TEHRAN, Jul 21 - Iranian lawmakers have thrown their weight behind the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for impounding a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
TEHRAN, Jul 21 - Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has warned London against further provocation, as reports emerge that the British government is considering freezing Iranian assets and may take other measures as well in a standoff between the two countries over the mutual seizure of tankers.
TEHRAN, Jul 21 - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force lost two troops in an armed clash with a group of terrorists in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan.
TEHRAN, Jul 21 - US unilateral and protectionist view to international affairs has posed a real threat to the global peace and stability, the Iranian foreign minister said.
TEHRAN, Jul 21 -John Bolton, White House national security adviser and notorious Iraq-era hawk, is a man on a mission. Given broad latitude over policy by Donald Trump, he is widely held to be driving the US confrontation with Iran. And in his passionate bid to tame Tehran, Bolton cares little who gets hurt – even if collateral damage includes a close ally such as Britain.
TEHRAN, Jul 20 - Iran’s rial still trade relatively high against US dollar compared to months of low that followed US introduction of crippling economic sanctions against Tehran.
TEHRAN, Jul 20 - Amid heightening tensions in the Persian Gulf, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed Washington’s global presence as a cause of “insecurity and instability”.
TEHRAN, Jul 19 - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi mocked President Donald Trump’s claim that a US warship has shot down an Iranian drone, saying he is “worried that USS Boxer has shot down their own UAS by mistake!”
TEHRAN, Jul 19 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned against harsh consequences of any military operation by the US against the Islamic Republic and said any attack will be responded “massively”.
TEHRAN, Jul 19 - Iran’s minister of telecommunications says that the country is planning to equip mobile devices in the country with a special operating system that would prevent the United States government from banning Iran-made mobile applications.
TEHRAN, Jul 19 - Iran’s president says Tehran is determined to keep open all options for preserving the 2015 nuclear deal with world countries while ensuring it derives its interests under the agreement.
TEHRAN, Jul 19 - Iran has rejected US President Donald Trump’s claim that a US warship has shot down an Iranian Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in the Strait of Hormuz, saying it has not lost any drone either in that area or anywhere else.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 - Iran has condemned the West’s double standards on human rights, saying the issue is used by “a few states” as a political tool to exert pressure on the countries they disfavor.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 - The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned enemies against the possibility of a turn in the country’s military strategy from the current defensive strategy toward an offensive one.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 - Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) details its recent capturing of a foreign tanker smuggling one million liters of Iranian fuel near the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 - The Bahraini regime plans to host an international conference led by the US with a focus on what the tiny kingdom and its allies call “Iranian threats” to the security of navigation in the Persian Gulf, months after Washington hosted a similar belligerent forum against the Islamic Republic in Warsaw, Poland.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 - Russia has signaled its willingness to join an EU payments channel designed to circumvent US sanctions banning trade with Iran, but has called on Brussels to expand the new mechanism to cover oil exports.