Tel Aviv intelligence says Iran set to attack Israel in days

The Israeli intelligence community believes Iran has decided to attack Israel directly and may do so within days, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said on Sunday, citing two sources.

The attack would be in retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in late July, Ravid added. Israel has not claimed or denied responsibility for the killing.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Masou Pezeshkian warned a senior European official about Israel's war on Gaza while also indicating Tehran's willingness to restart negotiations over a 2015 nuclear agreement.


In a phone call with European Council President Charles Michel on Sunday, Pezeshkian described Israel as a significant threat to regional and global peace and security, according to the state-run IRNA.

"The double standards of the US and some Western countries have made the Zionist regime more insolent," Pezeshkian was cited as saying by IRNA.

The phone call comes at a time when the Iranian President presented his cabinet to parliament on Sunday for a vote of confidence, state media reported, proposing seasoned pragmatic diplomat Abbas Araghchi as foreign minister at a time of heightened regional tensions.

Cabinet reshuffle in Iran

President Masoud Pezeshkian is shaping his cabinet at a time of risk of escalation of the war in Gaza into a broader regional war. His proposed cabinet lineup requires lawmakers' approval and parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that parliamentary commissions will start reviewing his candidates on Monday.

Araghchi, 61, who was Iran's ambassador to several countries, including Japan, played a key role in negotiating Tehran's 2015 nuclear agreement with six world powers, which then-US President Donald Trump exited in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions on Iran.

The president's powers are limited in Iran by those of the Supreme Leader, who has the last say on major policies. Separately, Pezeshkian nominated Mohsen Paknezhad as oil minister, who served as deputy oil minister overseeing hydrocarbon resources from 2018 to 2021.

Pezeshkian has also nominated Farzaneh Sadeq as the road and transportation minister. If approved, she would become only the second woman cabinet minister in the Iran's history.