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Saif · Jun 24, 2025

Iran arrests European national suspected of spying for Israel

A European national was arrested by Iranian authorities in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, Al Jazeera reports citing Iran’s Fars news agency. The person was accused of “spying on sensitive and military areas”, according to the report. Since the outbreak of conflict w

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Iran arrests European national suspected of spying for Israel

Published :
Jun 24, 2025 20:06
Updated :
Jun 24, 2025 20:06

The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo/File Photo

A European national was arrested by Iranian authorities in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, Al Jazeera reports citing Iran’s Fars news agency.

The person was accused of “spying on sensitive and military areas”, according to the report.

Since the outbreak of conflict with Israel, Iran has arrested dozens of people and executed several accused of spying for Israel, the Al Jazeera report says.

Earlier today, Iranian state media reported that six more people were arrested in the western Hamadan province for allegedly spying for Israel’s Mossad, according to Al Jazeera.

Saif · Jun 24, 2025

Iran armed forces repeats denial of attack on Israel

Iran's General Staff of the Armed Forces Abdolrahim Mousavi has denied firing any missiles towards Israel in the last few hours, BBC reports citing Iranian state media. This comes after earlier denials in state media, which said reports that Iran had attacked Israel after the start of the ceasefir

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Iran armed forces repeats denial of attack on Israel

Published :
Jun 24, 2025 15:36
Updated :
Jun 24, 2025 16:09

Iran's General Staff of the Armed Forces Abdolrahim Mousavi has denied firing any missiles towards Israel in the last few hours, BBC reports citing Iranian state media.

This comes after earlier denials in state media, which said reports that Iran had attacked Israel after the start of the ceasefire were false, according to BBC.

Israel struck Iran in three stages early on Tuesday, up until 9 a.m. local time (0530 GMT), the spokesperson of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya central military headquarters said, Reuters reports citing Iranian state TV.

Iranian state TV earlier said a ceasefire would take place in Iran from 7:30 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) on Tuesday.

Trump posted on Truth Social just after 0500 GMT that the ceasefire had taken effect.

Iran's Supreme National Security Council, its top security body, earlier said its armed forces were prepared to "decisively respond" to renewed attacks.

Saif · Jun 24, 2025

How Iran's 'telegraphed' strikes on Qatari soil paved way to Israel truce

Iran's unprecedented strikes on a US base in Qatar were carefully calculated to provide an exit from hostilities with Washington and set up a truce with Israel

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How Iran's 'telegraphed' strikes on Qatari soil paved way to Israel truce

AFP Doha, Qatar
Published: 24 Jun 2025, 22: 31

Vehicles drive past a huge banner on Enghelab (Revolution) Square, in Tehran on 24 June, 2025 AFP

Iran's unprecedented strikes on a US base in Qatar were carefully calculated to provide an exit from hostilities with Washington and set up a truce with Israel, according to analysts and an official.

Monday's missile launches were signalled well in advance, minimising the risk of injury and giving every opportunity to shoot down the projectiles -- resulting in a fireworks display of booms and flashes above Doha.

They followed heavy US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at the weekend, a sudden escalation that raised concerns about how Tehran, after more than a week of exchanges with Israel, would respond.

In the event, gas-rich Qatar, 190 kilometres (120 miles) south of Iran across the Gulf, held the answer in the form of Al Udeid, the Middle East's biggest US base and headquarters of its regional command.

Targeting a United States base, rather than inciting fury, triggered a calm reaction from President Donald Trump, who thanked Iran for giving "early notice".

Qatar condemned the strikes -- Iran's first on a Gulf country's territory -- but its prime minister said the response would be diplomatic and legal, rather than military.

Hours after the attack, Trump announced a ceasefire that both Israel and Iran later said they would accept. A source with knowledge of the talks said Doha had spoken to Tehran and "persuaded" it to stop fighting.

'Off ramp'

Chatham House geopolitics specialist Neil Quilliam said the attack was "clearly limited" and "intended to satisfy Iran's population that its leadership responded forcibly to the US air strikes on Saturday".

Iran had promised to inflict "serious, unpredictable consequences" on the US for joining its ally Israel's campaign against the Islamic republic with strikes on three nuclear sites.

The wealthy Gulf states, which host a number of US military sites, had been preparing for days for a possible strike by Iran.

A week before Qatar was targeted, Bahrain, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, tested its civil defence sirens.

Also last week, dozens of US military aircraft disappeared from the tarmac at Al Udeid, according to satellite images published by Planet Labs PBC and analysed by AFP.

In the hours before the attack, the US embassy in Qatar advised Americans there not to go out, with some other Western embassies echoing the warning.

Shortly before the strikes, air traffic was suspended over Qatar "as part of a set of precautionary measures", the country's foreign ministry said.

Ali Vaez, senior advisor at the International Crisis Group said Iran's action against Qatar was "symbolic" and "calibrated and telegraphed in a way that would not result in any American casualties, so that there is an off-ramp for both sides".

'Taken this punch'

According to the source with knowledge of the talks, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani spoke to the Iranians at Washington's request after the strikes.

Trump told Qatar's emir that Israel had agreed to a ceasefire, before US Vice President JD Vance spoke to the prime minister "who persuaded Iran to agree to the proposal in a call with the Iranians", the source said.

Vaez said the "good relationship between Iran and Qatar is the reason that Iran opted to strike... the Al Udeid base in Qatar".

Before the attack, there had been speculation that Iran could target US forces based in Iraq or elsewhere in the region.

"I see this as a continuation of Qatar's mediation between Iran and the United States, that it has taken this punch as a means of trying to prevent further escalation," Vaez added.

Quilliam said: "While Qatar's official responses to the attacks condemned Iran, it also pushed forward a deeper message about ending conflict in the region."

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Saif · Jun 24, 2025

Russia welcomes Iran-Israel ceasefire, hopes it will last

Russia said that it would welcome a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, after both sides and US President Donald Trump announced a halt in hostilities.

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Russia welcomes Iran-Israel ceasefire, hopes it will last

AFP Moscow
Published: 24 Jun 2025, 17: 11

The Russian flag flies on the dome of the Kremlin Senate building behind Spasskaya Tower in Moscow, Russia on 2 June 2025. AFP

Russia said on Tuesday that it would welcome a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, after both sides and US President Donald Trump announced a halt in hostilities.

"If a ceasefire has indeed been achieved, this can only be welcomed," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that Moscow hoped "that this will be a sustainable ceasefire".

Moscow provides crucial backing for Tehran, but did not swing forcefully behind its partner even as the United States launched strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend.

When asked about accusations that Russia provided only tepid and symbolic support for Iran, Peskov hit back, saying that there were "many who want to use the situation to pour oil onto the fire and spoil the partnership between Moscow and Tehran".

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not announce any concrete support for his key ally, even as Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi headed to Moscow a day after the US strikes.

Putin slammed attacks on Iran in the meeting with Araghchi as "unprovoked" and "unjustified", without directly mentioning the United States, adding that Russia was "making efforts to help the Iranian people", without elaborating.