All news on the topic: Tehran

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Starmer slams ‘reckless’ Iran strike as UK deploys air defence to Gulf amid spiralling crisis
Sir Keir Starmer has condemned a “reckless” Iranian attack on an oil refinery in Kuwait and confirmed the deployment of Britain’s rapid sentry air defense system to the Gulf country.
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Eight dead after attack on Iranian bridge following Trump escalation rhetoric
Eight people have been killed and 95 are injured after a strike on Iran’s largest bridge following Donald Trump’s threat to send the country ‘back to the Stone Age’.
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‘Hesitant’ Keir Starmer told to expel Iran’s ambassador ‘at once’ after RAF base threat
Prince Reza Palavi’s closest aide and senior MPs have called on Keir Starmer to expel the Iranian ambassador in London after he threatened to attack British bases.
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Data centers become frontline targets as Middle East conflict escalates
Data centers are juicy targets. Nowhere is that becoming more clear than in the Gulf.
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Keir Starmer warns Iran war will “shape Britain for a generation”
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned that the impact of the Iran war will “affect the future of our country” but insisted that “no matter how fierce this storm, we are well-placed to weather it”.
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Second oil lifeline at risk as Houthis eye Bab al-Mandeb blockade
The Houthis have threatened to obstruct a second major oil shipping route, as a new map reveals the vulnerability of the 18-mile-wide Bab al-Mandeb Strait to a blockade.
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Iran accused of seeking British crypto donations to fund regime
Iran has been accused of using crypto donations from Britain to illicitly bolster its finances.
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Trump again postpones the bombing of Iranian energy sites and says talks are going ’very well’
Donald Trump has extended his pause on striking Iranian energy plants by ten days and has again claimed peace talks are going "very well."
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US defence chief warns London could be in range of Iranian missiles
In a warning to the British, US Defense Chief Pete Hegseth suggested that London is within the range of Iranian missiles.
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British woman jailed in Iran says she has made peace with dying in missile strikes
A British woman who was imprisoned in Iran with her husband on "falsified" spying charges says she has "made peace" with the idea of dying in a US-Israeli missile strike.
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UK officials held secret meetings with Iranian colonel plotting regime change
British officials had at least five meetings with a former Iranian army Colonel who sought to overthrow the regime in Tehran and promote a “military government”, declassified files show.
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UK troops shoot down drones targeting allied base amid Iran conflict escalation
British troops shot down over a dozen Iranian “suicide” drones over an allied base in northern Iraq last night.
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Crisis for UK defences as just one warship can counter missile strike threat
Britain has been branded a "laughing stock" as it was revealed the UK has just one operational destroyer capable of intercepting Iranian missiles.
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Israel says it killed Iran security chief Ali Larijani and Basij commander in airstrike
A top militia commander who oversaw mass arrests and a brutal crackdown on mass protests across Iran has been killed in an airstrike alongside Iran’s top security chief, Israel has claimed.
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Environmental hell in Tehran as Israeli strikes ignite fuel depots and burning oil flows through city drainage systems
Video from the streets of Tehran, where fuel is burning following Israeli strikes, having leaked into sewers and drainage channels.
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Iranian warship IRIS Dena sinks off Sri Lanka after suspected submarine attack as more than 100 crew feared missing
An Iranian warship was sunk in a suspected submarine attack, with over 100 crew members feared missing.
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‘Not Winston Churchill’: Trump attacks Starmer for blocking US Iran strikes from UK bases
Donald Trump has launched a deeply personal attack on Keir Starmer over his refusal to let the US launch initial strikes on Iran from British bases, telling reporters: “This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.”
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Iran’s power structure hit: Assembly of Experts building destroyed in Qom strike
Israel and US strikes have flattened the building of a body tasked with choosing Iran’s new supreme leader.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead after being ’found in rubble’, Israel claims
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly been found dead in the rubble of his compound following US-Israel strikes in Tehran.
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US-Israel strikes on Tehran reportedly target Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran launches retaliatory missile attacks across the region
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was reportedly the target of the US-Israel airstrikes on Tehran, which have sparked a retaliation from the regime.
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Iran arrests tens of thousands in brutal post-protest crackdown as rights groups warn of torture, executions and mass detentions
Iranian authorities have arrested tens of thousands of people in what Human Rights Watch described on Tuesday as a “brutal campaign” of mass, arbitrary, and violent detentions aimed at terrorizing the population since late December.
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Craig and Lindsay Foreman jailed for ten years in Tehran’s Evin prison
Craig Foreman speaks to ITV News Global Security Editor Rohit Kachroo from inside a notorious Iranian prison, as he and his wife say they have been given a ten-year sentence.
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How Venezuela under Chavez and Maduro became Iran’s main global ally and a safe haven for Hezbollah
The combined 26 years of rule by Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez turned Venezuela into the Islamic Republic of Iran’s main ally outside the Middle East.
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Police officers injured and multiple arrests made as protest outside Iranian embassy in London turns violent
A number of people have also been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, the Metropolitan Police has said.
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Iran signals swift trials and executions of protesters as Trump warns the US will intervene
Judiciary chief threatens swift punishment after Trump says US will intervene if Iran begins executing demonstrators