Iran-UK Relations

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his administration is always ready for fair and honest negotiations, but not if sitting for talks means “surrender”.

The UK government has sent a mediator to Tehran in a bid to ask the Iranian officials to release a British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf, a senior official has revealed.

An Iranian international lawyer and foreign policy analyst has called on Boris Johnson, the incoming prime minister of the UK, to express his view on Iran’s right to reciprocate the Royal Navy’s seizure of an Iranian supertanker in the name of a domestic law.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has offered congratulations to Boris Johnson, the new prime minister of the United Kingdom, assuring him that the Islamic Republic is not after confrontation with London, but will protect its territorial waters.

Senior Political Analyst Kayhan Barzegar has weighed in on the standoff between Iran and the UK over the seizure of an oil tanker by either side.

An Iranian daily newspaper has described the capture of a British oil tanker at the Strait of Hormuz as legal tit-for-tat retaliation for the unlawful seizure of an Iranian supertanker by the UK in the international waters near Gibraltar.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has warned London against further provocation, as reports emerge that the British government is considering freezing Iranian assets and may take other measures as well in a standoff between the two countries over the mutual seizure of tankers.

Iran’s IRGC has released the video of the moment its forces have seized the British oil tanker Stena Impero in the Persian Gulf.

The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has unveiled more details of capturing a British oil tanker at the Strait of Hormuz, saying even a Royal Navy’s frigate escorting the tanker failed to prevent the Iranian commandos from carrying the mission.

British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has discussed the issue of the seized oil tanker belonging to the UK with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif who is in Venezuelan capital Caracas.

Iran says the British-flagged Stena Impero oil tanker seized by IRGC forces in the Strait of Hormuz had collided with an Iranian fishing vessel but did not respond to the calls and warnings and had switched off its GPS locators.

Informed military sources in the Persian Gulf have rejected media reports that the IRGC has seized a second Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says its naval forces have seized a British-flagged Swedish-owned oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.

An Iranian official says the reports of an agreement between Iran and the BBC on the work of a permanent correspondent in the country are not true.

The three European powers – France, Britain, and Germany – have reaffirmed their commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran on the fourth anniversary of clinching the deal.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has made it clear for his UK counterpart that Tehran will keep on exporting oil under any conditions, urging London to secure the release of Iran’s oil tanker as soon as possible.

UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the release of an Iranian supertanker that his country has captured near Gibraltar would be conditional on a guarantee that the vessel will not go to Syria.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned the United Kingdom about the consequences of its recent move to seize an Iranian supertanker in Gibraltar.

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri has warned that the Islamic Republic will respond to the UK's seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar in due time.

A former prime minister of Sweden has questioned the legality of seizure of an Iranian oil tanker by the UK, stressing that the non-EU states are not subject to the European sanctions.

Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami has lashed out at the United Kingdom for illegally seizing an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar, saying the country will not tolerate London’s “maritime piracy”.

Reports say Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former Shah of Iran, will soon receive a paycheck to appear in a show that will be produced by Saudi-backed satellite TV channel “Iran International”.

Seizing the oil tanker Grace 1 is a new event that has heated up the tension between Iran and the United States, but it can also be related to the current disagreements between United Kingdom and the European Union.

Iran says the supertanker carrying its oil sailing in international waters in the Strait of Gibraltar was not bound for Syria, and the UK was not allowed to seize it.

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.