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 chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the United States never stops hatching plots against Iran, but the great Iranian nation has thwarted all the conspiracies through vigilance.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the guards’ ground force is now a strong bulwark of security against the enemies of God and Islam.
Chief of Staff of Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri and Defense Minister of Tajikistan Sherali Mirzo, in a meeting in Dushanbe on Monday, called for enhanced mutual cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has said Iran’s Islamic establishment is firmly resolved to push the country toward development.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry says its forces have arrested two individuals of unspecified European nationality who had been dispatched to Iran to provoke unrest.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted and successfully destroyed bases of terrorist groups active near the country’s western border in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
The commander of the Iranian Navy says the force is at the forefront of defending the Islamic Republic of Iran and maintains a presence 2,000 kilometers into opens seas to safeguard the country’s interests.
According to Tehran-based Eslahatpress website, the defense attorney of Ahmadreza Jalali, a Swedish-Iranian national convicted of spying for Israel, says they are told that the ruling for his execution will surely be carried out.
Russia’s ambassador to Iran Levan Dzhagaryan has underlined the necessity of expansion of ties with Tehran, stressing there is no obstacle to mutual armaments cooperation.
Iran will carry out the execution of Ahmadreza Jalali, a Swedish-Iranian national convicted of spying for Israel by May 21, media reports say, after his execution was approved by the Supreme Court of Iran.
The son of retired employee of the Iranian judiciary Hamid Nouri, who is being tried by a Swedish court, says his father has faced a grossly unfair trial.
Iran’s Nour News website, affiliated with the country’s Supreme National Security Council, has rejected as a “preposterous fabricated story” a report by BBC Persian claiming the Zionist regime’s spy agency Mossad interrogated a member of Iran’s Quds Force on the Islamic Republic soil.
The family of an Iranian national on trial in Sweden for alleged rights abuses has issued a statement to protest what they call the unfair proceedings.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the United States is using Daesh terrorists to create insecurity in Afghanistan as part of an ethnic-religious plot.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in a phone conversation with the acting Afghan foreign minister, has expressed concern over the security of Iran’s diplomatic missions in Afghanistan.
The spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has said MPs on Saturday asked questions from the interior minister regarding the security of borders and also the recent events along the country’s border with Afghanistan.
