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Washington - UN nuclear inspectors say Iran is pressing ahead on a larger scale than ever with the uranium enrichment activities that Western powers suspect are aimed at developing a nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) made a short-notice inspection on Sunday of Iran's main nuclear facility in Natanz and found that all of its 1 300 centrifuges were up and running smoothly, producing nuclear fuel. The centrifuges "were producing fuel suitable for use in nuclear reactors", the US newspaper said, citing diplomats and nuclear experts in Vienna...

As they pounded the Iranian nuclear facilities yesterday, the Israelis were finally doing what so many Western leaders had expected they would do for years, if not decades. In fact, let us be honest: the rest of the world has not just been expecting this Israeli action. Secretly or openly, many governments have been hoping for it. In one astonishing operation the Israelis crippled the Natanz enrichment reactor and seriously damaged two others. They took out six of the most important Iranian nuclear scientists, as well as an astonishing array of the country’s top brass. They blew up radars and...

We're now receiving reports that there have been fresh explosions across Iran. The Israeli Air Force says in a post on X that it is continuing "to attack missile launchers and infrastructure" in Iran.

Israel targets Iran: IRGC, Iran military chiefs killed, Khamenei threatens revenge Tehran planning 'a harsh response,' Iranian security source says • IDF hits Natanz nuclear site • IDF attacks on Iran expected to continue 'for days at a time'. June 13, 7:24 AM Israel expecting Iranian response over coming hours ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF Israel is expecting retaliatory strikes from Iran to begin over the coming hours, Israeli media reported on Friday morning, citing defense assessments. June 13, 7:20 AM Iran can't have nuclear weapon, Trump says after Israeli strike By Reuters. US President Donald Trump said that Iran cannot have...

This weekend, the US and Iran will hold their first semi-direct talks in years, despite the previous insistence of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in barring such talks. What changed? First, the Iranian security situation has degraded rapidly over the last few months, thanks to their stupidity in attacking Israel directly as well as indirectly through their proxies. That has left the mullahs more exposed than ever before in their 46-year run as theocratic tyrants in Iran. That's not the only reason, the New York Times reports today. The Iranians may have finally realized that Donald Trump returned to office with the...

With talk of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities growing louder—and with President Trump set to take office once again—Iran today conducted major military drills around its Natanz nuclear site. Will 2025 be the year of reckoning for Iran’s nuclear program? And why is Israel set to start developing its own heavy bombs? Watch now!

Israel's response to Iran's missile barrage attack at the beginning of October will not be attacking its nuclear facilities but rather targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's military bases and intelligence sites, according to a Monday report from the New York Times citing officials. The report said while Israel would prefer to have US backing in its response, Biden and other US officials have said that strikes on nuclear facilities would be ineffective and "plunge the region into a full-scale war," the report said. However, the nuclear facilities as targets may come into consideration should Iran escalate with attacks of...

This sabotage operation is not the first one carried out at Iranian nuclear facilities. A workshop belonging to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in the Shadabad area of Tehran was set on fire in July 2020, information concealed until now by Iranian officials, according to Iran International who claimed to have viewed judicial documents relating to the arson. The documents confirmed that Iran believes the Mossad orchestrated the fire. The judicial documents were obtained as part of a trove that a network of hacktivists leaked to the source on Thursday. Some of the referenced Iranian government documents are among millions of...

All anyone can say with any certainty is that something very strange happened near the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear facility at Natanz this past Saturday evening. Disturbances at Natanz have become somewhat commonplace recently, with a major fire in July 2020, followed by an explosion in April 2021 that cut off power to the facility. Both of these episodes appeared to be deliberate sabotage designed to set back Iran’s nuclear program, either by Israel or another of Iran’s neighbors who has a much clearer view of what a nuclear Iran would mean for their region. Whatever went down Saturday...

NEWSRAEL: It is further reported that the failure of its air defense system at Natanz has got Iran in a fit and heads are about to roll... Updated Iranian sources revealed that unmanned aerial vehicles penetrated Iran's airspace because air defense systems were unable to shoot them down. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, more than five reconnaissance UAVs penetrated Iranian airspace, and the Iranian missile system "Bavar 373" and the Russian S-300 missile system failed to shoot them down.

The Israeli Mossad is on its way to wreaking havoc inside Iran, says British journalist Jake Wallis Simmons. Iran is about to be hit by a new deadly wave of Israeli Mossad operations, senior Jerusalem sources told me. This will happen as a result of a change in Israeli policy, from now on, "When Tehran's proxy militias cause problems in the region, the Jewish state will take revenge on Iranian soil." It will no longer attack the octopus' tentacles, "said one senior source. It has been decided in Israel to go for the octopus head."

Iran on Saturday downplayed reports of a large blast near the Natanz nuclear facility in the Isfahan Province, saying it was the result of an unannounced air defense drill during which a missile was fired over the area housing the sensitive uranium enrichment site. The Natanz nuclear facility is a major part of Iran's nuclear program. With over 19,000 centrifuges currently operational, it is considered Iran's main uranium enrichment site and as such, it has been the target of several attempts to hamper its operations, mostly via cyberattacks. The most famous of the latter is the 2010 Stuxnet strike that...

VIDEO: Iranian official media report this morning on a UAV located in the area of the village of Mia Kohrang (I will attach a map immediately). The Iranian media publish the UAV rescue video but are careful not to provide any other details on the matter.

BREAKING Akhabar Fori channel quotes "Daneshju agency" which it quotes local sources about hearing a HUGE explosion over Natanz. Details will be updated here as they come in!

It is possible that few US satellite imagery services withheld images of Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz. It is starting to look like certain US satellite imagery services may have withheld high-resolution images of Iran’s nuclear facility at Karaj on June 23, which Tehran eventually blamed on Israel. ......Snip.... One reason it is possible that US companies might withhold such images could be that their primary customer is the US government, and it could, even informally, send certain “shutter control” signals. Why all of this would be occurring is even more speculative, but one reason could be to help the...

The Biden administration has delivered a “sharp rebuke” to Israel for undermining its position in talks with Iran by its “embarrassing chatter and bragging” about the bomb at the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant, Israel’s Channel 12 reported Friday.

Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Hejazi had also been accused by Israel of being responsible for the precision missile manufacturing program for the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. April 18, 2021 Brigadier General Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Hejazi , considered the "number two" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the elite ideological and military body of the Persian regime, died of a heart attack this Sunday afternoon., as reported by the Islamic Republic. The Revolutionary Guard itself announced the death of Hejazi "after long years of tireless and selfless service in sensitive places to defend the Islamic Revolution and the holy Islamic Republic of Iran."

A group of 18 Republican senators on Tuesday wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking an investigation into President Biden's nominee for a top role in the Pentagon over whether he disclosed or solicited classified information after leaving his government job in the Obama administration. The senators requested Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) not advance the nomination of Colin Kahl for under secretary of Defense policy for a full vote until the FBI has completed an investigation, according to a copy of the letter obtained exclusively by The Hill..... ..."By apparently soliciting or otherwise receiving classified information and controlled...

Wars often arise from uncertainty. When strong countries appear weak, truly weaker ones take risks they otherwise would not. Sloppy braggadocio and serial promises of restraint can trigger wars, too. Empty tough talk can needlessly egg on aggressors. But mouthing utopian bromides convinces bullies that their targets are too sophisticated to counter aggression. Sometimes announcing "a new peace process" without any ability to bring either novel concessions or pressures only raises false hopes -- and furor. Every new American president is tested to determine whether the United States can still protect friends such as Europe, Japan, South Korea and Israel....

Iran said on Tuesday it will start enriching uranium to 60% purity, a move bringing the fissile material closer to levels suitable for a bomb, after accusing Israel of sabotaging a key nuclear installation. The disclosure came soon before the resumption of talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, an accord Israel fiercely opposed, after former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned it three years ago. A fissile purity of 90% is suitable for a nuclear bomb. Last week, Iran and the global powers held what they described as "constructive" talks to salvage the 2015...