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U.S. and Israels officials held secret talks on Iran last week to discuss a possible “plan B” if nuclear talks do not resume, two senior Israeli officials told Axios.

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has warned the nation’s adversaries that any aggression against the Islamic Republic will be met with an overwhelming response.

Washington has briefed Israel before, during and after different rounds of negotiations in Vienna about Iran's nuclear deal, State Department spokesman Ned Price says.

The Israeli military launched a combined aerial blitz using warplanes and armed drones against the Gaza Strip. The military says, the aircraft attacked an outpost belonging to the resistance groups in southern Gaza to the east of the city of Rafah.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the recently announced Taliban government in Afghanistan is serving in a caretaker capacity and is not what Iran and the international community expect.

Tel Aviv is not considering handing the Golan Heights over to the Damascus government, Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has called on the international community to make Israel join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) unconditionally.

A hacker has claimed to have stolen the personal information of around seven million Israelis by intercepting the website used by municipalities. If the claims are valid, the hack would be one of the most severe breaches of privacy in Israel’s history.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe into the crimes committed by Israel and extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied territories.

The Damascus government condemned Israel’s attacks on Syrian soil, stressing that the Tel Aviv regime’s ongoing acts of aggression will not affect its resolve in the fight against terrorism.

A senior Iranian military commander says the country’s military is waiting for a wrong move by the Israeli regime to destroy it.

Iran has warned the Israeli regime about its recent threat to use force against the Islamic Republic, saying Tel Aviv should be waiting for the repercussions of its moves.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blamed Israel for sabotaging Iran’s key Natanz nuclear site, vowing revenge for the Sunday morning’s attack.

Mohammad Masjed-Jamei, a scholar of religion and a former diplomat, has weighed in on the impact of evangelical Christianity on the US politics and the country’s foreign policy, especially during the tenure of President Donald Trump.

Senior Arab diplomatic sources say Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman could meet Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of a potential summit in Cairo that follows US President Donald Trump's unveiling of a controversial plan for the Middle East.

Iran’s ambassador to France has mocked the US president’s new plan for the Middle East and Palestine, saying the so-called deal of the century cannot even be called the deal of a second.

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri has called on the Islamic nations to join hands and raise their voices against a “cruel” plan that the US president has unveiled for Palestine, known as deal of the century.

The Iranian president has warned against the US and Israeli policies to relegate the issue of Palestine to oblivion.

There are speculations that a top Israeli official, perhaps Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has visited Riyadh after revelations that a privately-owned Challenger 604 jet has taken off from Tel Aviv and landed in the Saudi capital.

After 20 years, for the first time since being appointed as the Chief Commander of Quds brigade, General Soleimani was interviewed by Khamenei.ir. The following is the first part of the interview:

With over 95 percent of the vote counted, the right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties of Israel have failed to win enough seats for a parliamentary majority in the Knesset, marking a heavy defeat for Benjamin Netanyahu.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council praised the Lebanese Hezbollah for the Sunday’s attack on Israeli targets, saying the retaliatory operation attested to the resistance front’ determination to combat threats and destabilizing forces.

The “Deal of the Century” was orchestrated by the United States and Israel in order to remove Palestine from the geography of the world.

While the United Arab Emirates has been expressing willingness to ease tensions with Iran in recent weeks, the US news media suddenly disclosed secret meetings between the Emiratis and Israel. Now the question is why the Americans gave away such secret.

An Iranian political analyst has enumerated the reasons behind the Israeli regime’s willingness to get closer to Iraq, saying Tel Aviv’s main objective is to cut off Iran’s links with the axis of anti-Israel nations in the Middle East.