Iran

Iran suspends cooperation with nuclear watchdog following US strikes

State media announced a law enforcing the decision had been enacted by President Masoud Pezeshkian

By Jacob Jaffa

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Iran has suspended its cooperation with the IAEA, state media has confirmed

The regime's notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Human rights groups and survivors say that torture and executions of dissidents are routine there. (Image: Wikimedia)

By Kasra Aarabi

The Islamic Republic’s North Korea moment

4 min read

New satellite images purportedly show Iranian officials attempting to clear the entrance to the Fordow nuclear facility that was damaged in US airstrikes last week (Image: Maxar Technologies)

Iran nuclear program

Iran trying to regain access to bombed Fordow nuclear site

By Dudi Kogan

1 min read

Iran

Iran issues fatwa against Trump and Netanyahu

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

IAEA director Rafael Grossi suggested that Iran could restart uranium enrichment within 'a matter of months' (Image: Getty)

Iran nuclear program

Iran could restart uranium enrichment in ‘a matter of months’, says nuclear watchdog chief

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

IDF home front command search and rescue units at the site of an Iranian missile impact in Beersheba (Image: IDF)

Israel

Iran targeted ‘Israeli society itself’ in massive missile barrage

By Amelie Botbol

4 min read

President Trump has indicated that a Gaza ceasefire could be agreed within a week (Image: Getty)

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JC Israel Briefing Day 632: Gaza ceasefire could come within a week, Trump claims

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

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JC Israel Briefing Day 630: Mega‑deal for Gaza and more in works

Plus, October 7 documentary picks up historic Emmy win

By Nathan Jeffay

2 min read

June 27, 2025 08:21

New reports suggest that a Middle East mega-deal, including a Gaza ceasefire and expansion of the Abraham Accords, could be agreed in the coming weeks (Image: Getty)

By Daniel Roth

After the strikes: The six steps to fully dismantle Iran’s nuclear programme

The Israeli and US attacks seem to have bought a great deal of time. What we do with that time will determine whether we truly prevent – or merely postpone – a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic

3 min read

June 26, 2025 16:11

Smoke rises after an Israeli attack on IRGC's Sarallah Headquarters in north of Tehran on June 23, 2025. (Image: Getty)

‘Mutual responsibility is very Jewish’: How the Kibbutz Movement is stepping up to help communities hit by Iran’s attacks

The group established a national emergency volunteer headquarters to help families displaced by the Islamic Republic’s missile campaign

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

June 26, 2025 11:40

Volunteers from across Israel's kibbutzim are dedicating their time to help re-house those displaced by Iran's missile attacks. (Photo courtesy of the Kibbutz Movement Rehabilitation Fund)

Israeli student arrested for allegedly acting on behalf of Iran

Bashar Hassan Qassem Musa, 22, was in contact with an Iranian operative for several months, carrying out missions under his direction, according to police

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 26, 2025 11:02

Iran steps up arrests and executions of alleged Israeli collaborators

Three people, accused of working for Mossad, have been hanged while around 700 have been detained in the latest security crackdown

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

June 26, 2025 10:38

Iranian security forces have arrested over 700 people and hanged three alleged Mossad agents in a new security crackdown (Image: Getty)

JC Israel Briefing Day 629: Trump compares Iran strikes to Hiroshima bombing

Plus, the US president calls for end of Netanyahu’s ‘witch hunt’ corruption trial

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

June 26, 2025 09:05

Donald Trump compared the devastation of US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Image: Getty)

By Arsen Ostrovsky

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

They struck Iran’s nuclear programme not only in defence of their own countries, but in protection of the free world. Indeed, not since 1940, has so much been owed by so many to so few

3 min read

June 25, 2025 14:59