Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the court responsible for his corruption trial to postpone his testimony, citing “security concerns.”

His lawyer made the request in a court filing on Friday.

Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial was set to resume on Sunday, after Israel lifted a state of emergency imposed over its war of aggression on Iran following Wednesday’s ceasefire announcement.

The defense said it was prepared to continue ⁠hearing the testimony of a prosecution witness.

“Due to classified security and diplomatic reasons connected … to the dramatic events that have taken place … in recent times, the Prime Minister will not be able to testify in the proceeding for at least the next two weeks,” the filing said.

It said that a sealed envelope detailing the classified ‌reasons ⁠was delivered to the court, which will rule once the prosecution submits its response.

Netanyahu, the first sitting Israeli prime minister to be charged with a crime, denies charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust brought in ⁠2019 after years of investigations.

His trial, which began in 2020 and could lead to jail terms, has been repeatedly delayed due to various wars his cabinet has initiated, including the Gaza genocide since 2023, which has killed at least 72,000 Palestinians, two wars of aggression against Iran in 2025 and 2026, and recurring assaults on Lebanon since 2023, with ⁠no end date in sight.

The charges against Netanyahu, along with the al-Aqsa Flood Operation conducted by Palestinians resistance movements in October 2023, have damaged his standing.

Israel is due to hold an election in October that Netanyahu’s coalition, the most right-wing in Israel’s history, is likely to lose, according to polls.

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The Iranian president says the continuation of a temporary ceasefire agreement depends on the adherence of the United States to its commitments.

Masoud Pezeshkian made the remarks during a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, one day after a two-week truce went into force between Tehran and Washington to pave the way for negotiations.

The Pakistan-mediated ceasefire deal followed the failure of the US and the Israeli regime to achieve their objectives after 41 days of war against the Iranian nation.

“Iran’s responsible approach towards accepting the ceasefire is in line with preserving regional stability and preventing the spread of clashes,” he said, adding that the truce’s “continuation depends on the opposite side’s adherence to its commitments.”

Pezeshkian also expressed gratitude to the efforts of friendly countries to stop the illegal US-Israeli act of aggression against Iran and praised Turkey’s condemnation of the military assault and the Turkish nation’s solidarity with the Iranian nation during the imposed war.

“Despite the United States’ betrayal of diplomacy and attacks against Iran during the last two rounds of negotiations, the Islamic Republic maintained its responsible stance and accepted the request of neighboring and friendly states to stop fighting and establish a ceasefire,” he said.

Both US-Israeli wars against Iran, including the 12-day aggression in June 2025 and this year’s 41-day war, occurred amid indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States.

The latest criminal US-Israeli aggression on Iran began on February 28 with airstrikes that assassinated senior Iranian officials and commanders.

Iranian armed forces responded by launching daily missile and drone operations targeting locations in the Israeli-occupied territories as well as US military bases and assets across the region.

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Iran has declared a “historic and crushing defeat” of the United States and the Israeli regime after 40 days of war, announcing that Washington has been forced to accept a 10-point Iranian proposal that includes a permanent ceasefire, the lifting of all sanctions, and the withdrawal of US combat forces from the region.

In a statement addressed to the “noble, great, and heroic nation of Iran,” the Supreme National Security Council said the enemy had suffered an undeniable defeat and now saw “no way forward but to submit to the will of the great nation of Iran and the honorable Axis of Resistance.”

The announcement comes on Day 40 of the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran, which began with the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and top-ranking commanders on February 28.

According to the statement, the United States has agreed to a 10-point proposal that fundamentally commits Washington to:

No new aggression against Iran

Continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz

Acceptance of enrichment

Removal of all primary sanctions

Removal of all secondary sanctions

Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions

Termination of all Board of Governors resolutions

Payment of compensation to Iran

Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region

Cessation of war on all fronts, including against the heroic Islamic Resistance of Lebanon

“Iran has achieved a great victory and has forced criminal America to accept its own 10-point proposal,” the statement read.

The statement by the top security body described the past 40 days as one of the “heaviest combined battles in history,” in which Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and occupied Palestine inflicted blows that “the historical memory of the world will never forget.”

“Iran and the Resistance have almost completely destroyed the American military machine in the region,” it stated. “They have inflicted crushing and deep blows on the vast infrastructure and capabilities that the enemy had built and deployed around the region over many years for this war against Iran.”

The statement added that within the occupied territories, Resistance forces had dealt “devastating and crushing blows to the enemy’s forces, infrastructure, facilities, and assets.”

It further stated that the United States understood as early as 10 days into the war that it could not win.

“Not only did none of the enemy’s main objectives materialize, but the enemy realized from about 10 days after the start of the war that it would have no ability to win this war,” the statement said. “For this reason, through various channels and methods, the enemy began efforts to establish contact with Iran and request a ceasefire.”

The top security body further said the enemy had initially imagined a quick military victory, believing Iran’s missile and drone capabilities would be “quickly extinguished,” and noted that the “vile global Zionism” had convinced the “ignorant President of the United States” that the war would finish Iran.

While declaring victory, the top security body also urged continued vigilance.

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Satellite imaging company Planet Labs says it will indefinitely withhold visuals of American military losses to comply with a censorship request from US President Donald Trump amid the ongoing US-Israeli aggression against Iran.

In an email to customers on Saturday, the US company announced that the Trump administration had asked satellite imagery providers to impose an “indefinite withhold of imagery.”

Planet Labs further said that it would now switch to a “managed distribution of images” deemed not to pose a risk to safety.

The firm, which was founded in 2010 by former NASA scientists, will release imagery on a case-by-case basis for urgent, “mission-critical requirements or in the public interest.”

“These are extraordinary circumstances, and we are doing all we can to balance the needs of all our stakeholders,” the California-based firm said.

The restriction expands upon a 14-day delay on imagery of the Persian Gulf and West Asia region that Planet Labs implemented last month, which extended an initial 96-hour delay.

The firm said the move was meant to “prevent adversaries from using the imagery to attack the US and its allies.”

Planet Labs said it will withhold imagery dating back to March 9 and that it expects the policy to remain in effect until the end of the war.

The US and Israel started a fresh round of military aggression against Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.

The US-Israeli aggression led to the martyrdom of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and hundreds of Iranian civilians, including women and children, as well as several senior military commanders.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missiles and drone attacks on Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases and interests in regional countries.

Source: Press TV

The senior spokesman for Iran’s Armed Forces says the country will continue the war as long as it makes the United States and the Israeli regime “regret” their illegal act of aggression.

Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi made the remarks on Friday, the 35th day of the criminal US-Israeli military assault that has triggered Iran’s powerful reprisal attacks against the enemies.

“Our strategy is not limited to eye-for-an-eye or reciprocal actions. Our strategy is to punish the aggressor so that it fully regrets [its move] and to guarantee the permanent removal of the threat posed to the nation,” he said.

“The goal is not to announce a ceasefire today and see the resumption of the aggression tomorrow under various pretexts, with people feeling worried and remaining in anxiety.”

Shekarchi also noted that the world has realized the invincibility of the Islamic Republic, which stems from its large capacity.

Many countries in the world condemn the imposed war on Iran while many of Washington’s allies are not willing to join it as they see the catastrophe caused by the US’s presence in the region, he added.

The unprovoked US-Israeli aggression on Iran began on February 28 with airstrikes that assassinated senior Iranian officials and commanders.

The Iranian Armed Forces have responded by launching daily missile and drone operations targeting locations in the Israeli-occupied territories as well as US military bases and assets across the region.

They have also blocked the Strait of Hormuz to oil and gas tankers affiliated with the adversaries and those cooperating with them in an attempt to maintain security at the strategic waterway.

The US has sought to form a coalition to open the strait, asking NATO countries to contribute naval and air assets. However, most of Washington’s allies have declined to commit forces.

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Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov says the United States and Israel are seeking to pit the Arab states of the Persian Gulf region against Iran amid the US-Israeli military aggression against the Islamic Republic.

The top Russian diplomat said on Tuesday that Washington and Tel Aviv did not want normalization of ties between Tehran and its neighbors.

He cautioned that the war of aggression in the West Asia region could spiral into a wider conflict.

Lavrov highlighted that the US plots against Iran and Venezuela are aimed at gaining control over their oil and gas reserves.

The United States and Israel launched a bloody onslaught against Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and several high-ranking military commanders despite indirect Tehran-Washington negotiations on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

In response, Iranian Armed Forces have carried out waves of retaliatory missile and drone operations against US interests across West Asia and Israeli positions in the occupied territories.

Source: Press TV

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has hit American-Israeli command centers, drone hangars, and pilot hideouts in new missile strikes on their military installations in the region.

In a statement, the IRGC said the targets were hit using ballistic missiles as part of the 87th wave of Operation True Promise 4.

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Arab states in the Persian Gulf region hosting permanent US military bases no longer meet the legal definition of fully sovereign nations and therefore have no standing to object to Iran’s right to defend itself against American aggression, says a lawyer.

Reza Nasri, an international lawyer and foreign policy analyst, citing black-letter international law, in a post on X, said countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan have effectively surrendered a core attribute of statehood: the exclusive capacity to enter relations with other states.

Nasri based his argument on Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, which defines a sovereign state by four cumulative criteria: a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and — crucially — “the capacity to enter into relations with other States.”

Drawing on landmark international arbitrations such as the Island of Palmas case (1928) and the Lotus case (1927), Nasri emphasized that this capacity requires exclusive and independent authority over territory and external affairs, free from subordination to any other external power.

According to Nasri, the permanent presence of US military bases under Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs) systematically strips host Arab states of that exclusivity.

These agreements typically grant US forces extraterritorial immunity, exclusive operational command, and control over significant areas of sovereign territory.

“Local courts cannot prosecute US personnel,” Nasri noted. “Local legislatures cannot inspect bases. Host governments cannot unilaterally order eviction without risking severe economic or military retaliation.”

He further said that CIA operational centers embedded within or alongside these bases conduct intelligence, surveillance, rendition, and lethal activities beyond any effective Arab oversight.

“A state that cannot control who bears arms on its soil, who conducts intelligence operations, or who decides when foreign forces depart has, by definition, surrendered the exclusivity of authority required by Montevideo,” Nasri stated.

The analyst further remarked that these states have become, in legal terms, “semi-sovereign protectorates, leased territory, or modern vassals in all but name.”

Having voluntarily or under duress forsaken the fourth Montevideo criterion, they cannot invoke the full protections of sovereign equality under the UN Charter (Article 2(1)) or the principle of non-intervention (Article 2(7)) — particularly against the very power whose bases they host, he asserted.

Nasri asserted that Arab host states lack standing to object when Iran exercises its inherent right of self-defense against American aggression emanating from bases on Arab soil.

“Symbols of statehood such as flags, UN membership, and national anthems confer no genuine sovereignty when the fundamental attributes of independence have been surrendered,” he said. “Least of all the standing to object when Iran exercises its inherent right of self-defense against American aggression emanating from bases on Arab soil.”

His remarks come as tensions continue to rise in the Persian Gulf region over the complicity of some Arab states in the American-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.

Iranian armed forces have in recent weeks carried out waves of retaliatory missile and drone strikes targeting American bases and assets across the region.

Iran had previously warned the regional countries against allowing their soil or airspace to be used for any act of aggression against the Islamic Republic.

Source: Press TV

Iran is reportedly considering its withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) after the United States and Israeli regime carried out attacks on the country’s nuclear sites.

A number of institutions in Iran, including the Parliament, are urgently reviewing the issue of the country’s withdrawal from the NPT, Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.

It is becoming firmly established in Iran that there is no justification for remaining in the NPT, it added.

According to the NPT, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must provide conditions for the protection and support of Iran’s access to peaceful nuclear technology and its equipment, it noted.

However, it said, when IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi implicitly encourages the enemy to attack Iran’s facilities, and the US and Israel carry out such attacks without any hindrance or condemnation from the IAEA, there remains no justification for Iran to stay in the NPT.

The report emphasized that withdrawal from the NPT does not mean moving towards nuclear weapons; rather, it is about “preventing the continuation of spying by the US and Israel under the guise of IAEA inspectors.”

In a statement released on Friday, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) confirmed that the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant had been struck by a projectile, marking the third attack on the facility.

The AEOI added that the projectile hit the plant earlier in that day, saying initial reports indicated that the incident caused no human, financial, or technical damage.

The US and Israel also targeted the Khondab heavy water complex in the central Iranian city of Arak on Friday for the second time after they attacked the complex during the 12-day war last June.

 Also on Friday, they carried out a strike against a yellowcake production facility in the city of Ardakan in the central province of Yazd.

Iran has repeatedly emphasized that targeting peaceful nuclear facilities constituted a clear violation of international regulations and obligations regarding the immunity of such sites from military attacks.

Source: Press TV