Israel’s economy slumped in the second quarter as the country’s 12-day war with Iran imposed a total shutdown on many businesses.

Iran has executed two men in separate cases, accusing one of spying for Israel and another of being a member of the Islamic State group.

The agents cajoled people into acts of sabotage and even assassination plots. The cases have raised questions about greed, gullibility and loyalty.

Israel had long planned an attack on Iran but delayed it until several factors aligned: Donald Trump’s election in the US, the conclusion of a 60-day period of nuclear negotiations, and specific Iranian attacks.

This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at the back-and-forth between Iran’s president and Israel’s prime minister over Iran's water crisis.

Israel killed 14 veteran Iranian nuclear scientists, but the know-how is likely to have remained, Brewer said. “Iran is clearly not willing to abandon its nuclear program,” he said.

Sahar Delijani is an Iranian American writer in New York City. The clock in Evin Prison stopped just before noon on June 23. That was the hour Israeli bombs tore through the compound, heavily ...

Iran's Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh (second from left) joins SCO counterparts in a meeting in China's Qingdao a day after the Israel-Iran ceasefire last month. Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images

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Israel relied on its existing refueling fleet of aging converted Boeing 707 tankers and Lockheed Martin KC-130 Hercules during its 12-day air campaign against Iran in June.