From AI-powered missile guidance and satellite image processing to coordinated drone swarms and integrated air-defense systems, Iran is rapidly embedding artificial intelligence across its aerospace sector for both military and civilian applications

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has laid bare AI firms’ dependence on Qatari helium for chipmaking, disrupting supplies to Taiwan and South Korea and exposing the fragile physical foundations underpinning today’s technology industry.

Recent Iranian launch imagery reveals hybrid missiles combining Haj Qassem boosters with Kheybar Shekan and Fattah warhead systems, highlighting modularity, industrial resilience and evolving capabilities while debunking US-Israeli claims of degradation in the Iranian missile arsenal.

Colombia’s new right-wing president, Abelardo de la Espriella, backed by Trump, is pursuing closer US-Israeli ties, reversing his predecessor Gustavo Petro’s pro-Palestine foreign policy and reshaping Colombia’s regional alignment.

Iran marks Journalists’ Day by honoring Mahmoud Saremi, martyred while reporting the 1998 Mazar-e-Sharif attack, as well as journalists who continue reporting under fire and confronting Western propaganda.

Despite repeatedly issuing maximalist military ultimatums against Iran, US President Donald Trump has always retreated at the last moment when met with Iranian resilience, a pattern that has undermined American credibility and demonstrated the effectiveness of Tehran's strategic deterrence.

The US military's hasty withdrawal from Erbil, officially framed as a scheduled redeployment, was actually driven by Iranian precision strikes that destroyed Patriot air-defense systems there – as confirmed by satellite imagery – exposing the vulnerability of advanced US defenses to low-cost drones and forcing a strategic retreat that marks a victory for Iranian deterrence.