The warning from Iran’s UN Ambassador follows President Joe Biden’s linking of Tehran to the killing of three US soldiers at a military base in Jordan.

Tehran said it had conducted a successful launch of a satellite into its highest orbit yet, in a space programme that the West fears will improve the country’s ballistic missile capabilities.

Israeli bombing killed dozens of people overnight in Gaza, as regional tensions have surged following the killing of a Hamas leader, and deadly twin blasts in Iran killed more than 80 people.

Deputy Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri had long expected the Israeli drone strike that security sources said killed him in Beirut on Tuesday.

The leaders discussed oil and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, during a rare overseas trip by the Russian president.

Getting a tattoo in Iran has become popular, with young people not afraid to display theirs in public despite the Islamic country’s conservative attitudes. Women as well as men are getting inked.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has accused the US of “encouraging” Israel to kill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid rising tensions in the region over the Israel-Gaza war.

Pentagon warns the US will take additional measures if attacks by Iran’s proxies continue.

The US president sent a rare message to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Tehran against targeting US personnel in the Middle East after a spate of attacks on American forces in the region.

Bus-loads of PMF supporters headed for the crossing point closest to Israeli-occupied West Bank, while hundreds also gathered in Baghdad near the Green Zone, home to the US embassy and other missions.

Israel has massed troops at the Gaza border for an expected ground offensive. But an Israeli army spokesman said the next stages ‘might be something different’.

The question of Iranian access to the funds has been in the spotlight since Iran-backed Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel on Saturday.

Israel calls last week’s devastating attack by Hamas its 9/11 moment. The secretive mastermind behind the assault, Palestinian militant Mohammed Deif, calls it Al Aqsa Flood.

The Israel-Gaza war is set to put the region on a knife-edge with risks of escalation involving Iran, its Lebanon-based ally Hezbollah and even others.

There is no evidence of Iran’s involvement in the surprise weekend attack by Hamas on Tehran’s arch-enemy Israel. Iran, however, is a key sponsor of the Palestinian Islamist group.

Activists caution of renewed crackdowns and ‘chokehold on dissent’ to prevent a repeat of last year’s riots that followed the death of Mahsa Amini.

Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq’s government – two days after people angered by the planned burning of the Islamic holy book in Sweden stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.

Iraq’s prime minister has cut diplomatic ties with Sweden in protest over the desecration of the Islamic holy book in Stockholm by an Iraqi asylum seeker.

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan visited the Islamic republic on Saturday following a seven-year rupture. The two countries agreed in March to mend ties in a Chinese-brokered deal.

Ali Shamkhani will be replaced by Ali Akbar Ahmadian, who sits on the country’s Expediency Council that advises the supreme leader.

Authorities have made legal threats, closed some businesses serving women not wearing the hijab and are using CCTV to identify women without a hijab.

Industry Minister Reza Fatemi Amin failed to garner enough support in a vote of confidence and a major factor in the impeachment was the rising price of domestic vehicles after foreign imports dried up because of sanctions over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

At least ‘60 students were poisoned in a girls’ school in the town of Haftkel’ in the province of Khuzestan, state television reported. Since late November many schools, mostly girls’ schools, have been affected by sudden poisoning incidents.

Government is pointing at possible links to exiled opposition group MEK, but MEK says poisoning thousands of youngsters ‘is work of no one but regime and its repressive apparatus’.

Pupils suffered symptoms ranging from shortness of breath to nausea and vertigo after reporting ‘unpleasant’ odours on school premises.

Hundreds of respiratory poisoning cases have been reported, mainly in Qom, south of Tehran, with some needing hospital treatment.

Nationwide protests have swept Iran following the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s morality police.

Iran has seen protests since September after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, with protests morphing to calls for a new revolution.