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File: A Cyprus police van carrying an Azeri national suspected of taking part in an alleged plot to attack Israelis on the Mediterranean island is pictured outside the criminal court in the capital Nicosia, on December 6, 2021. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)

After Cyprus plot, Israel vows to thwart Iran terror ‘wherever it raises its head’

PM’s office says Israel operates widely and ‘in every place to protect Jews and Israelis,’ after Nicosia foils alleged Iranian-planned terror op in island nation

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the former head of the research division in the IDF’s Military Intelligence division and former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs outside the Nomi Studios in Jerusalem, June 21, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

ToI podcastWhat Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative picture of a Chabad center on Cyprus, September 2005, in the port city of Larnaca (Marina PASSOS / AFP)

June 26, 2023, 9:59 am

Iran said to target Israeli businessman, Chabad House, hotels in Cyprus terror plot

Greek intelligence services also arrest 7 Pakistan nationals said recruited by Tehran to carry out attacks in Greece, international arrest warrant issued for cell’s leader

By ToI Staff

June 25, 2023, 11:05 pm

After Cyprus plot, Israel vows to thwart Iran terror ‘wherever it raises its head’

PM’s office says Israel operates widely and ‘in every place to protect Jews and Israelis,’ after Nicosia foils alleged Iranian-planned terror op in island nation

By ToI Staff

Illustrative -- A motorcyclist police officer escorts and guards a police van, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 24, 2019 (Petros Karadjias/AP)

June 25, 2023, 12:04 pm

Cyprus thwarts Iranian attack targeting Jews and Israelis — reports

Planned terror attack said foiled by intelligence services cooperating with Israeli, US counterparts; reportedly connected to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

By ToI Staff

June 23, 2023, 5:56 am

What Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave

After a bloody week, a leading intelligence expert analyses recent IDF successes in the West Bank, offers points for improvement and tells us what keeps him up at night

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Nurses work in a COVID-19 ward of the Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

June 22, 2023, 9:26 pm

15 die of poisoning in Iran after drinking bootleg booze, state media says

Another 180 hospitalized after imbibing black market drinks, a recurring problem in a country where alcohol is outlawed

By AFP

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a press conference following a meeting with his Omani counterpart, in Muscat on June 21, 2023. (AFP)

June 22, 2023, 2:51 pm

Iranian FM visits UAE, invites president to meet his counterpart Raisi in Tehran

Rounding off three-day Gulf tour, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with President bin Zayed Al Nahyan

By AFP

Belgium's Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib speaks to the press during a NATO foreign affairs ministers' meeting, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on April 4, 2023. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

June 21, 2023, 4:55 am

Belgian official resigns, foreign minister on hot seat over junket for Tehran mayor

Pascel Smet steps down as top diplomat for Brussels Region state, saying taxpayers should not have funded trips; Hadja Lahbib urged to follow suit for granting visas to visitors

By Canaan Lidor

In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police while in custody, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (Middle East Images/AP)

June 19, 2023, 10:22 pm

Iran accuses 20 countries, including Israel, of fomenting Mahsa Amini protests

Intelligence officer claims Emirati and Israeli officials held meetings in unnamed Arab country to back demonstrations

By AFP

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Intel's Kiryat Gat plant on November 14, 2016 (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO)

June 19, 2023, 1:45 pm

Daily Briefing June 19: Tension before Israel Bar election; Intel vote of confidence

ToI editor David Horovitz discusses Smotrich and US-Iran talks, as Knesset correspondent Tal Schneider explains why choosing the bar association’s chief matters so much now

By ToI Staff

Barbara Leaf, US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, speaks to reporters at a media roundtable in Kuwait City on October 19, 2022. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)

June 18, 2023, 9:32 am

Senior US official arrives in Israel as Washington said to eye Iran deal

Barbara Leaf, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, slated to meet both political and military leaders and discuss ‘constraining Iran’s destabilizing behavior’

By ToI Staff

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, visits an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements, at his office compound in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Via AP)

June 17, 2023, 6:03 am

US said to reassure Israel on security amid reports of emerging interim Iran deal

Washington reportedly says Jerusalem will maintain military edge and free hand to act against adversaries in the Middle East

By ToI Staff

Mourners hold up pictures of people who died in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people on the 25th anniversary of the attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 2019. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

June 16, 2023, 5:26 am

Argentina seeks arrest of 4 Lebanese suspects in 1994 bombing of AMIA Jewish center

Suspects are ’employees or operational agents’ of Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, long believed to be behind attack that killed 85, with Iran’s help

By AFP and ToI Staff

Visiting Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Mikhail Bogdanov, right, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Special Representative of the President of Russia for the Middle East, review an honor guard during a welcome ceremony upon Assad's arrival at Vnukovo airport in Moscow, Russia, March 14, 2023. (SANA via AP)

June 14, 2023, 12:48 pm

Deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Iran, Turkey to hold summit

Meeting to take place in Kazakhstan on June 21, says Moscow; four countries have all played roles in Syrian civil war

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows missiles in the sky near the international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (SANA via AP)

June 14, 2023, 3:58 am

Syria says soldier ‘severely wounded’ in Israeli airstrikes near Damascus

UK-based Syrian group reports hits on military warehouses belonging to Iran-backed militias; Syrian military source says attacks cause ‘material damage’

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran reportedly shows Iranian police patrolling in the capital Tehran on October 8, 2022. (AFP)

June 12, 2023, 8:52 am

Iranian cop killed by relative of slain protester — reports

Local media says car-ramming attack occurred during memorial for Kian Pirfalak, who was killed in shooting during demonstrations last year

By AFP