Iranian authorities conducted a cloud-seeding operation Saturday in an effort to produce artificial rainfall amid the country’s most severe drought in 50 years.
Iranian forces seized an oil tanker named Talara on Friday as it passed through the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz, triggering what could become a major international standoff.
Iran’s assassination plot against Israel’s ambassador to Mexico was foiled last summer, U.S. and Israeli officials confirmed, exposing the Islamic Republic’s growing network of global terror operations.
Federal investigators revealed disturbing new details about an Iranian hacking operation that targeted former National Security Advisor John Bolton, taunting him as “Mr. Mustache” while threatening to leak allegedly classified material stolen from his personal email.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes that most of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile survived the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on nuclear sites in June.
Houthi chief Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari, the Iran-backed terror group’s chief of staff, was confirmed dead Thursday following an Israeli strike that targeted him in August.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgency in Yemen has abducted another nine United Nations employees, raising the total number of U.N. personnel detained by the group over the past four years to 53. The Houthis, known for their hostility toward Western nations and Israel, have not explained the latest round of kidnappings or revealed where the employees are being held.
