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 security chief held a meeting with a group of lawmakers to brief them on the latest developments in the Vienna talks aimed at securing a removal of the US sanctions against the country and revitalizing the 2015 nuclear agreement.
A top Iranian military official says Iran is after boosting defense cooperation with Iraq, stressing that regional dynamics call for increased joint work.
Iranian security forces have arrested a female terrorist who planned to carry out a terrorist suicide bombing at a mourning ceremony during the ongoing month of Muharram near the Pakistani border.
Iran’s top military official hails the country’s numerous defense achievements and says the defense sector is a multi-faceted industry that can facilitate progress in a series of other fields, such as medicine, nuclear program, and cyber security, among other things.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has strongly condemned the Zionist regime’s attacks on Gaza that has left a number resistance commanders and fighters as well as civilians dead in the region.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’ Quds Force says the United States and Israel are ‘treacherous and murderous regimes’ and would get the answers to the crimes they have committed ‘in the shortest time’.
Iran’s defense ministry has experienced a 2.5-fold increase in its non-military products and services to the private and industrial sectors from the beginning of the current Iranian year (started on March 21), according to official figures cited by the defense minister.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says its forces have arrested 10 members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group linked to the Israeli regime, who were planning to carry out terror attacks against the mourning rituals marking the anniversary of the third Shia Imam’s martyrdom across the country.
The commander of the Iranian Army’s Air Defense Force praises the role of the unit under his watch in safeguarding the country’s skies, saying the Islamic Republic’s air defenses do not allow any intruding aircraft to violate its airspace.
Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi has said that Afghan authorities should direct the country’s border guards to observe security considerations. This follows a brief armed clash between Iran and Afghan forces along the borders.
Iran’s deputy interior minister for security affairs says the Taliban officials should make sure Afghan border guards know the geographical limits and frontiers of the country, to prevent tensions that flare against the will of both sides.
The ringleader of a terrorist cell calling itself Movement of Nadhal has confessed that the Swedish government and security officials of the European country, support him.
The commander of the aerospace division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the space sector is extremely significant and a key ground for progress in other fields, stressing that Iran is now advancing quickly in the field of aerospace industries.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says its forces have arrested a Swedish national on charges of espionage, after keeping the individual under surveillance during the foreign citizen’s several trips to the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s Navy commander responds to the Israeli army chief’s comments on the Islamic Republic’s increasing military presence in the Red Sea, saying the country will definitely be present not just in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean but anywhere else that it wishes or deems necessary.
Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib says Iran is fully aware of all hostile activities against the Islamic Republic and will take revenge on those providing support to enemies of the nation and paving the way for acts of terror in Iran.
