Iran has rejected the claims that Sanchi oil tanker has been hit by a US missile while heading towards North Korea, saying that such rumours are more like a Jules Verne story.
An energy expert has called the Sanchi oil tanker collision an ambiguous case, saying that further investigation will indicate whether the Chinese have done what they could to prevent the tragic incident and its loses.
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution, has offered his deep condolences over the deaths of 32 sailors aboard an Iranian oil tanker which caught fire and sank in Eastern China.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has expressed sympathy over the tragic deaths of 30 Iranian sailors who lost their lives after their oil tanker collided with a bulk freighter in East China last week.
The burning Iranian oil tanker Sanchi has fully sunk in Eastern China after it flared up again Sunday morning, and all the 29 missing crew members are confirmed dead, according to Iranian officials.
On the third day of the thirty-third International Fajr Music Festival, a band from China has given a joint performance with Iranian musicians and dedicated one of the songs to the Iranian sailors who are feared dead in a ship collision in Eastern China.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has called for mobilizing resources and adopting necessary measures to immediately determine the fate of crew members of an Iranian oil tanker that is still ablaze after it collided with a Chinese cargo ship in the East China Sea last week.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi have discussed ongoing efforts to find the Iranian sailors who went missing after a ship collision in Eastern China.
Chinese rescuers have recovered the bodies of two crew members on an Iranian oil tanker that has been burning since it collided with a freighter last week in the East China Sea.
Iran’s foreign ministry has issued a statement on the US administration’s extension of waivers of Iran nuclear sanctions and imposition of a series of new sanctions on certain Iranian companies and individuals.
An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale has once again jolted a district located on the border of Ilam and Kermanshah provinces in Western Iran.
Iranian maritime officials have slammed the Chinese for not doing enough to save the Iranian crew on board an oil tanker which caught fire after colliding with a cargo ship.
An Iranian oil tanker, which caught fire after colliding with a bulk freighter off China's east coast, is giving off poisonous gases, hindering rescue work there, the managing director of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said.
32 people including 30 Iranians and 2 Bangladeshi crew have gone missing after an Iranian oil tanker collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China's eastern coast.
Following the recent earthquake in Tehran, some real estate agencies in the Iranian capital are boasting of offering houses that are resistant to magnitude-9 quakes.
A magnitude-6 earthquake has once again struck an area near the Iran-Iraq border in the Iranian province of Kermanshah one month after another massive quake killed over 600 people at the same place.
Mawlawi Mohammad Mohammadi, the Friday Prayers leader of Kermanshah, has appreciated the services provided by Iranian army forces in the earthquake-struck regions of the province.
Michel Salgado, the former captain of Real Madrid football team, has donated one of his signed shirts to raise funds for the quake-hit Iranians in the western province of Kermanshah.