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[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Thursday the military was “alert and prepared for the resumption of the campaign” in Iran and ready to carry out “blue-and-white” (independent Israeli) strikes there “even for a third time.”

“If we need to return, we will return with even greater force,” Katz said.

Katz said he had warned former supreme leader Ali Khamenei that Israel’s “long arm” would reach Iran if it tried to harm Israel.

“Exactly a year ago, I sent a direct message to the dictator Ali Khamenei and the group of ayatollahs in Iran, that Israel’s long arm will catch up with them in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and wherever if they try to harm Israel,” Katz said.

“About four months ago, we returned to operating in the skies of Iran; we eliminated many of the regime’s seniors, and in the historic opening blow of Operation Roaring Lion, we eliminated Ali Khamenei and severely wounded his successor, Mojtaba Khamenei,” he added.

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[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Videos released by Iranian state media showed that no senior Iranian official was present in the front row of funeral prayers for Ali Khamenei in Mashhad, led by his eldest son Mostafa. However, some officials including Ghalibaf, Ejei, Mokhber and Hassan Khomeini were seen attending the event.

[Ehsan Eghbal Eslami @Ehsaneghbale]

🚨 Iran: Regime supporters in Mashhad: “The killer of the Leader’s only punishment is the hangman’s noose.”

The regime’s culture of violence and hypocrisy on full display, calling for Khamenei’s killer to be executed while posters reading “Trump, we will kill you” were on display.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Mourners carried placards calling for the killing of US President Donald Trump as Ali Khamenei's funeral procession reached the northeastern city of Mashhad on Thursday — the final leg before his burial there — amid renewed hostilities between Iran and the US amid a fragile ceasefire deal.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Videos released by Iranian state media showed a coffin said to contain Ali Khamenei’s remains arriving at Mashhad’s Imam Reza shrine in a refrigerated truck, shortly before his planned burial there on Thursday night.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Iranians in Britain staged an exhibition titled "Corridor of Crimes of Ali Khamenei" in London's Trafalgar Square on Wednesday, on the eve of the slain Iranian leader's burial in Mashhad. Each stand displayed a date and the major killings carried out under his rule — from the 1998 chain murders of dissidents and the crackdown on the 2009 Green Movement, to Bloody November in 2019, the Woman, Life, Freedom protests of 2022, and the January 2026 massacre.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Videos from Ali Khamenei’s final state-run funeral in Mashhad on Thursday night showed Islamic Republic loyalists chanting “death to America” and “death to Israel” while calling for revenge over the slain supreme leader’s death.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

#BREAKING A senior official in Iran’s southern Bushehr province said explosions heard in the city on Thursday were caused by air defense fire against US drones, while a military site on the outskirts of Bushehr was also struck by what he called a “US-Israeli” projectile.

He added that no casualties had been reported so far from the strike on the military site.

The deputy governor for political and security affairs said the “timely response” of air defenses prevented enemy drones from carrying out an attack.

A video released by IRGC-affiliated Sabereen News appears to show the aftermath of the Bushehr blast.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Iranians living in New Zealand and Finland held protest gatherings outside the Islamic Republic's embassies in Wellington and Helsinki on Thursday, videos sent to Iran International show. Demonstrators carried pre-revolution Lion and Sun flags and placards, with the Finland expatriates voicing opposition to any potential US deal with Iran.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

UK Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel accused Iran of violating the ceasefire by attacking commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and striking UK allies including Bahrain and Kuwait.

“The terrorist regime in Tehran has once again violated the ceasefire,” Patel said.

Patel said the latest attacks in the strait were the highest in a single day since late April and questioned what the British government was doing to protect thousands of British nationals in the region.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Calls for Trump’s assassination featured prominently at Ali Khamenei’s funeral, where participants carried placards offering a $100 million reward for his killing.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Israel has given the US urgent intelligence that there is another plot to assassinate President Trump-WSJ

[Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza]

Six months ago, tonight, Tehran went dark. All of Iran went dark. And into that darkness, millions of Iranians walked out of their homes anyway.

January 8th and 9th were not just two nights of protest. They were the night Iran's silence broke. Millions came into the streets, into the squares, onto their rooftops — but the regime answered them with bullets. Tens of thousands of my compatriots were killed in those forty-eight hours. Tens of thousands more have been arrested, tortured, and sentenced to die since.

They came out, determined and brave. I think of them every day. On those two nights I lost countrymen I will never get to meet. I do not hear a statistic when I hear the number 40,000. I see a son who did not come home to his mother. A daughter who will not sit at her family's table again. I think of each of them the way I would think of my own child, my own brother, my own sister. I carry the weight of every one of those names. But the families of the fallen I meet with, week after week, hearten our nation's will to carry on. Their children did not die in vain. They died for freedom, and they died with pride.

History will remember what these men and women did; I will make sure of it. Like the resistance who stood against tyranny in occupied Europe, and like the revolutionaries who fought for liberty in America. But theirs was a particular bravery. They had no army, no air cover, nothing but the belief in what they stood for. They stood anyway. A united nation choosing to face the guns together rather than live one more day in fear. The men and women of the 8th and 9th of January will be remembered in Iran's history as the greatest generation that preferred to die free and standing than to live cowered on their knees.

To the international community, I ask this: do not let a negotiating table in Geneva or Islamabad erase what happened in the streets of Tehran, Mashhad, and Kermanshah. They died for freedom. And when they are free, the Strait of Hormuz will open. The nuclear threat will end. And we will have true peace.

I have told my compatriots: what you did on January 8th and 9th cannot be undone. Together, we will reclaim our country’s rightful place in the world, our national dignity, and honor the lives of our heroes. Now is the time to reassess, regroup, and rededicate ourselves to victory.

We honor the fallen by finishing what they started. A free Iran is no longer a matter of hope. It is a matter of fact.

And know that my brave compatriots are not just fighting for their own liberation but for the peace and stability of the world.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷 Hormuz traffic crashed after the latest U.S.-Iran escalation.

Ships are avoiding the main Omani lane like it's on fire, with zero big traceable transits since July 7.

Brent crude jumping as traders freak out over fresh supply risks.

Writer: Lucas

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This wasn’t just a funeral. It was a gathering of authoritarian allies and terrorist proxies celebrating one of the world’s most brutal dictators.

Independent estimates place the cost at around $800 million, although the regime has never released an official accounting.
My interview with @CBSNews , all you need to know about Khamenei’s funeral and what ordinary people of Iran feel about his death.

[Nazi Hunters @HuntersOfNazis]

Looks like it’s not the U.S. attacking in Iran, but Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates 🇧🇭🇰🇼🇦🇪

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Exiled Iranian prince Reza Pahlavi on Thursday marked six months since the January 8–9 protests, urging the international community not to let negotiations with Tehran overshadow the killing of tens of thousands of demonstrators, and arguing that a free Iran would end the nuclear threat and secure lasting peace in the region.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷 Iran says fighter jets hit its navy base at Konarak, but don't say who those jetys belong to

Axios says it wasn't the Americans, and no indications it was the Israelis. Who's left? The Gulf, and some Israeli media is claiming it was Bahrain and Kuwait

The navy's military zone in Konarak has been struck by enemy fighter jets in two separate waves this evening, according to IRNA, citing the town's governor.

That's a step up from the earlier chatter, an Iranian official now naming a clear target, the aircraft, and the fact it came in two rounds.

Konarak sits on the Makran coast in Sistan and Baluchestan, on the western shore of the Gulf of Oman.

Source: Tabz (TG) / Writer: Daniyal

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Big news from Iran tonight.

At a checkpoint near Mashhad, several basiji thugs were reportedly shot dead by armed assassins.

Not an American airstrike. Shot dead.

Likely by Iranian opposition.

[The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 @TheIranWatcher]

🚨 A heartbreaking encounter that became a hallmark of the Islamic Republic’s psychological cruelty: a leftist activist, his religious mother, and a regime that used her as a pawn.

In 1981, Mahmoud Tarigholeslami, an Iranian left-wing political activist, was arrested during the Islamic Republic’s brutal purge of opposition groups.

Like many leftists, he had opposed the Shah and helped create the revolutionary climate that brought the clerical regime to power.

But once the Islamic Republic consolidated control, it turned on many of the same leftist revolutionaries who had helped overthrow the monarchy.

Before his execution, the regime arranged what Mahmoud believed was a private final meeting with his mother.

Crying and desperate, he pleaded with her, believing she had come to save his life.

What he did not know was that the Islamic Republic had secretly installed cameras. His deeply religious mother had been deceived into believing that if she persuaded him to repent, his life would be spared.

It was all a lie.

Mahmoud Tarigholeslami was executed by firing squad shortly afterward.

His mother later suffered a nervous breakdown.

For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly aired this footage on state television to glorify ideological loyalty over family, intimidate political prisoners, and teach that devotion to the regime must come before one’s own child.

It remains one of the clearest examples of how the Islamic Republic weaponized family, faith, and grief as instruments of propaganda and repression.