Iran

This update is the first of at least three CTP-ISW Iran Updates over the next 24 hours that will cover the Iran-Israel war. The recent Israeli strikes are a rapidly evolving situation, and no single individual or organization will have complete information at this time, including the states involved. Some …

Iran’s Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami was killed in an Israeli military strike on Tehran on Friday, reports Iranian media. The commander of the IRGC was killed in a strike that the Israeli regime carried out in the early hours of Friday, June 13. …

Le ministère iranien du Renseignement a révélé s’être fourni des documents essentiels sur le programme nucléaire secret d’Israël. Cette arme permet à Tel-Aviv de dominer l’ensemble du Moyen-Orient depuis un demi-siècle, tout en accusant l’Iran – qui ne l’a pas – de vouloir le concurrencer. Même si Israël n’est pas …

The U.S. military is helping intercept missiles that Iran fired in retaliation at Israel, a U.S. official says. The U.S. has been moving assets nearer to Israel to assist in missile intercepts and to provide better protection of U.S. bases in the region. While the official did not say how …

Latest Developments IDF Strikes Targets Across Iran: Israel launched multiple waves of strikes against Iranian targets associated with the regime’s nuclear program in the early hours of June 13. Announcing the operation, dubbed “Rising Lion,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described it as “a targeted military operation to roll back …

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has exposed a new, highly clandestine nuclear weapons program codenamed the “Kavir Plan” (Desert Plan), revealing the Iranian regime’s intensified and duplicitous push to acquire an atomic bomb. In a press conference held at its Washington, D.C. office on June 10, 2025, …

Israel launched wide scale strikes against Iran on Friday, saying it targeted nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders and that this was the start of a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon. Iran had launched about 100 drones towards Israeli territory in retaliation, which …

Iran continues to signal that it will reject the recent US nuclear proposal. The United States recently sent a proposal to Iran that would require Iran to halt all uranium enrichment on Iranian soil after the establishment of a regional nuclear consortium.[i] Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei criticized …

Russia continues to position itself as a mediator in the US-Iran nuclear negotiations. Russia’s mediation of the US-Iran talks would be very unlikely to secure US interests given Russia’s alignment with Iran. US President Donald Trump stated on June 4 that Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to “participate” in the …

Iran rejected a US demand to end uranium enrichment as nuclear talks hit a wall and military action could come next The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has rejected a US call to end uranium enrichment as nuclear talks reach an impasse, raising the risk of military confrontation. …