Strait of Hormuz
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Iran launches missiles at US targets in Jordan after US strikes
Washington: Iran has launched missiles toward US targets in Jordan, Iranian state-run media said, following the latest American strikes. It’s the latest tit-for-tat retaliation after the US military said it destroyed five…
- Middle East
An Iranian port city feels the pain of US’ economic measures
Tehran: In the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz, a waterfront once busy with boats, trucks and workers has fallen quiet. It’s a front line of the…
- Middle East
Iran warns South Korea against involvement in Strait of Hormuz
Iran warned South Korea on Monday, September 7, that any military involvement in the Strait of Hormuz would be regarded as support for US aggression and could have “serious consequences”, as Seoul…
- Middle East
Iran plans to announce ‘exclusion zone’ near Strait of Hormuz
Cairo: The new head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Sunday, September 6, said Tehran plans to announce an “exclusion zone” outside the Strait of Hormuz aimed at vessels it believes…
- Middle East
Iran warns US of faster, more painful response to new attacks
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf warned the United States on Sunday, September 6, that any further attack on Iran’s interests would bring a faster, heavier and more painful response, saying the rules…
- Middle East
Iran threatens wider strikes on US ships as tanker tensions rise
As the war between the United States and Iran reached its 190th day, fresh military threats and attacks on shipping heightened fears of wider escalation on Sunday, September 6, 81 days after…
- Middle East
Trump calls US-Iran military conflict ‘small potatoes’, not a war
Washington: President Donald Trump has described the US confrontation with Iran as an intermittent “military conflict” rather than a full-scale war, claiming that Washington controls the Strait of Hormuz and has prevented…
- Middle East
Trump says Iran war will end soon, claims US has already ‘won’
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said the war with Iran would end soon, asserting that American forces had crippled Tehran’s military capabilities, were monitoring its nuclear sites and controlled the Strait…
- Middle East
Netanyahu says toppling Iran’s government is ‘within reach’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, September 3, said Iran’s government was weaker than ever and fighting for its survival, expressing confidence that toppling it was “within reach” as the United…
- Middle East
Iran tells Trump his fate in Hormuz is to ‘drown in fury’
Tehran: Iran has hit back at US President Donald Trump over his proposal to rename the Strait of Hormuz the ‘Trump Strait’, dismissing his claims of US control over the strategic waterway.…
- Middle East
US escorts 18 million barrels of oil through Hormuz in one day
h The US military escorted 40 commercial vessels carrying around 18 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, September 1, marking its largest single-day operation of the war,…
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Trump says US ready for more Iran strikes
Washington: The US military is prepared to launch more strikes on Iran “any time we want,” President Donald Trump has said. “It was a very heavy attack last night, and we’re prepared…
- Middle East
Trump proposes renaming Strait of Hormuz ‘Trump Strait’
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, September 2, suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz the “Trump Strait”, claiming the United States now controls the strategic waterway as fighting with Iran continued to…
- Middle East
Two Filipino sailors killed in Saudi tanker incident in Hormuz
Two Filipino sailors were killed after a Saudi tanker was involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, shipping company Bahri said on Wednesday, September 2. Bahri said its…
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‘They turned a wedding into a funeral’: Iran after US strike
Iran’s embassy in India said a US strike had “turned a wedding into a funeral”, after Iranian authorities reported that an attack near the southern city of Sirik killed five people and…
