A court in Bahrain imposed $1 million fines each on three executives of Future Bank, a financial institution accused of helping Iran evade sanctions and launder money. Each executive was also sentenced to five years in prison. In addition, the court fined the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks involved in the evasion scheme $1 million each. According to the court, Future Bank violated Bahraini laws and regulations, including by transferring $2.7 billion through an informal alternative to the SWIFT system. Bahraini officials allege that Future Bank concealed transactions totaling $7 billion dollars between 2004 and 2015, involving hundreds of bank accounts and phantom loans to front companies for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Bahrain seized Future Bank's assets in 2016.

Alexander Stuchilin, the deputy chief executive of the Russian research center Rezonans, claimed that Iran succeeded in using the Russian-manufactured Rezonans-NE radar to track U.S. F-35 fighter aircraft flying near Iran's borders in early 2020. According to Stuchilin, Iran had been employing the system for several years.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo formally notified the United Nations that the United States is seeking the return of all international sanctions on Iran, or "snapback," under the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). According to the JCPOA, any participant to the agreement can notify the U.N. Security Council that Iran is no longer complying with the agreement. If the U.N. Security Council fails to pass a resolution extending sanctions relief within 30 days of such a notification, all previous U.N. sanctions on Iran automatically come back into effect. France, Germany, Iran, Russia, and the United Kingdom argue that the United States lacks the standing to invoke the JCPOA because the United States withdrew from the agreement in 2018. The United States argues that it has the "explicit right" to evoke snapback since the JCPOA was enshrined by U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231. The U.S. move to invoke the full "snapback" of sanctions follows its failure to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran.

Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami claimed to unveil two new missiles on National Defense Industry Day, including a ballistic missile with a range of 1,400 km and a cruise missile with a range of 1,000 km. Iran named the missiles after the Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, both of whom died in a U.S. airstrike in January. Iran also unveiled a fourth-generation light turbo-fan engine for drones and inaugurated a production line for the Owj engine for the twin-seat Kowsar fighter jet.