ police investigating matter

By AFP and TOI staff

Qassem Soleimani is seen moments before his killing in a US drone strike in an Iranian animated video (Courtesy MEMRI)

February 14, 2020, 2:46 pm

Iran animation shows killing of Soleimani, Tehran’s ‘harsh revenge’ on US base

Clip depicts final moments of general slain in US drone strike, mass protests that followed and the eventual missile strike that targeted American troops in Iraq

By TOI staff

An Iranian video shows country's forces killing US President Donald Trump in revenge for the killign of top general Qassem Soleimani. (Fars screenshot)

January 15, 2020, 3:24 am

Iranian video depicts killing of Trump, Netanyahu in assault on White House

Clip aired by country’s Fars news agency dramatizes officials’ decision to take revenge against US and Israel for killing of Qassem Soleimani

By TOI staff

Iranian defense officials unveil new cruise missile Hoveyzeh in Tehran, February 2, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

August 10, 2019, 12:24 pm

Iran unveils ‘upgraded’ missile defense system with ‘high capabilities’

Tehran says locally reconstructed system can detect all types of cruise and ballistic missiles, and drones; has a range of 400 kilometers

By Agencies and TOI staff

American warships USS Boxer, front, USNS Tippecanoe, right, USS John P. Murtha transit the Strait of Hormuz, July 18, 2019. (US Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jason Monty/Released)

August 10, 2019, 4:19 am

Iran says Israeli involvement in US-led naval mission a threat to its security

Tehran warns it will counter Jerusalem’s presence in the region in self-defense after Israel’s FM reportedly said it was helping secure Strait of Hormuz

By Agencies and TOI staff

Hamas then political leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in front of portraits of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini (left), and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right), at a rally in Tehran, February 11, 2012. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

July 31, 2019, 7:23 pm

Report: Israel believes Hamas, Iran agreed on Gaza front in case of northern war

Israeli intelligence sources said to estimate that Tehran has increased its involvement in Strip in effort to turn terror group into its operational arm against Israel

By TOI staff

Hamas deputy political chief Saleh al-Arouri, after signing a reconciliation deal with senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad, during a short ceremony at the Egyptian intelligence complex in Cairo, Egypt, October 12, 2017. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)

July 21, 2019, 11:51 pm

In Tehran, Hamas deputy chief says on ‘same path’ as Iran in fighting Israel

Delegation from Gaza-based terror group meets head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations; Haniyeh says he hopes visit will produce ‘important results’

By Adam Rasgon

Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jets and a refueling plane fly in formation over Nevada during the United States Air Force's Red Flag exercise in August. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

June 22, 2017, 5:41 pm

Iranian regime-linked media claims Israeli F16s are in Saudi Arabia

Unsourced report, ridiculed in Israel, claims IAF forces sent to help prevent a palace coup against new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

By TOI staff

Siamak Moreh Sedgh (left), greets Sayyed Hassan Khomeini, grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. (photo credit: Website of Iran's Jewish community)

October 31, 2016, 9:04 am

Iran Jewish MP denies telling Israeli media Tehran deterred from attacking

After Israel Radio airs tape of Siamak Moreh Sedgh saying Islamic Republic knows launching war would be ‘suicide,’ he says ‘no free man would do interview’ with Israeli reporters

By TOI staff

Syrians sit and look at the rubble following an air strike in Aleppo's rebel-controlled neighborhood of Karm al-Jabal, September 18, 2016. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)

September 22, 2016, 7:21 pm

Russia: Mossad, other foreign agents killed in Aleppo strike

Citing ‘battlefield sources,’ state media says its warships bombed 30 officers from Israel, Qatar and Western countries

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF soldiers stand near a large brush fire outside Kfar Sold in the Golan Heights sparked by four missiles fired from the Syrian side of the Israeli-Syrian border on August 20, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

July 29, 2016, 6:39 pm

Syrian army commander said to ‘narrowly survive’ Israeli strike

Iranian media claims IDF fired missiles across border, missing target; Israel issues no comment on reports

By TOI staff

Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan. (YouTube screen capture)

April 9, 2016, 7:46 pm

Iran official blasts Kerry’s ‘foolish words’ on Tehran destabilizing Mideast

Iranian defense minister says US should ‘leave the region, stop supporting terrorists’

By AFP and TOI staff

Illustrative: A missile launched from the Alborz mountains in Iran on March 9, 2016, reportedly inscribed in Hebrew, 'Israel must be wiped out.' (Fars News)

March 9, 2016, 11:15 am

Iran test-fires 2 missiles marked with ‘Israel must be wiped out’

Senior officer says missiles with 2,000-kilometer range, capable of reaching Israel, are geared ‘to confront the Zionist regime’

By Agencies and TOI staff

Smoke rise from the Syrian village of Quneitra, as seen from the Golan Heights, following fighting between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels over the control of the Quneitra border crossing, on August 28, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

December 27, 2015, 9:21 pm

Syrians on Golan planning ‘resistance front’ against Israel

Local Syrian official says popular movement will unite activities on both sides of the border

By TOI staff