Iran

Iran sent a written message via Swiss diplomats in mid-October saying that it would not seek to kill Donald Trump, a U.S. official told NBC News.

Iran’s government directed three people to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged.

Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.

Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons and is prepared to change its policies on using them if faced with an existential threat, an adviser to its supreme leader said Friday in the latest bellicose statement from the country amid its high-stakes tit-for-tat with Israel. 

Israel says that it launched strikes on strategic targets in Iran. NBC10’s Johnny Archer has the latest. 

The Israel Defense Forces said Friday it is conducting “precise strikes on military targets in Iran.”

Israel vowed to respond with violent force following Tuesday’s missile strike from Iran. The escalating conflict in the Middle East comes as the Jewish community worldwide is celebrating the year’s holiest of holidays. NBC10’s Deanna Durante spoke with locals who are getting ready to celebrate but with caution. 

“Obviously, Iran has gone way out of — I mean, is way off court,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday. “And there’s going to be some sanctions imposed on Iran.”

Hadas Kuznits, a former journalist for NBC10 newsgathering partner KYW NewsRadio talks what it was like in Israel when Iran launched missile attacks on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.

A former journalist for NBC10 newsgathering partner KYW NewsRadio, Hadas Kuznits, is now living in Israel. She described what it was like during Tuesday’s missile assault.

India’s Mohun Bagan Super Giants has refused to travel to Iran to play Tractor SC in an Asian Champions League Two match scheduled for Wednesday because of the escalating security problems in the country and region.

The conflict in the Middle East is escalating. Iran fired missiles at Israel just one day before the Jewish community will celebrate Rosh Hashanah. NBC10’s Deanna Durante spoke with a local rabbi on how he plans to comfort his community during this time. 

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others. The disaster that began Saturday night is one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s history.

Iran says it launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

The U.S. intelligence community says Iran is to blame for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s runoff presidential election, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.

Iranians are voting in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi. The race’s sole reformist candidate vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy. Voters face a choice Friday between hard-line candidates and the little-known Masoud Pezeshkian.

The apparent crash of a helicopter carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region. Here’s what to know.

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, state media reported Monday morning. NBC’s Drew Petrimoulx has the latest on this developing story.

Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in the country’s northwest.