The rescue operation was carried out after authorities in Department General of Ports and Maritime Administration of the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan reported an incident to the Marine Control Tower.
The foreign ship was a Sri Lankan-flagged oil tanker that was sinking 30 miles from Jask, in Sothern Iran.
Five people needed treatment which they received from Jask emergency ward. They are now well.
The no hunting zone in northwestern Iran is named Darband Mashkul in the southern part of Ardabil province and on the border of Givi city.
The area has been protected due to the presence of various animal species.
The film of the leopard was apparently shot by an environmental guard.
Environmental protection authorities say the leopard is among endangered species whose protection is now more important than ever.
Iranian wildlife protection authorities believe that 500 to 800 Persian leopards are scattered in Iran including in the provinces of Mazandaran, Gilan, Golestan, Razavi Khorasan, North Khorasan, Semnan, Yazd, Sistan-Baluchestan and Fars.
Amirabdollahian praised Iran’s defense capabilities and deterrence power in its recent retaliatory operation against the illegal entity.
In a multi-pronged attack, dubbed Operation True Promise, Iran launched late on Saturday hundreds of drones and missiles at the occupied territories in response to the regime’s aggression on the Iranian diplomatic facilities in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1.
The Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s embassy compound in Damascus had killed two generals of the Quds Force of IRGC, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, as well as five of their accompanying officers.
Amirabdollahian expressed the Foreign Ministry’s gratitude for the “precise and effective planning, designing and implementing” of the victorious Operation True Promise, which came in response to the “evil actions of the Zionist regime in the region,” and the martyrdom of a group of IRGC commanders in the consulate building of the country’s embassy in Damascus.
“Undoubtedly, this valuable and complex military action, which was carried out based on the [universally] acknowledged principle of legitimate defense and in accordance with generally recognized international laws and regulations, redefined the balance of power in the West Asian region and once again demonstrated the deterrence power of the country’s Armed Forces to the sworn enemies of Islam and Iran,” the top Iranian diplomat added.
Stressing that the retaliatory operation created more capacities for the Iranian diplomatic apparatus in the field of international and regional relations, Amirabdollahian stated the reprisal led to an increase in the sense of patriotism among Iranians and expedited the Zionist regime’s collapse.
Iran has warned Israel against taking any retaliatory actions and urged the United States to try not to involve itself in the conflict, signaling that it viewed the matter as “concluded”.
Washington and its allies have blocked some $300 billion of Russian central bank assets due to sanctions which were adopted in response to the launch of Moscow’s military operation against Kiev in February 2022. Around $200 billion of that money is held in the EU. The US has been insisting for months that international law allows for the confiscation of the funds, but Germany and France have expressed concerns that such a move could set a dangerous precedent.
The fate of the frozen Russian assets will be discussed during the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting, which is set to kick off in Capri, Italy on Wednesday, an unnamed Treasury official told the agency on Tuesday.
The Western nations will be looking into all available ways of using the money to assist Kiev, the source said, while declining to specify which option was the most likely one.
However, the official clarified that even if the US and its allies eventually decide to seize the Russian funds altogether, Ukraine would not have the capacity to absorb the full amount at once.
The official also warned that no major breakthrough should be expected this week, as the final decision on the issue is to be made by the leaders of the G7 countries.
Other informed sources have told Reuters that one of “the most promising proposals” under consideration was for the US and its allies to seize the interest due on the frozen Russian assets for use as collateral for loans or bonds issued to help Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Finance Minister Sergey Marchenko told Reuters that he is going to meet with his German counterpart Christian Lindner and other G7 officials this week to talk about the Russian assets. Unity is required within the G7 on whatever approach the group chooses, he stressed.
Moscow has repeatedly said that the seizure of its funds would amount to theft and would further undermine global trust in the Western financial system. Russia also warned that if necessary, it might respond in kind to such a move by the US and its allies.
In Al Ain, an Emirati oasis city on the border with Oman, 254mm of rain was recorded in less than 24 hours, according to the national meteorology centre. That marked the highest level since records began in 1949.
An Emirati man in his 70s died after his vehicle was caught in the flooding in Ras Al-Khaimah, one of the country’s seven emirates, according to police.
The storms also hit Bahrain and parts of Qatar, days after flooding devastated neighbouring Oman.
Across Sunday and Monday, 18 people died in Oman as a result of heavy rain. Among the dead were at least nine schoolchildren, according to Oman News Agency.
Videos on social media showed collapsed roads and homes in the UAE, as well as vehicles completely submerged. One clip appeared to show planes taxiing across a flooded runway at Dubai International Airport.
The airport, the world’s busiest for international traffic, saw significant disruption after passengers and crews struggled to arrive and depart on time. Several flights were cancelled or delayed on Tuesday.
“We are working hard to recover operations as quickly as possible in very challenging conditions,” the airport wrote on X.
Though the heavy rains eased, delays continued into Wednesday, as the Emirates airline suspended check-ins for departing passengers until midnight.
An Asian Champions League match between the UAE’s Al Ain and Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal was postponed due to the weather.
Skies were clearer on Wednesday morning, though Emirati authorities ordered all government workers and schools to continue working remotely for a second day.
“Both men and women reported threats and incidents that may amount to sexual violence and harassment by the [Israeli army] while in detention. Male victims reported beatings to their genitals while one detainee reported being made to sit on an electrical probe,” the report said.
The report added that female detainees had also described “psychological abuse”.
The UNRWA announced that since early April, Israeli soldiers have released 1,506 detainees from Gaza through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing point.
Those released included 43 children and 84 women. Among them were 16 family members of UNRWA staff and “326 Gazan labourers working in Israel”.
Following the launch of Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza in October, reports emerged of Palestinians being detained.
During their detention, many reported “ill-treatment”.
“This included being subjected to beatings while made to lie on a thin mattress on top of rubble for hours without food, water or access to a toilet, with their legs and hands bound with plastic ties,” the report found.
“Several detainees reported being forced into cages and attacked by dogs. Some released detainees, including a child, had dog-bite wounds on their body,” it said.
The report added that some detainees were threatened with extended detention times, injury or the deaths of family members if they did not give authorities the information they wanted.
Gaza’s Government Media Office has called on rights groups and the international community to “take action” after hearing “horrifying” testimonies from a large number of freed Palestinians who were recently detained by Israeli troops.
The testimonies include accounts from children younger than 12 years old and describe “extreme torture, mistreatment and cases of medical neglect”, the office said.
“These testimonies from the affected individuals prove yet again the monstrosity of this criminal army,” the office noted.
“It is yet another example of how it [the Israeli military] violates international and humanitarian laws as it continues committing war crimes and genocide against our people in Gaza,” it added.
Iran carried out the attack two weeks after a deadly April 1 raid on its embassy’s consular building in Damascus, which Tehran blames on Israel.
Speaking after an emergency online meeting of EU foreign ministers, Borrell said the bloc would look to toughen measures against Iran’s supplies of weaponry, including drones, to Russia and proxy groups around the Middle East.
“Some member states propose the adoption of expanded restrictive measures against Iran,” Borrell continued.
The EU’s top diplomat added he was requesting his service “start the necessary work related to the sanctions”.
“Engagement with, and supervision by the IAEA are ongoing, and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi is to travel to Iran in the future,” said Mohammad Eslami.
“Reports announced by Grossi, the director of the IAEA’s Board of Governors or the UN Security Council have two parts: one is based on the JCPOA (Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal) and the other related to the Safeguards Agreement,” he explained.
“Relations are ongoing as far as the Safeguards Agreement is concerned and the IAEA’s cameras have been installed and they keep constant supervision and their information about our performance is always up to date,” he added.
“At the moment, there are 120 approved inspectors who are either stationed in Iran or keep travelling to and from the country,” said Eslami.
“If the Israeli regime conducts the slightest act of aggression against our soil, it will receive a severe and hard response,” said Ebrahim Raisi in a ceremony in Tehran marking National Army Day in the country.
He said the reprisal operation launched by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) against Israeli military targets in the occupied territories was carried out on a limited scale just to punish the Tel Aviv regime.
“If it were a full-blown attack, nothing would have been left of the Israeli regime,” he explained.
The president added Iran’s operation was a ‘prudent and calculated’ move that ‘shattered the Israeli regime’s hollow power.’
He then praised the Iranian Armed Forces for their military prowess and efforts to safeguard the country’s frontiers and security.
President Raisi said the Iranian military has always stood by the people and brought honor upon the nation.
“Six months into the war, 10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned,” it said.
The report noted more than 1 million Palestinian women and girls in the Strip are facing “catastrophic hunger”, with almost no access to food, safe drinking water, functioning toilets or running water, creating life-threatening risks.
“One child is injured or dies every 10 minutes,” it added.
“Women who have survived the bombing are suffering daily starvation, sickness, and constant fear. The war in Gaza is no doubt a war on women, who are paying a heavy price for a war not of their making”, stated Susanne Mikhail, Regional Director of UN Women in the Arab States at a media briefing in Geneva.
A UNICEF official has also said children in Gaza have become the faces of the continuing war as their stories paint a “harrowing picture” of the human consequences of the conflict,
“Children are wearing a tremendous share of the scars of this war,” UNICEF communications specialist Tess Ingram – who left Gaza on Monday after spending two weeks there – told a UN press briefing in Geneva.
More than 12,000 children were injured in Gaza since October 7, 2023, she added, and this is “almost certainly an underestimate”.
“With at least 70 children injured every day, we need the number of medical evacuations to increase so children can access the care they urgently need. And with one child killed or injured every 10 minutes, above anything else we need a ceasefire.”
A lasting truce “is the only way to stop the killing and maiming of children”.
At least 46 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health there reported on Tuesday, raising the total death toll to 33,843 people.
The ministry said that 76,575 Palestinians have been wounded.
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