Mideast Crisis

Reviving the so-called maximum pressure campaign on Iran will likely define US President Donald Trump’s strategy toward Washington's arch-foe in the Middle East from day one, Middle East policy expert Patrick Clawson told Iran International.

The resignation of Israel’s military chief has drawn reactions from senior leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who framed it as a weakening of the Israeli government after October 7.

Israel’s president and Iran’s vice president exchanged sharp words this week at Davos, with Isaac Herzog dismissing Mohammad Javad Zarif as powerless, prompting a fiery response in which the Iranian official called Herzog a “nobody.”

US President Donald Trump is set to list Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), Al-Arabiya English reported citing officials familiar with the matter.

Iran is taking advantage of the ruling Palestinian Authority's lack of political legitimacy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to arm militants, the director of a leading research center in Ramallah told Iran International.

Iran has not been weakened by over a year of Mideast combat with Israel, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in some of his first remarks after Donald Trump returned to the White House, daring so-called enemies to test Tehran's mettle.

Days after the ceasefire in Gaza, Israel launched a major operation in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday to quash what it described as Iranian-backed terrorist groups in Jenin.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog said on Tuesday that the new US administration will address Iran and its nuclear program as a key priority.

Saudi Arabia's top diplomat used his speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, to warn against a possible war between Middle East arch enemies Iran and Israel.

President Donald Trump told hostage families he would have deprived Iran of the money to aid the Oct. 7 attack, putting the Mideast crisis at the center of his first rally since being sworn in on Monday.

Iran's regional position is under significant strain, with its air defenses destroyed and key allies isolated, according to Mike Waltz, the incoming national security adviser for the Trump administration.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday his country has "hurt the entire Iranian axis and it can still do more."

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday underlined Tehran's "steadfast" stance in supporting the Resistance Front against Israel.

A ceasefire deal announced this week between Israel and Hamas signals a defeat for the Palestinian militant group's main backer Iran, a former hostage in Tehran who also influenced the ceasefire negotiations told Iran International.

A CIA employee accused of leaking classified information regarding Israel's October plans to attack Iran pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of willfully retaining and sharing national defense information, according to the US Department of Justice.

Israel has no justification to keep its forces inside a UN-demarcated buffer zone inside Syria now that Iran and its allied groups have been banished from the country, de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday.

Iraq is seeking to convince Iran-backed armed factions in the country to lay down their weapons or join the official security forces, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told Reuters in an interview.