CBS News' Seyed Rahim Bathaei has covered Iran for more than 35 years, and he expected the tension with Israel to boil over eventually. He didn't expect the United States to get so involved.

Operations in the decadeslong secret war between Iran and Israel have shifted fundamentally in recent years, moving from ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was injured during an Israeli strike, sources told CBS News — though it's unclear if he was intentionally targeted.

David Barnea, the director of the Mossad, led Israel’s efforts to recruit Iranian dissidents to attack the country from ...

Iran warned Sunday that it had little faith in Israel's commitment to a fragile ceasefire that ended the most intense and destructive confrontation between the two foes to date. "We have serious ...

According to Netanyahu, the initial "first stage" of the operation saw dozens of Israeli Air Force jets strike at "the heart of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program," specifically targeting the ...

Israel learned from the 2024 attacks. During the 12-day war in June, Israel focused on taking out Iranian missile launchers, and it appears many of them were destroyed in the war.

On June 13, 2025, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a massive campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear program, air defenses, ballistic missile infrastructure, and senior military leaders and ...

Israel’s plan to kill more than a dozen of Iran’s top nuclear scientists all at once was the culmination of a decade and a half of stalking and targeting — and seemed so far-fetched, it was ...

The UN nuclear watchdog will visit Iran within the next two weeks, Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. It will be the first such visit since Tehran passed a parliamentary bill ...

After U.S. airstrikes on some of Iran's nuclear facilities, followed days later by a ceasefire to end what Mr. Trump called the 12-day war between Iran and Israel, Iran's foreign minister seemed ...