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Ali Khamenei’s secret bunker included blast-resistant room, escape tunnels under Tehran - report

Khamenei’s underground bunker had become an IDF target during Israel’s strikes against Iran in March, with clandestine IDF units 8200 and 9900 providing intelligence on its location.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Iran's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, February 17, 2026.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL Esmail Qaani, the head of the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force.

Quds force commander demands Israel leave Lebanon as Iran's deputy FM threatens Italy, Romania

"You Zionists must leave all of Lebanon. This land is the arena of resistance and steadfastness, not a playground for occupiers," he demanded in a social media post.

|ByTZVI JASPER, REUTERS
Members of the Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah attend the funeral of their members, who were killed in an airstrike that targeted a Hashd al‑Shaabi headquarters near the western al‑Qaim district on the Syrian border, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2026.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards set up covert Iraqi cells to attack Gulf neighbors, sources say

Three or four cells, each comprising about 10 elite Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim fighters, launched at least seven drone attacks from desert locations near the southern cities of Basra and Samawa.

|ByREUTERS
PORTRAIT IMAGE of Parastoo Ahmadi, Iranian folk and traditional singer.

Iran sentences singer Parastoo Ahmadi, eight others to lashings over performance without hijab

The artists will also face a two-year travel ban and a two-year restriction on all artistic activity after the Iranian judiciary found the nine artists had offended “public decency."

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Khamenei’s post-war Iran: What comes next for the regime's Supreme Leader? - analysis

The uncertainty surrounding Mojtaba Khamenei's grasp on power could lead to policy innovation or internal conflicts.

JUNE 18, 2026BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A man walks past Iran’s national flag and a banner bearing the images of the late founder of the Islamic Revolution, supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R), the late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his son, the current supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei (L), in Tehran, June 10.

Deadly Iran attacks on Saudi, Bahrain civilian sites may be war crimes, Amnesty International says

At least 28 people were killed and hundreds were injured after Iran launched unprovoked attacks on GCC countries, though information on said attacks was largely restricted by those states.

JUNE 18, 2026ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Smoke rises above Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 5, 2026

US-Iran deal could be 'worst ever,' Iranian-Israeli strategic analyst warns

Yasmin Sayeh, an Iranian-Israeli strategic analyst who marched for a free Iran calls the new US-Iran deal "probably the worst deal ever."

JUNE 18, 2026BySHIFRA JACOBS, JERUSALEM POST PODCASTS
US President Donald Trump is approaching a strategic crossroads in the war with Iran.

Iran to reportedly invite inspectors to enriched material sites, Trump expects 'complete ceasefire'

JD Vance: Israel should not attack its only powerful ally left • IDF soldier killed, seven others wounded in southern Lebanon • Netanyahu vows IDF will remain in Lebanon

JUNE 18, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conferene at the Prime Minister's office in Jerursalem, June 15, 2026.

Iranian regime likely to rebuild military with funds released by MoU, ISW assesses

Though Trump denied reports of a $300 billion fund slated for Iran, ISW noted that Iranian officials have already promised that funds set to be released as part of the deal would be used to rebuild.

JUNE 17, 2026ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A symbolic mockup of an Iranian missile is displayed, amid a ceasefire between U.S. and Iran, in Tehran, Iran, April 27, 2026.

Trump signs MoU as Iran says it will not let enriched uranium leave country

Israeli officials remain 'frustrated' over US-Iran agreement • Monthly record number of ships pass through Strait of Hormuz • Mike Pence, Nikki Haley slam Iran deal

JUNE 17, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US President Donald Trump (front), who attended the G7 summit in France, boards Air Force One at Paris Orly Airport, 13 kilometres (8 miles) south of Paris, in the early hours of June 18, 2026.

Donald Trump's real choice on Iran: A weak deal or a wider war? - analysis

As military pressure fails to shift Tehran’s position and diplomacy offers no easy victory, the US president faces a choice

JUNE 14, 2026ByDANNY CITRINOWICZ
US President Donald Trump is approaching a strategic crossroads in the war with Iran.
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Negotiating with bombs: How Iran turned US strikes into leverage - analysis

Why Iran reads America’s strikes as an invitation to haggle, not a demand to surrender

JUNE 14, 2026ByAVIRAM BELLAISHE
Iranians drive past a huge billboard carrying the image of the late Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a street in Tehran. Iranians remain defiant despite US and Israeli pressure.
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IRGC general threatens to 'turn entire region into hell' if Strait of Hormuz destabilized

"Will you make the sacred Strait of Hormuz unsafe? We will turn the entire region into hell for you from across Iran,” IRGC Aerospace Force Chief Brig.-Gen. Majid Mousavi said.

JUNE 11, 2026ByTZVI JASPER
Seyyed Hossein Mousavi Eftekhari, known as Majid Mousavi, is a brigadier general in the IRGC who was appointed commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force on June 13, 2025.

Explosions reportedly heard in Strait of Hormuz, Trump says Iran deal 'approved by all sides'

IDF pushes deeper in into Lebanon to neutralize threat of Hezbollah • Iran to reestablish closure of Strait of Hormuz, blaming US tensions • IED explosion wounds two IDF soldiers

JUNE 11, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US Sailors observe as a US Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighter lands on the flight deck of USS Tripoli while transiting the Arabian Sea in a photo shared by US Central Command on May 30, 2026.