Reuters US President Donald Trump is considering whether to join Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, as the conflict continues for a sixth day and angry rhetoric ramps up between all sides. American strikes could involve using superior weaponry to hit an underground nuclear site at Fordo, according to five sources who spoke to the...
The Trump administration has begun sending warning flares to Iran that might equal some in Tehran’s skyline these days about their future if they do not give up their nuclear ambitions. First, Donald Trump himself took a cease-fire off the table while Iran refuses to concede. Now J.D. Vance has followed that up with a...
EPA With Israel’s airspace closed, some people are trying to leave via land crossings to Egypt and Jordan Thousands of Britons are stranded in Israel and unable to leave, as Iran and Israel continue to attack each other in an intensifying conflict that has been ongoing for days. The Israeli airspace is closed until further...
A sudden collapse of the Iranian regime looks like a real possibility. As far as I know, the Israelis have no plans to take out Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, but they are systematically dismantling the pillars of state power underneath him. The Ayatollahs are on the run, and the generation that put them into...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Israel bombed the Iranian state TV building in Tehran during a live broadcast on Monday, seemingly devastating the building as Israeli military officials falsely touted attacks on...
Videos posted on social media show queues for fuel and gridlocked traffic as people try to leave the Iranian capital Tehran. Israel began launching strikes on Iran four days ago, saying it was targeting the country’s nuclear programme. Iran’s health ministry reports that at least 224 people have been killed. BBC journalists are unable to...
The intense fighting between Israel and Iran continues, four days after Israel launched strikes on Iran. Iran hit Israel with a wave of missiles overnight, with some penetrating the Iron Dome defence system – the number killed in Israel since Friday has risen to 24. The BBC’s Hugo Bachega is in Petah Tikva, where an...
It took longer than expected, but Iran finally gained enough control over its missile system to launch an attack on Israel. “Dozens” of ballistic missiles got fired in two separate volleys from Iranian territory, and some of them managed to get past the Israeli defense systems. The volleys came after Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei...
Kasra Naji, BBC Persian & Alys Davies, BBC News AFP/Getty Israel struck dozens of targets, including nuclear facilities, military sites and private residences, across Iran on Friday, killing a number of senior military commanders in what it called “Operation Rising Lion”. The Israeli attacks also targeted a number of other influential figures linked to Iran’s...
We are pleased to present this guest essay from Robert G. Joseph, Special Envoy for Nuclear Non-Proliferation under George W. Bush, and Robert Toricelli, former Democrat Senator from New Jersey. As always, the opinions expressed by the guest author do not necessarily represent those of Hot Air or Townhall Media. Â Bipartisan Agreement: Â Iran’s Future,...
This is quite something (although the music is obnoxious beyond belief). Police have arrested 8 people, 7 of whom are Iranians, over a suspected terrorist plot. I wonder what excuses they will come up with so they don’t get deported ? pic.twitter.com/A7xXEQhO20 — WeGotitBack ???????????????????????????????????????????? (@NotFarLeftAtAll) May 4, 2025 What makes it even more interesting...
Video shows counter-terrorism officers making an arrest Five men are continuing to be questioned by police over an alleged terror plot in the UK. The men, including four Iranian nationals, are being held over an alleged plan to “target a specific premises”, the Metropolitan Police said. They were arrested in Swindon, west London, Stockport, Rochdale...
Tasnim News Agency State media released a picture of Shahram Dabiri and his wife, superimposing a marker on the name of the ship to the South Pole, Plancius Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has fired one of his deputies for taking a “lavish” trip to Antarctica with his wife during Nowruz, the Persian new year. The...
Trevor Lock, the policeman who was taken hostage in a siege on the Iranian embassy in 1980, has died aged 85, his daughter has confirmed. PC Lock was freed along with 24 other hostages after a six-day stand-off between members of a dissident Iranian group and the SAS. It later emerged he had tackled the...