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Iranian missiles are displayed by the armed forces as an anti-Trump banner declaring in English and Farsi, 'We will kill you,' is seen in a temporary exhibition at Azadi (Freedom) Square in Tehran, Iran, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
US dismisses Iran's talk of Hormuz 'exclusion zone'
Touting improved ballistic missile, Iran vows preemptive action against threats
By Agencies
Top Iranian official says new missile was 'tested' against US warship; UN nuclear watchdog head urges Tehran to cooperate as Western nations seek to refer it to Security Council
The sun sets over commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, with the city’s skyline in the background, September 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 7, 2026, 4:35 am
Iran says it will declare ‘prohibited zone’ near Strait of Hormuz in coming days
Hormuz traffic dips to lowest since May after US, Iran clashes; US energy secretary says there may not be a nuclear deal, but Iran’s ability to build bomb could be destroyed
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Motorbikes drive past a billboard depicting Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, handing the country’s flag to his son and successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, right, as the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stands at left, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 29, 2026, 11:20 am
6 months on, Iran’s leaders are defying the US and signaling no tolerance for dissent
With hard-liners consolidating power, Tehran is preparing for a prolonged confrontation as economic pressure mounts and divisions linger
By Lee Keath and David Rising
File: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during a welcome ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (Office of the Prime Minister of Pakistan via AP)
August 23, 2026, 5:49 pm
Iran’s president admits country faces ‘many problems,’ insists deal is best way forward
Pezeshkian says Tehran must escape state of ‘neither war nor peace’ as US preps fresh sanctions; new Iran security chief threatens Gulf oil routes, while Pakistan pushes mediation
By Agencies
Hezbollah leader Naem Qassem (left) and Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei as seen in an AI-generated video issued by Defense Minister Israel Katz on August 10, 2026. (X screenshot)
August 12, 2026, 4:48 pm
Our AI-generated defense minister emblemizes an Israeli leadership that refuses to face reality
Whatever Israel Katz may want to believe, Iran’s leaders are not cowering, and Israel will not defeat its enemies by endlessly blowing things up; Netanyahu should know better, but he’s in full-blown denial mode
By David Horovitz
Vehicles drive past a banner reading in English and Farsi, 'We will kill Trump,' and banners showing portraits of the late Iranian supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and his son Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, August 10, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
August 11, 2026, 10:09 pm
Iran digs in on demands over Hormuz as mediators assert progress made toward deal
Iranian official says strait won’t reopen unless US ends Gaza and Lebanon wars and releases frozen Iranian assets; Pakistan says sides ‘close to some sort of an arrangement’
By Agencies and Lazar Berman
Mohsen Rezaei, former commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was named on August 9, 2026, as the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, attends a ceremony at Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's shrine in southern Tehran, on June 4, 2026. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)
August 10, 2026, 4:07 am
Iran names new security chief who’s wanted by Interpol in connection with deadly AMIA bombing
Mohsen Rezaei, ex-IRGC chief, sought by Argentina for alleged role in 1994 attack on Jewish center that killed 85; he’s 2nd to lead Supreme National Security Council since Israel killed Larijani in March
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
January 11, 2022, 10:58 pm
Argentina fumes after Iranian AMIA bomb suspect spotted at Nicaragua ceremony
Mohsen Rezaei, one of five Iranians accused of being behind deadly 1994 bombing, attends Managua swearing-in for president Daniel Ortega, accused of rampant human rights violations
By Agencies
Ebrahim Raisi, a candidate in Iran's presidential elections waves to the media after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, June 18, 2021 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
June 19, 2021, 9:17 am
Hardliner Raisi wins Iran presidency in landslide, amid record-low voter turnout
Ultraconservative ‘executioner’ gets 62% of the vote, far ahead of rivals; without naming cleric, Rouhani says his successor has been elected
By Agencies
This combination of four photos shows candidates for the June 18, 2021, Iranian presidential elections from left to right; Abdolnasser Hemmati, Mohsen Rezaei, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Ebrahim Raisi. (AP Photo)
June 18, 2021, 10:20 am
Who are the candidates in Iran’s presidential election?
From a hardline cleric close to Supreme Leader Khamenei to a former leader of Iran’s IRGC, Iranian voters head to the polls to elect the country’s next leader
By AP
Mohsen Rezaei (MEMRI screenshot)
May 4, 2020, 10:57 am
Top Iran official renews threat to ‘raze Israeli cities’ amid friction with US
In Al-Jazeera interview, Mohsen Rezaei of nation’s Expediency Council reiterates conspiracy theory that coronavirus may have been created by US to target Islamic Republic
By ToI Staff
Former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
February 11, 2020, 6:43 am
Top Iranian official: We’re looking for a pretext to raze Tel Aviv to the ground
Former leader of Revolutionary Guards also says Tehran has ‘precise information’ on all US military and civilian activity in the region, from ships to individual soldiers
By ToI Staff
Iranian former chief of the Revolutionary Guards Mohsen Rezai takes part in a demonstration against American 'crimes' in the capital Tehran, January 3, 2020. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
January 5, 2020, 8:31 pm
Ex-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards says Haifa, Tel Aviv are targets
As tensions continue to skyrocket, top politician Mohsen Rezaei alleges Israel leaked information on Soleimani’s whereabouts to US forces
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Mohsen Rezaei (MEMRI screenshot)
September 28, 2019, 11:55 am
Top Iranian official: We’ll catch Trump, put him on trial
Former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaei mocks Washington’s lack of response to drone downing: ‘They cannot defend themselves, so how would they defend Saudi Arabia?’
By ToI Staff
Hassan Yousef Zabeeb, left, and Yasser Ahmad Daher, two Hezbollah members killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria to thwart a plot to launch armed drones into Israel, seen flying to Iran from Lebanon in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 26, 2019, 6:01 am
IDF says 2 Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria strike trained in Iran for attack
Hassan Yousef Zabeeb and Yasser Ahmad Daher traveled to Islamic Republic multiple times and worked under IRGC Quds Force, military says
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF footage of what the army says are Iranian operatives attempting to launch an explosives-laden drone into northern Israel from a Syrian border town on August 22, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 25, 2019, 8:17 pm
IDF footage shows pro-Iranian fighters trying to launch armed drone at Israel
Army says Iranian-trained team in Syria attempted to launch explosive UAV from border town last Thursday, but Israeli troops ‘confused’ them and prevented the attack
By Judah Ari Gross
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