Ramona Wadi

Iran’s top security official and the country’s parliament speaker have hailed Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei’s remarks on national unity and social cohesion, describing them as a clear guiding principle for senior authorities.

Hezbollah fighters have successfully thwarted the so-called ‘Greater Israel’ plot and stopped Israel’s expansion into Lebanon, says the secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement.

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has announced that three of its members have embraced martyrdom in a “cowardly” Zionist regime’s airstrike on a home in the occupied West Bank.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Navy says Iranian forces exercise “complete and decisive” control over the strategic Strait of Hormuz, rejecting statements by US officials that the waterway remains open.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojataba Khamenei hailed the administration of President Masoud Pezeshkian for handling the people’s needs amid the US-Israeli aggression and blockade, urging increased domestic production and eliminating the US dollar from transactions.

The Arab Group at the United Nations warned on Thursday of escalating Zionist regime’s measures in the occupied West Bank and efforts to undermine international attempts to implement the roadmap for the Gaza Strip, reaffirming its rejection of any steps aimed at entrenching the occupation or imposing Israeli sovereignty over Palestinian territory.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) intensified raids across several areas of the West Bank on Friday, storming homes, arresting Palestinians and firing tear gas, while Jewish settlers carried out further attacks against Palestinians.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization says the US, Zionist regime and their allies have revised their strategy toward Iran after failing to achieve their objectives through direct military confrontation.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has hit back at US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after the American official accused Iran of funding proxies, saying the United States should instead spend its money on its own people.

President Masoud Pezeshkian says all the legal rights of the Iranian people must be recognized within the framework of international law, stressing that Tehran seeks nothing beyond its legitimate rights and will not surrender to pressure or bullying.

Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Major General Mohsen Rezaei has said the Islamic Republic will send Zionist regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to hell” and prove that his “great mistakes” have brought the Zionist regime closer to its end.

The Hamas Movement has condemned Zionist regime’s decision to expand settlements’ influence areas in the occupied West Bank, calling it a deliberate effort to seize more Palestinian land and accelerate the displacement of Palestinians.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for a new understanding of Islamic unity based on truth, justice, mutual responsibility, and practical cooperation, stressing that unity does not mean eliminating religious, political or national differences.

The 40th International Islamic Unity Conference began in Tehran’s Summit Hall on Thursday in the presence of President Masoud Pezeshkian and a number of prominent scholars from the Islamic world.

Israeli occupation authorities have approved 18 new and amended settlement jurisdiction areas in the occupied West Bank, paving the way for settlement expansion and the establishment of additional outposts, the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission revealed on Tuesday.

The martyr toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,438 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning.

Three Palestinian families in the Jabel Ras al-Ain area of Qusra town, south of Nablus, have entered their 18th consecutive day under siege by extremist Jewish settlers, while Israeli forces continue to block access roads and enforce severe movement restrictions, keeping the residents confined to their homes

Iran has called on governments to reject and condemn the extraterritorial application of US unilateral coercive measures, warning that Washington is seeking to force other states to subordinate their sovereign rights and lawful policies to its demands.

Iranian missile and drone strikes during the US-Israeli aggression caused unprecedented damage to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) facilities and equipment across West Asia, a report says.

President Masoud Pezeshkian says the United States will not be able to achieve anything through economic pressure, stressing that Iran will continue to stand firm.

President of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq says Iraq's sovereignty and people stand in full solidarity with Iran against the "criminal aggression" by the United States and Israel.

Illegal Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank

Several areas across the West Bank witnessed raids by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) early Tuesday, involving home searches, arrests and the establishment of military checkpoints, alongside confrontations and settler attacks in several areas.