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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

Israel-Iran relations

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a joint press conference in Tehran, on November 19, 2024. (AFP)
November 27, 2024, 6:37 pm
Iran welcomes ceasefire in Lebanon, indicates it may influence plans to strike Israel
Foreign Minister Araghchi says if Lebanese government, Hezbollah are ‘happy’ with arrangement, then so is Tehran; taunts Netanyahu for saying Israel will focus on Iranian threat
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 13, 2024, 6:12 pm
CIA official charged over classified docs leak on Israeli plans to strike Iran
Asif William Rahman arrested in Cambodia, set to appear before court in Guam; documents circulated on social media over a week before Israel’s Oct. 26 airstrikes
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video statement addressed to the Iranian people, November 12, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)
November 12, 2024, 8:59 pm
Netanyahu to Iranians: Another attack on Israel would ‘cripple’ Iran’s economy
In second message within months, PM says regime fears its own citizens more than Israel; looks to future of blossoming ties, freedom and prosperity for Iranians
By Lazar Berman
A young woman crosses a main road in front of an anti-Israel and US billboard depicting an Israeli soldier receiving military supplies from the United States with a Farsi headline reading "the American Rabid Dog" in central Tehran's Valiasr Square on November 6, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
November 6, 2024, 4:56 pm
Iran sentences 4 people to death on charges of spying for Israel
Three defendants accused of aiding alleged Israeli assassination of nuclear scientist in 2020; fourth involved in unspecified espionage case
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Israeli F-16 fighter jets escort an American B-52 bomber through Israeli airspace on March 12, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 4, 2024, 1:31 pm
Iran slams ‘destabilizing presence’ as US sends B-52 bombers to region
Tehran says it won’t be deterred, vows ‘definite and decisive’ response to Israeli airstrikes, but expresses support for ceasefire efforts in Gaza and Lebanon
By AFP
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter affiliated with the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP-Iran) stands guard on a building following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), 100Km east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on October 1, 2022. (Safin Hamid/AFP)
October 30, 2024, 8:59 pm
Iran claims to have killed member of separatist group with ties to Israel
State media outlets reports two other people arrested after infiltrating from Iraqi Kurdistan with plan to cause ‘riots, terror and insecurity’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses a meeting in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
October 27, 2024, 5:52 pm
Weakened by Israel, Iran seeks to save face without sparking a war it would likely lose
With its air defenses shaken, Tehran can’t afford a flare-up but doesn’t want to seem frail before its battered terror proxies, analysts say, noting the standoff is uncharted territory
By AP and ToI Staff
Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 27, 2024, 6:53 am
IDF strike cripples Iran’s missile production, disables air defenses; regime ‘alarmed’
Strikes reportedly render crucial energy sites vulnerable to future attacks, destroy fuel mixers used to make missiles that were fired at Israel; damage may take years to fix
By Michael Bachner, Reuters and ToI Staff
An IAF Boeing 707 refueling plane and several F-35 and F-15 fighter jets carry out a drill just off the coast of Israel, August 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 27, 2024, 2:10 am
Though limited, Israel’s highly successful attack leaves Iran more vulnerable than ever
With key air defenses disabled and Hezbollah weakened, Tehran knows the IAF could come back for more. That might prompt it to push for the bomb, and Israel to try to stop it
By Lazar Berman
US President Joe Biden walks to board Air Force One after speaking with reporters at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
October 26, 2024, 11:36 pm
Biden says Israel apparently only hit Iran military sites: ‘My hope is this is the end’
US seeks to maintain balance of backing Israel’s right to respond to Iranian attacks while avoiding regional escalation; Herzog hails US support while PM seems to downplay it
By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol
Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 26, 2024, 7:42 pm
Israel’s strike on Iran was ‘historic,’ but it’s not ‘the end’ of anything
The calibrated attacks aimed to expose the vulnerability of Iran’s air-defense systems, while building legitimacy, crucially with the US, for the inevitable rounds to come
By David Horovitz
Commuters drive past a billboard in Tehran depicting missiles strikes on Jerusalem and declaring 'Israel must be wiped off the face of the Earth,' covering the facade of a building in Tehran on October 26, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
October 26, 2024, 3:02 pm
Iran says it has ‘duty to defend itself’ after Israeli strikes, but doesn’t vow response
NYT: Israel hit secretive Parchin base, S-300 air defenses near Tehran airport; reports say Israel aimed to minimize casualties; Iran says 4 soldiers killed
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
An Iranian military truck carries missiles during a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 17, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
October 26, 2024, 12:45 pm
What Iran and Israel would wield in any long-range air war
A look at the enemies’ air forces and aerial defense systems as their conflict continues to escalate
By Reuters
US President Joe Biden (R) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) speak to reporters before participating in a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on July 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via AFP)
October 26, 2024, 11:10 am
After Israeli strikes, West urges Iran to stand down as Muslim nations slam Jerusalem
Washington says Islamic Republic must end ‘cycle of fighting,’ as official signals approval of Jerusalem’s ‘targeted and proportional’ response to Iran’s Oct. 1 missile attack
By ToI Staff, Agencies, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian
An unconfirmed image circulating on social media purports to show a site of an explosion in the Tehran area in the early hours of October 26, 2024, as Israel announces it is carrying out 'precise strikes' on Iranian military targets. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 26, 2024, 5:09 am
IDF hits military sites across Iran in hours-long attack, weeks after Iran’s missile barrage
Warplanes operate freely over skies of Islamic Republic in unprecedented op, with Israel saying it hit air defenses, key missile and drone sites, in response to ‘months of attacks’
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
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