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.
Iran's Foreign Minister says the US and some other Western governments are hampering efforts by the Islamic Republic to legally pursue the US assassination of Iran’s anti-terror icon Major general Qassem Soleimani.
Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised the country’s anti-terror icon Major General Qassem Soleimani for his efforts during his lifetime, saying his success in “breathing a new life into the axis of resistance was an outstanding and major achievement.”
Iran’s Army puts to test its advanced missile defense systems, which successfully intercepted and destroyed intruding aircraft on the third day of large-scale drills off the country’s southern coasts.
On the third day of the Zolfaqar 1401 joint drill in the Jask region and east of the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian Army successfully tested the Khordad 15 air defense missile system.
The Iranian Army begins large-scale military maneuvers involving various divisions of its forces in a zone spanning from the country’s southern ports and waters to the northern tip of the Indian Ocean.
Iran’s Army is set to start annual large-scale military drills featuring various divisions of its forces and strategic weapons across a zone stretching from the eastern side of the Hormuz Strait in the Persian Gulf to the northern part of the Indian Ocean.
The Iranian interior minister highlights the strategic significance of the country’s southeastern frontiers, saying the Tehran administration is pursuing an agenda to promote border diplomacy with neighboring Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced that the country's security forces have identified and arrested the members of four terror teams linked to the Israeli regime’s Mossad spy agency.
China’s Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua praises friendly ties and growing cooperation between the two states, reaffirming Beijing’s support for the Islamic Republic’s efforts to safeguard its territorial integrity.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman slams the United States for taking the occasion of Yalda Night celebrations to “shed crocodile tears” for the Iranian people while maintaining draconian economic pressure on the nation and supporting "violent riots" in the country.
Forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) deal a blow to a terrorist network involved in a bloody shooting attack in the southwestern city of Izeh in mid-November.
Major General Mohammad Baqeri, the chief of staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, has congratulated General Asim Munir on his appointment as Pakistan’s chief of Army Staff.
Four Iranian soldiers have been killed during a clash with armed men who had infiltrated from Pakistani soil in Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan Province.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry operatives have arrested members of a spy network who were planning to sabotage the country’s defense industry through front companies and security marketing.
Naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have seized a tanker carrying over 300,000 liters of smuggled fuel in the Persian Gulf water, a judicial official says.
Iranian Intelligence officials say those who assassinated a pro-government Sunni Muslim cleric in the country’s Sistan and Balouchestan Province are linked to an Arab country.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says those behind the assassination of a Sunni Muslim cleric in the country’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan have been arrested.
Iranian Minister of Defense Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has said that Kiev has offered no documents for what it claims to be Russia’s use of Iranian military equipment, specifically Tehran-made drones, in the Ukraine war.
The chief commander of the Navy of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says extra-regional countries will seize Iran’s three Persian Gulf islands, to which Arab regimes lay claim, only over the dead body of the country’s Armed Forces.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned as baseless allegations in the final communiqué issued at the 43rd session of the Supreme Council of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
