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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 650

Iran-Iraq War

A man walks past a billboard displaying images of top Iranian commanders and scientists killed in Israeli strikes early Friday, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
June 25, 2025, 4:38 am
Israeli strikes hollowed out Iran’s leadership, but IRGC will remain dominant force
By targeting top military figures, Israel delivered a symbolic and strategic blow, though experts warn that regime may now ‘move in a much more hard-line direction’ under the Guards
By Nava Freiberg
Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 12, 2025, during a meeting with Iranian students in Tehran. (IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER'S WEBSITE / AFP)
March 14, 2025, 8:11 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Dramatic saga of the temporary Israel-Iran alliance
ToI’s diplomatic reporter talks about the complex historical ties between the two peoples — and why Israel was arming Iran after the Islamic revolution
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Iran's domestically built missiles are displayed during the annual rally commemorating Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 26, 2023, 1:31 am
Iran’s defense ministry boasts of capabilities of ‘Israel-striker’ missiles
Raisi says Jerusalem’s efforts to normalize relations with regional powers will fail, populations in Abraham Accords countries ‘have a great deal of hate’ for Israel
By ToI Staff
An Iranian Kaman-22 drone is carried on a truck during an annual military parade marking the Iran-Iraq War, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 22, 2023, 5:56 pm
Iran unveils ‘longest-range drone in the world,’ threatens Israel at military parade
Event marking Iran-Iraq War includes display of numerous UAVs and missiles, Hebrew and English signs warning ‘prepare your shelters’
By ToI Staff
Mourners attend a funeral procession for a group of unknown Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war whose remains were recently recovered in the battlefields, in Tehran, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
December 27, 2022, 2:52 pm
Iran holds funerals for 400 unidentified soldiers killed in 1980s Iran-Iraq war
At ceremony, recently recovered remains laid to rest as President Ebrahim Raisi claims enemy nations have sought and failed to ‘pressure Iran during the recent protests’
By AP
S-300 missiles are carried during a military parade commemorating the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 22, 2022, 6:10 pm
Iran showcases new precision ballistic missile in military parade
Tehran claims medium-range projectile can reach targets up to 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) away
By AFP
Courtroom sketch shows Iranian defendant Hamid Noury (2nd from left) sitting in the District Court of Stockholm with his defense attorney Daniel Marcus (3rd from left) on the opening of his trial for war crimes and murder, on August 10, 2021. (Anders Humlebo/AFP)
July 20, 2022, 11:50 pm
Iran recalls Sweden envoy in protest over ex-official’s war crimes sentence
Foreign ministry spokesman says Hamid Noury’s life sentence rests on ‘baseless, distorted and fabricated accusations,’ in case that has tested relations between nations
By AFP
Supporters of the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran protest outside Stockholm's district court on the first day of the trial of Hamid Noury, in Stockholm, August 10, 2021. (Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency via AP, File)
July 15, 2022, 9:20 am
Iranian gets life in prison in Sweden for war crimes during war with Iraq in 1980s
Court says said Hamid Noury, 61, participated ‘in the executions of many political prisoners’ at the orders of supreme leader Khomeini
By AP
Iranians mourn in Tehran during a funeral procession for 150 Iranian soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), whose bodies were recovered from battlefields, on January 6, 2022. (AFP)
January 6, 2022, 3:02 pm
Thousands of Iranian mourners attend mass funeral for 250 dead in ’80s war with Iraq
None of the victims’ remains identified; tombstones read ‘anonymous martyr’; largest such ceremony in recent years, ahead of 2nd anniversary of downing of Ukrainian plane
By Isabel Debre
Illustrative -- Demonstrators of Iranian opposition group PMOI (People's Mujahedin Organization) protest near the Iran's embassy in Paris, Jan. 3, 2018, in solidarity with those demonstrating in Iran (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
December 9, 2020, 8:22 am
Amnesty hails ‘breakthrough’ as UN presses Iran on 1988 massacres of dissidents
Rights groups have long campaigned for justice over what they describe as the extrajudicial executions of thousands of mainly young people across Iran just as the Iraq war ended
By AFP
Jacqueline Saper at age 16 in 1977, before the 1979 Iranian Revolution (left), and at age 23 in 1982. (right).
December 4, 2020, 4:47 am
Miniskirted no more: Jewish woman charts 8 years of oppression under Iran regime
In award-winning memoir ‘From Miniskirt to Hijab,’ Jacqueline Saper explains how watching her 6-year-old daughter don a hijab for 1st grade forced her to finally flee her homeland
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Iranian Revolutionary Guard members participate in a Jewish memorial service for Jewish soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq War, October 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)
October 31, 2019, 8:23 pm
Revolutionary Guards honor Jewish soldiers at religious memorial in Iran
Troops, Muslim clerics filmed listening as Kadish is recited for Jewish victims of Iran-Iraq War, highlighting regime’s efforts to appear tolerant
By ToI Staff
Iraqi President Barham Salih, right, walks with visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, after inspecting an honor guard at Salam Palace, Baghdad, March 11, 2019. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)
March 11, 2019, 7:19 pm
Iran president on first Iraq visit seeks to deepen alliance, evade US sanctions
Underlining how ties have changed since Saddam invaded Iran in 1980, Rouhani meets counterpart Barham Salih, touts ‘unity and cooperation’ between Shiite neighbors
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Hezbollah supporters hold images of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenai, during celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution in Beirut on February 6, 2019. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
February 10, 2019, 8:26 pm
Iran’s revolution: Political quake still shaking Middle East
Ousting the shah in 1979 upended regional order, and continues to shape events today in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon
By Kay Armin Serjoie and Marc Jourdier
Illustrative image: Iranian mourners carry flag-draped coffins of soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
September 13, 2018, 12:48 pm
Thousands of Iranians attend funeral for soldiers killed in 1980s war
135 bodies were buried in Tehran 30 years after end of Iran-Iraq war but only 17 of them have been identified
By AP
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