Iran says it killed three for smuggling equipment to Israel
Iran executed three men this morning, after they were convicted of collaborating with Israel’s Mossad spy agency and smuggling equipment used in an assassination, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported.
Edris Aali, Azad Shojaei, and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul were executed at Urmia Prison for “spreading corruption on earth and moharebeh (enmity against God) through collaboration with hostile foreign governments in the Zionist regime’s interest”, the report said.
The three were convicted of shipping equipment used in the assassination of one unnamed personality, according to the report.
“They hid the assassination tools in a shipment of alcohol, which ultimately led to the killing of a notable figure,” Mizan added.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar25 June 2025 05:22
In pics: Israeli residential building destroyed in Iranian airstrike
Israel Hit With Missile Barrage After Trump Announces Impending Iran-Israel Ceasefire (Getty Images)
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Alisha Rahaman Sarkar25 June 2025 05:18
What Trump’s f-bomb rage really says about his relationship with Netanyahu
Such a public display of unfettered fury by an American president is extraordinary and perhaps unparalleled.
Standing on the South Lawn of the White House, a crowd of journalists had just asked Donald Trump about Israel and Iran’s violations of the ceasefire he had just proudly declared on social media.
Leaning in, a furious Trump spat out that the two nations had been fighting “for so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing”.
In the moments before, he had repeated four times in the space of a few minutes that he was displeased with Israel – the US’s closest ally in the Middle East region, if not the world.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar25 June 2025 05:13
Britain, France and Germany say Iran must come to negotiating table
Prime minister Keir Starmer, along with his French and German counterparts, said it was “time for diplomacy” after the shaky ceasefire between Israel and Iran commenced yesterday.
Sir Keir met with French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Nato summit in The Hague.
“The leaders reflected on the volatile situation in the Middle East,” Sir Keir’s office said in a statement following the meeting.
“Now was the time for diplomacy and for Iran to come to the negotiating table, they agreed.”
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar25 June 2025 04:56
Trump lashes out over intelligence report leak on Iran airstrikes
President Donald Trump has lashed out at American media over the leaked intelligence report that suggested the US airstrikes did not destroy the nuclear program in Iran.
“FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY,” the US president ranted on Truth Social.
“THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC,” Mr Trump claimed.
Citing four people briefed on the initial assessment produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), CNN reports that the strikes likely only set Iran’s nuclear ambitions back by months.
The DIA, the Pentagon’s intelligence agency, based its assessment on battle damage analysis carried out by US Central Command after the strikes on Saturday night, according to one source who spoke with CNN.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar25 June 2025 04:26
Ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to hold
The sky over Israel and Iran fell silent on Tuesday night as the fragile ceasefire between the two nations appeared to hold after initially faltering.
But even as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Israel had brought Iran’s nuclear program “to ruin”, a new US intelligence report found that the program has been set back only a few months following American airstrikes.
After the truce was supposed to take effect yesterday, Israel accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace, and the Israeli finance minister vowed that “Tehran will tremble”.
The Iranian military denied firing on Israel, state media reported, but explosions boomed and sirens sounded across northern Israel in the morning.
Mr Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for a Nato summit that, in his view, both sides had violated the nascent agreement.
He had particularly strong words for Israel, a close ally, while suggesting Iran may have fired on the country by mistake.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar25 June 2025 04:14
Iran will not abandon its nuclear technology, says minister
Iran will not abandon its nuclear technology despite the recent US and Israeli strikes, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said.
“We have made tremendous efforts to achieve this technology, and our scientists have made enormous sacrifices, even losing their lives for this goal,” Mr Araghchi told New Arab website.
“Our people have endured sanctions for this, and a war was imposed on our nation over this issue. No one in Iran will abandon this technology.”
“I imagine that our outlook on the nuclear program and the non-proliferation regime will undergo changes, though I cannot yet determine their direction,” he said, when asked whether Iran would reconsider its stance toward the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar25 June 2025 04:03
Iran executes three for spying for Israel
Iran has executed three men for allegedly spying for Israel’s intelligence unit Mossad, according to the Iranian judiciary’s news agency, Mizan.
Since Israel’s 13 June attack on Iran, Tehran has reportedly executed multiple people suspected of spying for Tel Aviv.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar25 June 2025 04:02
Pictured: Damage from Iranian missile strikePeople walk through a building where four people were killed by an Iranian missile strike (Getty Images)
People walk past a damaged shop next to a building where four people were killed by an Iranian missile strike (Getty Images)
Rebecca Whittaker25 June 2025 04:00
JD Vance celebrates Iran bombing victory during home state visit
Vice President JD Vance visited his home state of Ohio Tuesday evening, making a keynote speech at the Ohio Republican Party Dinner in Lima.
During his remarks, Vance celebrated the U.S. striking three of Iran’s nuclear sites over the weekend, which was the culmination of a conflict between Israel, America’s biggest ally in the Middle East, and Iran over its advancing pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Vance recalled what the president told him in the Situation Room a few days ago.
“Mr. Vice President, you don’t have to call him the supreme leader, but you would if the guy had a nuclear weapon,” Vance recalled Trump telling him of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Vance continued in his own words: “Because the leverage that nuclear weapons give you to destabilize the world, to destroy our economic interests, to destroy our national security interests — you don’t want the worst people in the world to have a nuclear weapon.”
There has been some division among Trump’s Make America Great Again base, as some have criticized the president for getting involved in a foreign conflict.
In response to these critiques, Vance explained Trump’s thinking in what he calls the “Trump Doctrine.”
“Number one, you articulate a clear American interest, and that’s, in this case, that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. Number two, you try to aggressively, diplomatically, solve that problem. And number three, when you can’t solve it diplomatically, you use overwhelming military power to solve it and then you get the hell out of there before it ever becomes a protracted conflict,” he said.
Rachel Dobkin25 June 2025 03:30