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Iran says changed balance of power, proved era of hit-and-run over
The acting defense minister says Iran altered the balance of power in West Asia, urging respect in dealing with the country.

The acting defense minister says Iran altered the balance of power in West Asia, urging respect in dealing with the country.
Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian-Serb general convicted of genocide and other war crimes during the Balkan wars, has died in prison aged 84.

Russia has warned that British military facilities and equipment could become targets if Ukraine continues using UK-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory.

Israel continues to provide financial and military support to criminal gangs, drug dealers, and other mercenaries in Gaza to commit war crimes in the strip on behalf of the occupying regime’s army, a report says.

Three US journalists dismissed from the military news outlet Stars and Stripes file a lawsuit against the Department of War over its "extraordinary censorship efforts".

New data shows Iran’s oil sales to China have remained largely steady this year despite Washington intensifying its economic war on the country, as Tehran says crude deliveries to international customers continue.

Iran has restored about 40% of production capacity damaged at the giant South Pars gas field following repeated US-Israeli attacks, Deputy Oil Minister for Planning Ahmad Zeraatkar says/

Donald Trump has ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed “Lake America” in the US, escalating his increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Canada.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 2:00 GMT on August 28, 2026.

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has openly criticized Washington’s reckless military aggression against Iran, describing the US action as a clear “mistake.”

Iran’s embassy in Algeria marks the Prophet Mohammad’s birth anniversary with a focus on Islamic unity amid regional tensions.

The Tehran conference convenes Muslim scholars and leaders to foster unity, centering on Palestine and resistance to oppression.

Six months into Trump’s war of aggression against Iran, the US is confronting a “beyond critical” shortage of Patriot missile interceptors in Europe, accoring to a report.

Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Major General Mohsen Rezaei has said the Islamic Republic will send Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to hell” and prove that his “great mistakes” have brought the Zionist regime closer to its end.

This episode looks at whether growing regional efforts to ease Iran-US tensions and resist Washington’s secondary sanctions are reshaping the balance of power in West Asia and beyond.
Mohsen Rezaei has warned during a meeting with Qatari Prime Minister that any US aggression against Iran would draw a forceful response against American military and economic interests.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has hit back at US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after the American official accused Iran of funneling billions of dollars, saying the United States should instead spend its money on its own people.

President Masoud Pezeshkian says all the legal rights of the Iranian people must be recognized within the framework of international law.