U.S. intelligence has warned that Iran has significantly escalated efforts to assassinate American diplomats and government officials overseas, with some plots reaching advanced stages, according to a memo obtained by Axios.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. may carry out another military operation against Iran just as the Iran war nears its eight-month mark and rising fuel prices weigh on the U.S. midterm elections.
Iran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again, Reuters reported, citing Iranian security officials.
Istanbul will host meetings of top diplomats of the R4 mechanism (Türkiye, Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia) and the European E3 mechanism (UK, Germany, and France), including in an unprecedented combined format, on October 23.
The United States must honor its commitments enshrined in the agreement previously reached with Iran. This would enable Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping and help continue bilateral negotiations, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
Oil prices climbed on Tuesday as investors continued to monitor simmering tensions in the Middle East and U.S. front-month futures contracts neared expiry.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States could leave Iran now, claiming that the U.S. had achieved its objective. He claimed that Iran's leadership is gone and Iran will never have a nuclear weapon
Undersea data transmission cables running through the Strait of Hormuz could become Iran’s next targets, a representative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned.
Pakistan is providing Saudi Arabia with “whatever support is needed” to defend the kingdom amid attacks by Yemen's Houthi group, Pakistani military spokesman Sharif Chaudhry said.
Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement Ansar Allah has carried out a series of strikes on Saudi Arabia over the past 48 hours, targeting facilities belonging to oil and gas company Saudi Aramco, airports and military bases, the rebels’ military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed.
Iran has always sought friendly relations with Arab countries and is ready to offer to sign security agreements with them, spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Mohebi said.
Qatar’s deputy prime minister Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has warned that global energy shockwaves from the U.S.-Israel war on Iran have yet to reach their peak, raising concerns about further disruption to supplies, international trade and economic growth.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned against the U.S. renewing attacks, saying that Tehran has “unfinished jobs” too. …
A tanker has struck a mine in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz, causing an explosion and a fire in the engine room, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said.
The situation in the Middle East is on the brink of a large-scale war, although the Islamabad memorandum between the U.S. and Iran has everything to bring the situation in the Strait of Hormuz back to the diplomatic track, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the 9th round of the Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council Strategic Dialogue.
Israel must complete its important "tasks on all fronts" within the next two years, while Donald Trump is still US president, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a campaign address.
Twenty-two vessels were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz in the first 13 days of October.
The Strait of Hormuz will be open to shipping once U.S. forces withdraw from the Persian Gulf region, Iranian army spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akrami-Nia said.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said that Iraq had lost about $60 billion during the recent war between the United States and Iran.
Iran and the United States should agree on an effective mechanism to ensure fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the coming weeks, or parts of Asia and Africa could face a food crisis, executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services Jorge Moreira da Silva told Reuters.
