Security

Two senior military and police commanders of Iran have travelled to Islamabad to hold negotiations with Pakistani counterparts and officials.

There is evidence that proves elements who raided a police station in northern Tehran Monday in apparent support for the dervish community were being supported by foreign governments, a senior judicial official said.

Iran and the Azerbaijan Republic have agreed to work together to jointly produce military equipment.

Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli decried a recent attack on security forces in northern Tehran by members of the Gonabadi Dervishes, a Sufi community in Iran, and said all those behind the incident would be dealt with “decisively”.

Azeri President Ilham Aliyev says his government embraces greater collaboration between Tehran and Baku, particularly in defence industries.

Iran’s president says all ideologies are respected, but violence by any group or entity, especially acts of violence and insult against police and security forces, are definitely condemned.

Iran’s defence minister has arrived in Azerbaijan’s Baku at the head of a high-ranking delegation to explore ways of broadening defence collaboration between the two countries.

Two Qatari vessels encroaching upon Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf have been seized.

A senior Iranian commander has referred to the failure of US-made missile defence systems in countering minor attacks on the US allies in the Middle East, saying they won’t help their owners when they are targeted by hundreds of missiles.

The Iranian Navy’s 50th flotilla of warships berthed at Sri Lanka’s port of Colombo on Friday morning.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says his cell phone grew as hot as an iron during the negotiations with six world powers on Tehran’s nuclear program which resulted in the conclusion of the Iran nuclear deal.

The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has hailed the peaceful coexistence among Iranian Shia and Sunni Muslims, saying all plots hatched by enemies to undermine national unity and solidarity in the country have been thwarted.

Ten exchange facilities have been closed down and 90 foreign currency dealers arrested in a police raid in Tehran aimed at controlling the surging forex rates mainly caused by non-economic factors.

A former chief of staff of Iran’s Armed Forces says the enemy may use reptiles as well as individuals under the guise of tourists and scientists for espionage.  

Iran has managed to promote its military capabilities in spite of the US sanctions, and is now capable enough of targeting America’s bases in the region, said the IRGC Lieutenant Commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) hailed Iran as the most powerful country in the West Asia region and said the Islamic Republic will never allow the enemy to undermine its defense capabilities, including the missile power.

Iran has inaugurated the mass production line of a new tactical unmanned aerial vehicle, which is armed with a precision-guided bomb.

Iranian security forces have shot at and wounded a man who was trying to illegally enter the Iranian president’s office while carrying a machete and wearing a shroud.

The number of flights crossing Iran’s sky has increased by three times over the past years thanks to the country’s airspace security, said the Commander of the Iranian Army's Khatam al-Anbia Air Defence Base.

Iran’s intelligence forces have seized a huge drug haul in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan province.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has reiterated that the Islamic Republic will increase its defence capabilities as far as there are new threats by its enemies.

The underground missile facilities of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps are invulnerable to all sorts of hostile attacks, IRGC Lieutenant Commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami said, noting that not all projectiles are stockpiled inside the missile cities.

Four vessels with 16 crew members that had illegally entered the Iranian waters have been apprehended and handed over to officials.

A senior Iranian cleric says the Islamic Republic of Iran will not allow any foreign meddling in its missile program.

Iran’s highest-ranking military commander rejected any foreign interference in the country’s missile program, stressing that the Armed Forces will keep boosting defence capabilities and deterrent power.