Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
23 August 2025 - Iran Special Weapons News
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- Trump administration fires general who said attacks on Iran's nuclear sites had minimal effect Press TV 23 Aug 2025 -- Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth has dismissed a general whose agency's initial intelligence assessment—stating that the June strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities caused only limited damage—sparked anger from President Donald Trump, reports say.
- IRGC chief vows 'more crushing response' to renewed Israeli aggression IRNA 23 Aug 2025 -- The commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned that the Israeli regime will receive a more "crushing response" in case of any new act of aggression against Iran.
- Araghchi: 12-day war to be documented legally and historically IRNA 23 Aug 2025 -- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the events of the recent 12-day war will be comprehensively documented both legally and historically by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- 12-day US-Israeli aggression set roadmap for Iran's defense industry: Minister Press TV 23 Aug 2025 -- Iran's defense minister says that the 12-day US-Israeli aggression against Iran served to clarify the roadmap for the country's defense industry, which would include research and innovation for new technologies against the enemy.
- Russia: E3 lacks strategy to exit 'deadlock' once snapback activated against Iran IRNA 23 Aug 2025 -- Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna has once again warned Britain, France, and Germany—collectively known as the E3 or European Troika— against triggering the snapback mechanism stipulated in the 2015 nuclear deal or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
- Europe lacks strategy to break snapback 'deadlock': Russia envoy Press TV 23 Aug 2025 -- A senior Russian diplomat says the European troika—Britain, France, and Germany—lack a clear strategy to break the "deadlock" they are poised to create if they follow through on their threat to invoke the "snapback" mechanism against Iran.
- Iran, IAEA make progress in Vienna talks: Ambassador IRNA 23 Aug 2025 -- Tehran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Iranian representatives and the agency have made progress in their latest round of talks in Vienna.
- Larijani: Iranians are not the kind to surrender IRNA 23 Aug 2025 -- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani has dismissed threats of war against the country, saying that Iranians are not the kind to surrender.
- Envoy: UN and Security Council should unequivocally condemn terrorist attack in Iran IRNA 23 Aug 2025 -- Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani said in a letter to the Security Council regarding the terrorist attack in Sistan and Baluchestan in Southeastern Iran that the Islamic Republic calls on the Security Council and the UN Secretary-General to condemn this heinous act of terrorism in the strongest possible terms and without any ambiguity.
- Intelligence forces disband terror team in southeastern Iran, seize US-made munitions Press TV 23 Aug 2025 -- Iranian intelligence forces have dismantled a team of terrorists in the country's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, close to the border with Pakistan, killing six of them and capturing two others alive.
- Envoy calls on UN chief, UNSC to condemn terror attack on police forces in SE Iran Press TV 23 Aug 2025 -- Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani has called on the UN chief and the UN Security Council to condemn in the strongest terms possible a recent deadly terrorist attack on police forces in the country's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
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