The Iranian armed forces are confident that Israeli Mossad employed agents from the Ansar al-Mahdi unit, part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, to assassinate Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.

The timing of the alleged assassination attempt on former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, following his implicit condemnation of the attack on former U.S. President Donald Trump, raises significant questions about its authenticity.

Despite being initially disqualified by Iran's Guardian Council in 2021 for lacking qualifications, Masoud Pezeshkian later ran in the latest electoral race following direct intervention from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, reasons undisclosed.

The opinion polls in Iran proved accurate as the reformist politician, Masoud Pezeshkian, secured the presidency following Ebrahim Raisi's departure due to a plane crash on May 19, 2024.

On the morning of May 20, 2024, the official IRNA news agency announced the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Abdollahian, and their accompanying delegation in a helicopter crash in East Azerbaijan Province, in the northwest of the country.