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Illustrative: A presenter for dissident Persian-language TV station Iran International prepares for a news broadcast at the network's studio in London on January 20, 2026. (Carlos Jasso / AFP)
August 27, 2026, 3:04 am
Iran says it views Persian-language media outlets abroad as military targets
Military spokesman says Tehran regards BBC Persian, Iran International, others as ‘soldiers of Zionism and America,’ claims they are directly linked to US and Israeli intel agencies
By Agencies
This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor shows vehicles at the western entrance of the Pickaxe Mountain tunnel complex adjacent to the Natanz Nuclear Facility near Natanz, Isfahan province, central Iran, on June 21, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor/AFP)
July 21, 2026, 11:09 pm
Trump claims US will strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain ‘probably pretty soon’
Israel said to believe Iran moved both centrifuges and enriched uranium to underground nuclear site last year; president downplays Houthi threats to block shipping in Red Sea
By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg and Lazar Berman
US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on July 19, 2026. (Mandel NGAN/AFP)
July 21, 2026, 6:26 am
Trump vows to make Iran ‘pay’ for killing soldiers, as US official says talks ongoing
US president threatens Tehran will pay ‘many times over’ for death of every American soldier, as military carries out 10th consecutive night of strikes while Iran targets Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan
By Jacob Magid, Agencies and Stav Levaton
A still image taken from footage released by US Central Command on July 15, 2026, shows a US strike on an Iranian military target. (CENTCOM via X)
July 15, 2026, 4:51 pm
US launches waves of strikes on Iran throughout Wednesday, as IRGC threatens energy exports
CENTCOM says it targeted capabilities used to attack shipping in Strait of Hormuz; Tehran vows ‘decisive response’ after military personnel killed in overnight attacks
By Agencies
Vehicles drive past a billboard with a graphic showing the Strait of Hormuz superimposed on US President Donald Trump's mouth, in downtown Tehran, Iran, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 2, 2026, 8:00 pm
Trump reviews new proposal from Tehran, warns there’s a ‘possibility’ of renewed fighting
Senior Iranian officer says war with US ‘likely’ as CENTCOM chief arrives in region to meet with troops stationed in the Arabian Sea; Netanyahu to convene security cabinet Sunday
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boat allegedly takes part in an operation to seize ships attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, on April 21, 2026. (MIRZADEH via the Iranian news agency TASNIM NEWS, via AFP)
April 27, 2026, 8:36 pm
Rubio rejects new Iranian proposal to reopen Strait of Hormuz, with future of talks in limbo
Iran’s plan is ‘We’ll blow you up and you pay us,’ says top US diplomat; tanker traffic muted in strait, which Iran says it controls; Germany’s Merz: Iran ‘humiliating’ US in talks
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Members of the Iranian Basij paramilitary force march as a domestically built missile is displayed during a parade in Tehran, Iran, January 10, 2025. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
February 13, 2026, 9:52 pm
Iran’s military degraded by 12-day war with Israel, but still has significant capabilities
Despite its losses to Israel and US, Tehran retains missiles, manpower and regional reach
By David Rising and SAM METZ
In this photo obtained from the US Department of Defense, the US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (IKE) transits the Strait of Hormuz on November 26, 2023. (Ruskin Naval / US Department of Defense / AFP)
January 31, 2026, 2:34 pm
What to know about the Strait of Hormuz as Iran plans military drill amid US tensions
Tehran warns of live fire into crucial strait through which a fifth of all oil traded passes; US warns any unsafe actions risk regional ‘destabilization’
By Jon Gambrell
Top (L-R): IRGC chief Hossein Salami; head of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, Gholam Ali Rashid; Bottom (L-R): IRGC air force chief Amir Ali Hajizadeh; Iran's Armed Forces chief Mohammad Hossein Bagheri. All were killed in Israeli strikes on Iran, June 13, 2025. (IRGC; Tasnim News; Courtesy)
August 30, 2025, 5:08 pm
Israel targeted top Iranian leaders by hacking, tracing their bodyguards’ phones — report
Though Iran’s officials avoided smartphones due to known security risks, NY Times reports rules for their guards and drivers were far more lax – which proved a fatal oversight
By ToI Staff
This picture shows a recently unveiled billboard depicting Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with text in Persian reading "Hitanyahu" and text in Hebrew reading "Germany's Nazi of today" at Palestine Square in central Tehran on August 11, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
August 21, 2025, 12:42 pm
Iranian navy launches country’s first military exercise since war with Israel
Drills take place in Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman, with naval boats launching missiles at targets, as Tehran tries to project power after 12-day war and defeat of its proxies
By AP and ToI Staff
This handout picture provided by the media office of the Iranian presidency shows heavy smoke billowing at the site of an explosion that took place a day earlier in Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan on April 27, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)
April 27, 2025, 9:32 pm
Iranian MP accuses Israel of involvement in port blast, as fires continue to smolder
‘There were explosives planted in the container, either in their country of origin or along the transportation route,’ says parliamentarian Mohammad Siraj, without offering proof
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The logo of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement at the Shatila camp for Palestinian refugees in a southern suburb of Beirut on November 7, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
March 3, 2024, 2:00 pm
Daily Briefing Mar 3: Day 149 – Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the ‘other’ bad guys in Gaza
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on a rare PIJ long-range rocket barrage, strikes on Iranian militias in Lebanon, status of Gazan detainees and a rescued hostage’s return to service
By ToI Staff
File: Chief of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri addresses a military parade commemorating the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War, in front of the shrine of the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 21, 2023, 7:46 pm
As maritime tensions with US soar, Iran brags it can secure Gulf with its neighbors
Comments by Tehran’s army chief come days after US, French and UK naval commanders transit through Strait of Hormuz aboard American warship in rare show of force
By AFP
Illustrative: A boat of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy operates in close proximity to patrol coastal ship USS Sirocco and expeditionary fast transport USNS Choctaw County in the Strait of Hormuz, June 20, 2022. (US Navy via AP)
December 29, 2022, 5:30 pm
Iran’s military begins drill near Strait of Hormuz amid mounting tensions with West
Air, ground and naval branches to take part in exercise along key waterway, as Tehran faces sanctions over alleged supply of armaments to Russia for use in Ukraine
By AFP
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
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