Assassination

The ayatollahs’ eyes and ears: Inside Iran’s intelligence ministry - analysis

Khatib was not your average minister. Appointed by Khamenei in 2021, he was a Shia cleric with deep roots in the security world and a history inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

|ByALEX WINSTON
A SATELLITE image shows a closer view of the buildings of the Intelligence Ministry in Tehran, Iran, February 22, 2026, before airstrikes.
Israel Police and Border Police officers arrest suspected assassins in northern Israel, February 10, 2026.

Israel Police arrests hit squad in Triangle region, seizes weapons and drugs

Israel Police and Border Police arrested five suspected assassins in the Triangle region, seizing stolen IDF ammo, explosive parts, drugs, and tens of thousands of shekels in cash.

|ByJAMES GENN
Brenton Tarrant, the gunman who shot and killed worshippers in the Christchurch mosque attacks, listens as Crown prosecutor Mark Zarifeh delivers his submission during Tarrant's sentencing at the High Court in Christchurch, New Zealand, August 27, 2020.

New Zealand mosque gunman appeals conviction, says guilty plea was irrational

He is serving a life sentence in prison without parole - the first time a New Zealand court imposed a sentence requiring a person to spend the rest of their life in prison.

|ByREUTERS
US President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet in the situation room during US strikes on Iran, June 22, 2025.

If Iran tries to kill me, country gets 'blown up,' US President Donald Trump declares

"Anything ever happens, the whole country is going to get blown up,” Trump said and added, "I would absolutely hit them so hard. But I have very firm instructions.”

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jury convicts men after foiled Iran-funded assassination attempt of journalist

Prosecutors said Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov were to be paid $500,000 by Iran for the assassination.

MARCH 21, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Defendants Polad Omarev and Rafat Amirov watch as Masih Alinejad, a New York-based journalist who left Iran in 2009 and is known for outspoken criticism of the government in Tehran and its treatment of women, reacts during questioning during their trial at a courtroom in New York, U.S., March 10, 2

Declassified JFK assassination files reveal Oswald's Soviet ties

Trump has also promised to release documents on the assassinations of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy, both of whom were killed in 1968.

MARCH 19, 2025ByREUTERS
President John F. Kennedy signs a proclamation for the interdiction of the delivery of offensive weapons to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis, at the White House in Washington in this handout photograph taken on October 23, 1962

Breakdown in Gaza ceasefire talks could trigger IDF 'high-level' assassinations - report

Such assassinations and commando operations could lead to escalation and a gradual heating up of the situation, said sources.

MARCH 7, 2025ByLIRAN HARONI, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF soldiers operate in Jenin

IDF releases footage of assassination of Nasrallah on day of funeral

The attack involved a decade of intelligence collected both by the IDF and the Mossad, as well as a variety of last-minute deceptions.

FEBRUARY 23, 2025ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the neighbourhood of Dahiyeh, Beirut. Illustrative.

'Everything will be revealed': Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, MLK assassinations

"Everything will be revealed," Trump said as he signed the order, then holding it up.

JANUARY 23, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on AI, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2025.

EU must designate IRGC as a terror organization - opinion

The EU must take decisive action to counter the growing threat posed by Iran and the IRGC.

JANUARY 23, 2025ByAIDIN PANAHI, ANDREW GHALILI
‘A MONSTER’ – Members of the IRGC attend a ground forces military drill in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran in 2022.

Fear for his life: Did Khamenei wear a bulletproof vest at funeral of assassinated judges? - report

Two days after the murder, Iran still doesn't know the motive of the assassinations, sparking rumors of civil unrest.

JANUARY 20, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays over the bodies of two assassinated Supreme Court Judges, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini in Tehran, Iran, January 19, 2025.

45 years after the assassination: New evidence surfaces in Palermo Mafia hit case

Piersanti Mattarella was assassinated in front of his home in Palermo while in a car with his wife as they were heading to Epiphany Day Mass.

JANUARY 9, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palermo, Italy. New evidence surfaces in high-profile Mafia hit case.

Israel should strike Houthi leadership, anti-Houthi Yemeni figures say - report

The figure urged Israel to target one of the Houthi's key military commanders, Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim, who he described as the "military brain" of the Houthis.

DECEMBER 21, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Houthi follower wears a vest portraying the Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi during a parade held as part of a 'popular army' mobilization campaign by the movement, in Sanaa, Yemen February 7, 2024.

Canada foils Iranian plot to assassinate pro-Israel human rights lawyer - report

Irwin Cotler is a human rights lawyer, a member of Parliament, and former justice minister in a Liberal government, serving between 2003 and 2006.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Irwin Cotler participates in the Organization of American States (OAS) news conference with a panel of independent international experts who will present their conclusions and recommendations on "whether crimes against humanity have been committed in Venezuela, in Washington, US, May 29, 2018.