All news on the topic: Iran

Labour leader Keir Starmer today promises to end the NHS scandal which has left 180,937 children waiting more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment - despite Rishi Sunak pledging to cut waiting lists

Recent weeks have seen Iran-backed Houthi rebels, operating out of Yemen, attack commercial ships heading through the Red Sea and overnight they launched their largest attack yet

At an event to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of Iran's General Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force, two explosions have left at least 103 people dead and more than 170 others wounded

A retired US general has made a damning statement, saying that America 'needs to squash them like a fly' as 10 Houthis rebels die after the Navy sink militias boats in the Red Sea

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK is weighing up strikes on Houthi insurgents behind a string of attacks on freight vessels in the Red Sea, aimed at disrupting vital trade routes

The Mirror's Defence and Security Editor Chris Hughes fears the Red Sea will be a new focus of trouble in 2024, due to Iran-backed Houthis attacking Western shipping, with conflict continuing in Israel and Ukraine

The Royal Navy warships HMS Diamond and HMS Lancaster are on patrol in the Red Sea following a series of attacks on shipping by Iranian-backed Houthis

Ministers have been warned it is "only a matter of time" before someone dies at RAF Wethersfield in Essex, just days after a suspected suicide on the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge

Rebels backed by Iran were behind a missile attack on a US warship that was called to assist the recuse of a tanker stormed by armed assailants, officials have said

A 61-year-old Virginia doctor has been stripped of his citizenship - all because of his late father's status as an Iranian diplomat at the time of his birth

The Yemeni Houthi rebels - a Tehran-backed Shi'a militia - confirmed that they had sezied control over the ship due to its connection with Israel before taking 52 seamen and women hostage in the Red Sea

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco - as Chinese businesses are reported to be fuelling the fentanyl crisis ravaging American cities

Efraim Halevy, a former Israeli spymaster has warned that the battle with Hamas is not even at its halfway point and that it "will last for longer than either side could have anticipated"

US Central Command said it deployed an Ohio-Class sub (SSGNs), which are the largest submarines every built for the Navy and capable of firing up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles

Iran's Defence Minister said America should call for a ceasefire and stop the war in Gaza - but while Joe Biden mentioned a humanitarian pause, he has not supported a ceasefire

Iran is being put under international pressure for its extensive use of the death penalty for crimes including adultery, sodomy, murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping and drug traffickin

Armita Geravand, 16, suffered "severe injuries" after an altercation with the so-called morality police at Shohada station in the Iranian capital Tehran on 1 October, according to human rights organisation Hengaw

A move by Russian president Vladimir Putin to meet major players including Iran in the conflict between Israel and Hamas has startled Western leaders with many fearing it could ignite a wider war in the region

Mirror's Chris Hughes reports from near Israel’s flashpoint border with Lebanon, where he witnesses massive troop build-up and is warned Hezbollah’s death squads will come

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has sent an alarming threat to the US as wider conflict fears grow after alleging intelligence reports show the US is "formulating the Zionist regime’s current policy"

Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has issued a strong warning the all out war between Hamas and Israel may deteriorate into a wider regional conflict in the Middle East

The events of the last ten days have revived old antagonisms between Israel and its neighbouring countries. Treaties aimed at keeping the peace are buckling under the strain

The mass of intelligence taken from many of the 1,500 dead gunmen shows a level of savage orchestration never seen before and means Israel’s infantry troops are facing a bloody and relentless defence of Gaza

Colonel Richard Kemp says Israeli troops on the Gaza border were apprehensive yet determined to do what is needed to protect family, friends and countrymen from Hamas rockets

While exploring the 'Argo' rescue, the CIA publicly acknowledged that America, the UK, and Iran-army involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état was 'undemocratic'