4 month agoPer @USTreasury, Iran' network of exchange houses & companies in HongKong UAE & Marshall Islands moved moved hundreds of millions for dollars’ worth of revenue from oil sales, currency exchangesThe money is then used to procure/develop drones & other weaponry
4 month agoUS looking to undercut Iran's “shadow banking” networkPer @USTreasury, Washington's sanctioned 50 entities, individuals used by Iran's military & IRGC "to gain illicit access to the international financial system & process the equivalent of billions of dollars since 2020"
Israeli Defense Minister: The U.S. administration must prevent Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon
US Secretary of Defense: The Israeli people face a real threat from Iran
US Treasury: Imposing sanctions on entities linked to the Iranian Ministry of Defense
Washington imposes new sanctions on Iran
Head of the European Union delegation to the United Nations: We are concerned about Iran's lack of cooperation with the Atomic Energy Agency
Head of the European Union delegation to the United Nations: Diplomacy is the best way to ensure the purely peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program
U.S.'s representative to the United Nations: Iran continues to fuel conflict and instability in the Middle East
Deputy US envoy to the Security Council: Iran must make more efforts to prevent escalation
The European Union imposes sanctions on a research center affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Turkish Armed Forces dispatched signal jamming systems to Idlib to prevent kamikaze drone attacks by the Assad government and Iranian militias.
4 month agoThe Islamic Republic's security forces have imposed movement restrictions against Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources confirmed to @IranIntl. The limitations were imposed after his return from a trip to northern Iran. Ahmadinejad, who's turned into a critic of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's policies in recent years, was recently barred from running for president for the third time in a row
4 month agoStrong explosion on Syrian border as an Iraqi ammo depot blew up. It happened in Um Al-Jiban, W. of Sinjar, few km from Syria
Ali Bagheri, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, met Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, in Doha
Iran's Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a football coach accused of sexually assaulting 8 boys. The early teens said he lured them to his house for training and harassed them. Some victims said they were forced into sexual relations with each other and blackmailed
Iranian Foreign Ministry: Tehran reserves the right to respond to Canada's decision to declare the Revolutionary Guard a "terrorist organization"
Canada classifies the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization
Washington Post: Indications that Iran is expanding work inside the Natanz facility, which could nearly triple the site's production of enriched uranium
4 month ago@NATO chief @jensstltenberg after talks with Blinken this afternoon: "Russia’s war in Ukraine is a brutal assault on a peaceful democratic nation. This war is propped up by China, North Korea, and Iran. They want to see the U.S. fail. They want to see NATO fail"
The US President's envoy warned the Israelis of the possibility that the war with Hezbollah would lead to a large-scale Iranian attack that would be difficult for Israel to confront.
Iran’s acting foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani arrives in the Kurdistan Region capital of Erbil
CENTCOM:Houthis Strike M/V Verbena in Gulf of Aden, USS Philippine Sea Medically Evacuates Injured Mariner. Today the Iranian-backed Houthis launched two anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM) into the Gulf of Aden. Both missiles struck M/V Verbena, a Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned, Polish-operated bulk cargo carrier. M/V Verbena most recently docked in Malaysia and was enroute to Italy carrying wood construction material
Kann News reports that the head of the Israeli Nationalsecurity council Tzachi Hanegbi and the minister for strategic affairs Ron Dermer will depart to the US next week to discuss with senior Biden administration affairs the possibility of an all out war with Hezbollah and the Iranian threat
Attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen are putting a dent in international shipping in the RedSea & GulfofAden per new report from @DefenseIntel Container shipping down 90% despite US, European efforts to blunt Houthi's missile & drone strikes
IAEA report on Iran seen by Reuters: Iran informed IAEA on June 9 and 10 that eight cascades each containing 174 IR-6 centrifuges would be installed at Fordow enrichment plant over the next 3-4 weeks
4 month agoIran’s acting foreign minister met Iraq’s foreign minister in Baghdad
Iraqi Foreign Minister: Expanding the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is a danger to the entire region
Khamenei's military advisor: The people must elect a president who does not speak in contrast to the leader
On Iran-"The president is prepared to take a whole range of actions to to push back against Iranian aggression in every theater" per @JakeSullivan46 Tehran's support for Hamas "something that we are working to try to choke off"
