Iran shot down U.S military surveillance drone early Thursday that Pentagon officials said was flying in airspace, one week after Iranian forces detonated magnetic mines above the waterline of two tankers in Gulf of Oman. ... Last week, Pentagon officials announced that Iranian forces had fired..…
The decision to avoid escalating the standoff with Iran in the Persian Gulf suggests that Washington is well aware that “Iran has many options available to raise the cost for the US and its friends in the region,” in the event of a military confrontation. . .....…
“It is the assessment of the U.S. government that Iran is responsible for today’s attacks in the Gulf of Oman” Credit: @SecPompeo . . Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says there’s no question that Iran initiated the recent attacks on those two oil tankers in the Gulf..…
U.S. military authorities have also charged that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was behind recent attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman near the vital international maritime waterway, the Strait of Hormuz. . ... MC-4Q Triton drone above the Persian Gulf..…
President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are saying that they have proof that Iran blew holes in two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz linking the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, and so, we’re being told in a report in the Jerusalem..…
The week, shepherded by neocon National Security Advisor John Bolton, with no conclusive evidence, that Iran was responsible for attacks on two commercial oil tankers near Gulf of Oman on June 13. This occurred just over year also known as Iran nuclear deal, putting U.S on path to..…
In fact, what are US warships, aircraft carriers, bomber planes and thousands of troops doing in the Gulf and throughout the Middle East, thousands of miles from US borders? The areas around Iran are littered with US military bases and naval units. ..…
Tehran Friday Sermon by Iranian Cleric Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbar America Sabotaged Oil Tankers in Gulf of Oman Our Enemies Want to Turn Us into Another Andalusia Saudi Arabia Should Buy Arms from Iran. ..…
Following the rift between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Gulf Cooperation Council is disarray with Qatar siding with Iran and Turkey against Saudi Arabia and UAE. ..…
The recent incidents involving alleged attacks on Norwegian and Japanese tankers in Gulf of Oman were attributed to Iran by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with so little regard for evidence that even American media was left gasping. ..…
A picture taken during a guided tour by the US Navy (NAVCENT) shows the damage in the hull of the Japanese oil tanker Kokuka Courageous off the port of the Gulf emirate of Fujairah on June 19, 2019 (Mumen Khatib/AFP/Getty Images) The tensions between Iran and the United States have been..…
He called on the community to pressure the US into ending such unlawful and destabilizing actions in Persian Gulf region... This is not the first provocative act by United States against Iran's integrity, reminding the UN that Iran has always protested the US move through Washington's..…
Donald Trump ordered ships into position and planes in the air to attack Iran–until he didn’t. With events in the Gulf moving as quickly as a whirling dervish, it’s hard to keep track of where this is headed. ..…
Then, on May 5, Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton referred to 'troubling and escalatory indications' from Iran and sent an aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf of Oman. ... Then, on June 13, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Iran for talks with Iranian..…
TEHRAN - It's hard to calculate Iran's response to potential US invasion, adding that assaulting Persian Gulf state could bring disaster to Middle East region... ..…