US President-elect Donald Trump and his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have discussed “Iranian threats” in three phone calls since the US election results were announced last Wednesday. “We see with our own eyes the Iranian threat in all its components, and the danger it poses,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

This came at a time when the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, announced that he would head to Tehran on Wednesday to hold talks that he described as “very important” with Iranian officials.

Grossi's visit to Tehran comes at a sensitive time and amid uncertainty about the policy Trump will pursue with the faltering talks held by the Joe Biden administration aimed at returning to the nuclear deal, which Trump withdrew from in 2018.

In parallel, Iranian reports stated that Tehran conducted a test launch of an intercontinental missile on Friday evening, from the Shahroud Space Center, which was subjected to an Israeli strike last month.