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.
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).
An Iranian official revises the death toll from a spate of terrorist attacks that rocked the southeastern city of Zahedan in late September to 35, up from 19.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced it has foiled an assassination attempt against the Friday Prayers leader of Mashhad, Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda.
The deputy chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards (IRGC) says Iran has arrested spies working for Israel and will continue to do so, and that the agents will face punishment for their actions.
Iranian Army Chief Abdolrahim Mousavi has warned the Zionist regime against attacking Iran, saying the Zionist regime will be destroyed in case of attacking Iran.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry says its forces have dismantled a number of “operational cells” affiliated with the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group, which were active in a number of Iranian provinces.
The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it could be said almost with certainty that Iran has achieved all the cutting-edge military technologies that exist in the world today.
Iran’s top military commander highlights the country’s efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in the defense sector, saying the Islamic Republic has 39 years of experience in designing and manufacturing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has busted a foreign-linked network that planned to carry out counter-security operations in Iran’s central Markazi Province.
The chairman of Iran’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has warned the US forces in the Persian Gulf against taking any hostile action against the Islamic Republic.
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said the Persian Gulf region enjoys complete safety. He added the presence of foreign naval forces in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz has diminished remarkably with the Iranian military units projecting power across the region.
The US says Washington intends to focus on “Tehran’s arms deliveries to Russia” and the ongoing demonstrations in Iran and not on resuming talks on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley revealed in an interview with the Bloomberg.
A security body run by the Iranian Interior Ministry says 200 people have lost their lives in the recent wave of protests and riots that have gripped several cities in the country over the past two months.
