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24 Feb 2026, 17:55

🔸The Deputy Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic said on Tuesday, March 5, that Iran is ready to take any necessary steps to reach an agreement with the United States. Majid Takht-Ravanchi, who was interviewed by NPR in the lead-up to the third round of negotiations between Tehran and Washington, stated that any U.S. attack on Iran is "a real gamble" and added that Tehran is prepared to reach an agreement with Washington as soon as possible. Regarding a potential U.S. attack, he said, "We will respond according to our defense plans" and "everyone should know that starting a war may be easy, but ending it is not."

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🔸Reactions to the statement from the People's Mujahedin Organization, which claimed that about "250 members" of the organization attacked the office and residence of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic in central Tehran, continue. The organization announced in its statement last night that its forces attacked this location early Monday morning and caused damage, but "100 of them" were killed or arrested. The People's Mujahedin Organization stated that their operation or attack began at dawn and continued until the afternoon of Monday, March 4, at the "Motahari Complex" within the residence of the Supreme Leader. The statement added that "150 out of the 250 members of this organization returned safely to their bases." Some Iranian news agencies have denied reports regarding this incident. Ahmad Bakhshaei Ardestani, a member of the National Security Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, said, "I doubt they can carry out such actions. However, I am not specifically aware of this news and do not know if such an event occurred."

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🔸Yesterday, news emerged about the hacking of the Sharif University of Technology's website, with the logos of some of its pages changed to the pre-revolution version, namely "Arya Mehr University of Technology." The university's public relations office announced this morning, Tuesday, March 5, that following a series of "cyber attacks" on the university's main site, it has been temporarily taken offline "to protect data and prevent any potential damage."

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🔸On Monday, hours after news circulated on social media that a text message stating "The President of the United States is a man of action" was sent to thousands of mobile numbers in Iran, the Fars news agency confirmed the report. Fars, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, wrote that one of the mass messaging systems in the country had been hacked. The text message, which Fars reported was sent to 50,000 numbers, read: "To the oppressed people of Iran, the President of the United States is a man of action; you will see soon."

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🔸Lindsey Graham, a senior Republican senator, praised Donald Trump's efforts in using diplomacy towards Iran on the eve of the new round of negotiations between Iran and the U.S. in Geneva, adding, "But we must understand that we are dealing with an insincere party." In recent remarks about the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, he stated that no agreement can change his "nature." Graham emphasized in a post on X and in a conversation with Sean Hannity, an American political analyst and host, who published the audio file of this conversation on his account, that "ultimately, we must remove the Ayatollah." According to Graham, "Currently, two fishing lines have been cast into the water. One is a diplomatic line aimed at finding a way to diplomatically end the Iranian regime... and the other is a military option." Graham added that he believes the U.S. President is looking to see "which line catches the bigger fish."

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