Persian Gulf

A senior member of the Iranian parliament has shared more details of a plan to collect tolls from foreign ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.

A senior Iranian general has revealed that Washington, through diplomatic channels, recently asked Tehran to allow it to conduct a small-scale operation in the Iranian airspace in order to save its face following the IRGC’s shoot-down of a US spy drone.

Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami says the enemies are gradually understanding the real power of the Islamic Republic.

Informed sources in Iran have dismissed the fabricated news of the seizure of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, IRIB News Agency reported.

Iran’s top aviation official says that major international airlines have been returning to skies south of the country after a brief hiatus caused by an Iran-US military escalation in the region.

It’s been four years that attractive tourist sites including a pipe hotel have been set up in a village close to Asalouyeh, the Iranian city where the world’s largest gas field South Pars is located.

The UN Security Council has called on Iran and the United States to sit for talks to ease the escalating tension following the recent developments in the Persian Gulf.

Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi hailed a recent move by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to shoot down an intruding US spy drone as a “crushing response” and said it can be repeated anytime.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Gabriela Cuevas Barron, the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), have discussed the key role the world’s parliaments can play in easing regional tensions.

US President Donald Trump has thanked Iran for refraining from downing a manned US plane alongside the spy drone it shot down on Thursday.

Iran’s Vice President for Legal Affairs says the US move to send a spy drone to the airspace of Iran is a violation of international law, and a legal action will be taken in this regard.

Iran’s Boxing Federation is threatening to boycott the upcoming schoolboys championships in Kuwait if the Asian Boxing Confederation would not use the one and real name of the ‘Persian Gulf’ in its official website.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the chargé d'affaires of the United Arab Emirates to express Tehran's strong protest at the incursion of a US spy drone into the Iranian airspace, which had taken off from a US base in the UAE.

A senior Iranian commander has warned Washington against taking any military action against the Islamic Republic, saying the US forces will go up in flames if they take such an action.

Iran has released the first photos of the debris of a US spy drone which was shot down in southern Iran after incursion into the Iranian airspace.

Iran has denied reports that US President Donald Trump has sent a message to Tehran through Oman overnight to say he is not after a war with Iran, and seeks dialogue.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi has strongly protested the US administration over an American spy drone's incursion into the Iranian airspace in an emergency phone call with the Swiss envoy in Tehran.

The commander of Iran’s Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned that the force’s downing of a US spy drone over the southern parts of the country is a “clear message” that Tehran, while not seeking war, is completely ready to fight one.

There are reports that the air defence of Iran's IRGC Aerospace Force has shot down a US RQ-4 drone close to the Iranian province of Hormozgan in Persian Gulf shores.

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council says there will not be any military confrontation between Iran and the United States.

Iran’s defence minister has dismissed as “undocumented” a video released by the US military which allegedly shows an Iranian boat removing what the US calls “a mine” from the two oil tankers recently hit by explosions in the Sea of Oman.

Chief-Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami has dismissed the anti-Iran accusations levelled by the US regarding the recent oil tanker attacks in the Sea of Oman, saying that Americans are accustomed to telling such lies.

Iran’s First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri has described the Islamic Republic as the country that has preserved the security of the region, saying that the recent oil tanker attacks were carried out when Iran was not present in the Persian Gulf.

Iran's top general has dismissed allegations that Tehran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman, saying the country would have bravely claimed responsibility if it had carried out the attacks.

Iran’s Parliament speaker says the “suspicious” attacks on two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman could be staged by the US as the country has a history of carrying out such false flag operations.