Latest Security News in Iran – Defence and military news, including stories from neighbouring states and the troubled region which might be important for Iran. This section contains news on the Armed Forces, the IRGC, intelligence services, and border guards.
Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence, has dismissed reports claiming that Tehran has supplied Moscow with ballistic missiles for use in the Ukraine war.
Iranian law enforcement forces have apprehended a Pakistani terrorist in the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iranian Hormozgan province, police announced.
Iran’s Navy has dispatched its domestically designed and manufactured Dena destroyer to India to participate in the Milan 2024 multinational naval drills. The exercises hosted by New Delhi will feature over 50 countries, including the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Vietnam, and Indonesia, as well as Iran, Russia, Yemen, Qatar, and Iraq.
The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says the country’s deterrence has created a ‘stable shield for the national security and national defense’, asserting that the Iranian armed forces seriously deal even with smallest threats.
The Iranian police spokesman announced that the force has detained two individuals for involvement in a terrorist attack last December on a police headquarters in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has expressed Tehran’s readiness for negotiations with Saudi Arabia about defense cooperation.
Iran’s Judiciary Spokesman Masoud Setayeshi says authorities have so far arrested 35 people in connected with the January twin bombings that killed dozens in the southern Iranian city of Kerman.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has successfully fired a long-range ballistic missile from one of its warships, the commander-in-chief of the IRGC has stated.
The 94th battle group of the Iranian Navy under the command of the Alborz Destroyer docks in southern Iran after a 91-day mission during which the warships sailed more than 12 thousand kilometers.
About 20,000 undocumented Afghan migrants in Iran have been detained and sent back to their home country by Iranian security forces during the past two weeks, the border guards commander of the Khorasan Razavi Province, neighboring Afghanistan, says.
Iranian police forces have arrested a militant with the Daesh terrorist group and an agent of the so-called Ansar al-Furqan terrorist organization in Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran, according to the spokesman of the police force.
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali-Akbar Ahmadian has stressed Tehran’s commitment to the security and stability of Iraq in an official visit to the neighboring country.
Military forces from Iran, Russia and China are going to stage a joint naval drill in the coming weeks, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani stated on Monday.
A senior advisor to Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has rejected former US president Donald Trump’s claim, recently repeating that Iran intentionally avoided targeting a US base in Iraq in January 2020 in retaliation for the assassination of top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani.
President Ebrahim Raisi says Iran will not start any war, but if any country or ‘oppressive force’ acts as a bully, the Islamic Republic will give a tough response.
An Iranian military advisor with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus early Friday, according to reports.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry says it has identified dozens of anti-Iran spies linked to the Israeli espionage agency, Mossad, in 28 countries across the world.
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency says it has obtained information that shows Britain has not only allowed the anti-Iran MKO terrorist group to operate on its soil with a special permission, but it has also turned a blind eye to the group’s engagement in narco-trafficking.
