The IDF Persian-language spokesperson published an unusual message on X, directly addressing the Iranian people and urging them to make contact only through official and verified channels. The post comes amid reports of outreach to unidentified accounts and against the backdrop of rising tensions in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Washington now willing to permit uranium enrichment under strict limits, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discloses. Iran prepared to accept oversight but missile talks risk war. Satellite evidence shows Tehran fortifying secret mountain facility near Natanz.
Ali Shamkhani warned that any US military action would have global consequences as regime forced government workers to attend Revolution Day rallies across the country.
Israel is concerned that Iran could rebuild its ballistic missile arsenal to as many as 2,000 missiles within weeks or months if no action is taken, according to Israeli officials quoted by CNN.
Iranian authorities have launched a campaign of promises and threats toward the public ahead of the marking of “Unity Day” on February 12. Civil servants will be required to attend rallies organized by the regime. At the same time, signs of resistance continue to break through the tightening grip of repression.
According to Bloomberg, Bilal Erdogan, 44, is undergoing what sources describe as “political grooming” and has become involved in selecting senior figures within Turkey’s ruling party and government. The scenario being discussed is that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would win another term, appoint his son as chairman of the ruling party and later name him vice president.
New satellite imagery reveals that Iran has fully covered the tunnel entrances at its nuclear facility in Isfahan with earth, rendering the central and southern access points unrecognizable, according to an analysis suggesting Tehran is preparing for a potential US Israeli airstrike or special forces raid.
Iran’s National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani is set to meet Omani officials on Tuesday following US-Iran talks that ended without major breakthroughs. Meanwhile, Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Tehran might be willing to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in return for the full removal of sanctions.
Pouria Hamidi published a video in which he called on President Trump to help the Iranian people and said that any agreement with the regime would be “a betrayal of the dead.” The young man later took his own life, and a death notice bearing his name and photograph was published by his family.
Forces loyal to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have arrested Azar Mansouri, the head of the faction that helped propel Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to office, after she criticized the regime’s killing of protesters. Two additional senior figures from the reformist camp were also detained, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tightens its grip across the regime’s institutions
