Sources: Haaretz
Israel intercepts three surface-to-surface missiles launched from Yemen, with at least one missile being shot down by its Arrow missile defence system. The Iran-backed Houthis claim responsibility for the launches. 2023-10-31
Iran agrees to provide Russia with medium-range missiles, surface-to-surface missiles and combat drones for the war in Ukraine. 2022-10-18
Government forces and the Taliban clash in Herat, the provincial capital of Herat Province, where the Islamist group has seized many districts. The Taliban also captures adjoining border crossings with Iran and Turkmenistan as the United Nations accuses them of killing a United Nations serviceman yesterday during an attack on a UN compound. 2021-07-31
Iran's most senior nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated by gunmen in Absard. The attackers blow up a car and then open fire on his vehicle, seriously wounding him; he later dies in a hospital. Three or four of the attackers are later killed during a gunfight with Fakhrizadeh's bodyguards. Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called the killing an act of state terror. 2020-11-27
Iran's police, security council and interior ministry will empty the streets of people in the next 24 hours in an effort to contain the coronavirus. 2020-03-13
Germany and the Netherlands suspend military training mission in Iraq citing escalating tensions in the region with Iran. 2019-05-15
Majid Jamali Fashi, convicted of killing Iranian quantum field theorist and elementary-particle physicist Masoud Alimohammadi, is executed. 2012-05-15
Iran tests 14 surface-to-surface missiles on the second day of war games. 2011-06-28
The United States imposes sanctions on a Swiss-based Iranian oil company, the Naftiran Inter-trade Company. 2010-09-30
Female poet Simin Behbahani says the government of Iran has issued her with a "travel ban" after confiscating her passport at Tehran International Airport as she was about to travel to France. 2010-03-8