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.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry says its forces have detained 26 people — all foreign nationals — in connection with a bloody terror attack at a holy shrine in Shiraz late last month, identifying the gunman who carried out the carnage as a citizen from Tajikistan.
The governor of Kermanshah Province, in Iran’s west, says 500 assault weapons and ammunition have been discovered and confiscated during “recent riots.”
A terrorist attack has targeted a military site in Mahshahr, in Iran’s southern Khouzestan Province, and a hit and sabotage squad has been disbanded in the same province, Iranian security sources say.
Iranian intelligence forces say they have detained three members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group in the south-central city of Shiraz, where they planned to carry out acts of sabotage.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s chief commander says enemies are well aware that Iran will take revenge for a deadly terror attack on a holy shrine in Shiraz, which hit amid a wave of US-backed riots in the country, and that they are now on the back foot for fear of an Iranian action.
Forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the western border city of Ilam have dismantled a counter-security ring involved in making explosives and hand-made bombs to be used in riots.
A group of former Iranian diplomats have warned the government against leaving the talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal inconclusive, urging the authorities to make a set of foreign policy revisions.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says it has identified and arrested seven individuals who had been involved in the terrorist attack in Shah Cheragh Shrine in Shiraz.
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib announced that a second suspect was arrested on Sunday night over ties to the deadly shooting at the Shah Cheragh Shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, which left 13 dead and dozens wounded.
The naval forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have seized a foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf region for smuggling of 11 million liters of fuel.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the Zionist regime and reactionary forces cannot hide behind the mask of the Daesh terrorist group and anti-Iran Saudi-funded media based in London, holding them responsible for the recent deadly unrest in Iran.
The Iranian intelligence forces have arrested three members of a terrorist group in Iran’s southwestern Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province who were planning an act of sabotage in the country, according to news outlets.
A top Iranian military commander says the United States, the Israeli regime and Saudi Arabia are behind the recent conspiracies in Iran, reiterating that the Islamic Republic “will take revenge for all the riots and acts of terror in the country.”
In a first-ever joint statement, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have shed light on multiple aspects of the role played by the “mafia regime” in the US in devising a multi-dimensional plot for instigating riots in the Islamic Republic and directing the wave of violence.
Iranian intelligence forces thwarted a terrorist bomb explosion on a crowded street in Shiraz, arresting the element planning to denote the explosives, media reports said on Friday, two days after a deadly armed attack against a holy shrine in the southern city.
Security forces in Iran’s West Azarbaijan Province have confiscated 80 weapons of war and hunting arms from a number of elements planning to destabilize the northwestern region.
The Iranian Army says it is resolved to avenge the blood of the martyrs of a terror attack at a Shia shrine in the city of Shiraz, and that it stands prepared to crush the enemies with “an iron fist” in any location.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the perpetrators of a fatal terrorist attack at a holy shrine in Shiraz will definitely face punishment, urging everyone to join hands in the face of enemies and their agents.
The Iranian president has expressed condolences on the deadly terror attack on a holy shrine in southern Iran, saying the perpetrators will regret having committed the crime.
Sporadic clashes are reported in the western Iranian city of Saqqez, Kordestan Province, as thousands of people gathered to mark 40 days since the death of 22-year-old local, Mahsa Amini, whose death led to widespread unrest and deadly riots in Iran.
Two members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have been shot dead by unknown assailants in Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
