The Israeli Air Force launches a bombing campaign against Iran targeting nuclear facilities with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran's nuclear program. A special state of emergency is declared in Israel by Defence Minister Israel Katz and Israeli airspace is closed to all flights. Iranian state television reports that 60 people were killed in the attacks, while Israel claims only three people died and dozens got injured. 2025-06-13
Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei rejects negotiations with the U.S. regarding Iran's nuclear program, stating that Iran is "not interested in nuclear weapons". 2025-03-12
Oil prices increase in the United States following the Biden administration's announcement of new sanctions against Iran's petrochemicals industry. The sanctions are an effort to force Iran to comply with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, from which the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018. 2022-06-16
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi announces that the country is ready to resume nuclear talks and to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Raisi also called on the U.S. to lift its sanctions against Iran. 2021-09-4
King Salman of Saudi Arabia calls for a "comprehensive and firm" response to Iran's nuclear program and condemns what he describes as "its expansionist activities, create its terrorist networks, and use terrorism", adding that it produces nothing but "chaos, extremism, and sectarianism". An Iranian official rebuffs the accusations as "baseless". 2020-09-23
Malta imposes a freeze on Pilatus Bank. The bank's Iranian chairman Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad was arrested and charged in the United States earlier this week, accused of breaching United States sanctions against Iran. 2018-03-22
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says that Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if Iran does. 2018-03-15