Persian Gulf

Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to visit the Kingdom.

The US Navy has deployed more than 3,000 sailors and Marine forces to West Asia under the pretext of protecting ships and vessels crossing the main waterways.

The United States is weighing an unprecedented step to deploy troops to commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf after Iran’s seizure of tankers in the area. Tehran says Iranian naval forces have so far seized 35 ships for violating maritime laws in the waters off the Persian Gulf.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has begun drills simulating the defense of an island in the Persian Gulf that the United Arab Emirates lays claims to.

The United States is sending marines and additional warships to Middle Eastern waters amid rising tensions with Iran, the military announced Thursday.

Iran’s national television shows footage of Navy aircraft conducting surveillance patrols over extra-regional warships sailing in the Persian Gulf.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has shrugged off the US’ decision to dispatch a new fleet of fighter jets and a navy destroyer to the Persian Gulf. He stressed that Iran is projecting power in the region and beyond without feeling any threat.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani says that Tehran has formally protested to Moscow about its recent joint statement with the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) regarding three Iranian islands.

The Iranian Parliament Speaker cautions Russia not to promote a Western agenda to destabilize the Persian Gulf region, Moscow joined voice with the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council to question Iranian sovereignty over three islands in the region.

Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Army, says the country is very sensitive to claims made about its three islands in the Persian Gulf, to which the United Arab Emirates lays claims.

An Iranian daily lashes out the government for what it describes as failure to show a befitting reaction to Russia’s “back-stabbing,” after Moscow supported a territorial claim by the United Arab Emirates to the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.

An Iranian lawmaker says Russia made a mistake in signing a statement of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council that questioned Iran’s sovereignty on the three islands of the Lesser Tunb, the Greater Tunb and Abu Mousa in the Persian Gulf.

A commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the IRGC’s naval forces have seized a foreign oil tanker carrying one million liters of smuggled fuel in the Persian Gulf.

Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization says a Bahamian-flagged oil tanker collided with an Iranian vessel off the country’s southern coast and fled into Oman’s territorial waters as Iranian officials sought to seize the tanker for the wrongdoing.

Saudi Arabia has announced billions of dollars in investment deals between Beijing and the Arab world on the first day of the China-Arab business conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

China announced it will work for the establishment of security and stability in the region and that it favors plans for a regional maritime alliance.

The Iranian Navy chief says the Islamic Republic will soon establish a maritime coalition with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other states to help strengthen peace and stability in the neighborhood.

The United Arab Emirates pulled out from a US-led Middle East maritime security coalition two months ago after evaluating its security relationships, the Persian Gulf state announced on Wednesday.

The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Navy says Iranian naval forces have so far seized 35 ships for violations of maritime law in the waters of the country’s southern coasts.

Iran dismisses “baseless” claims by the US that its vessel seizures endanger maritime security in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, saying the recent confiscations were aimed at confronting violations of maritime law.

Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy, says the force is in full command of the Persian Gulf area.

A top Iranian general has called for closer military ties among regional countries aimed at establishing security in the Strait of Hormuz, the Sea of Oman and the northwest of the Indian Ocean.

Iran’s Navy has seized a foreign ship in the Persian Gulf following a collision that left two Iranians missing.

Admiral Shahram Irani, the commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, says Iranian naval forces detected and warned off the USS Florida submarine as it was attempting to cross the Hurmuz Strait in the Persian Gulf in stealth mode.

An Iranian cargo ship goes to the rescue of 11 tourists aboard a vessel lacking safety that was sailing the waters off the country’s southern coast in the Persian Gulf region.