Sri Lanka has offloaded crew of an Iranian navy vessel and assumed countrol of it, the South Asian nation’s president said Thursday, a day after a deadly US submarine attack on another ship. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said in a televised address that his country’s navy had offloaded 208 sailors from the IRIS Bushehr, which […]
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At least 87 dead after US sinks Iranian warship
A US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 87 sailors and leaving dozens missing, officials said. The sinking came as the war sparked by a joint US-Israel attack on Iran continued to spread across the Middle East. “An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that […]
Anas Sarwar condemns father for praising ‘brutal’ Iranian Ayatollah
The leader of Scottish Labour has condemned his father for praising Iran’s “brutal” Ayatollah after he was killed in US-Israeli air strikes. Anas Sarwar said Mohammad Sarwar was “wrong” to post a tribute to Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who has killed thousands of civilians in the country. His father, a former Glasgow Labour MP […]
Trump’s Iranian missile claim unsupported by US intel, say sources
US President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran will soon have a missile that can hit the United States is not backed by US intelligence reports, and appears to be exaggerated, according to three sources familiar with the reports, casting doubt on part of his case for a possible attack on the Islamic Republic. In his […]
Aleem Khan meets Russian, Iranian ministers to boost connectivity
Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan on Friday held separate high-level meetings with the transport ministers of Russia and Iran, focusing on enhancing transport, logistics, and bilateral connectivity among Pakistan, Iran, and Russia. The meetings took place on the sidelines of the 2nd OIC Transport Ministers’ Conference in Istanbul, where the State Secretary and […]
Tehran denies US claims of shooting down Iranian drone
WASHINGTON: Iran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi denied on Friday having lost any drone recently and hinted that the US could have downed their own “by mistake” on his Twitter account. “We have not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else. I am worried that USS Boxer has shot down their own […]
British oil tanker anchors off Saudi Arabian coast amid fears of Iranian retaliation
A British oil tanker has halted its journey through the Strait of Hormuz for fear of being seized by Iran in response to the capture of a ship by UK forces last week. The ship British Heritage, run by oil company BP, has dropped anchor off the coast of Saudi Arabia inside the Arabian Gulf, […]
Iran rejects Arab summit accusations
Saudi Arabia’s king told an emergency Arab summit that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian “escalations” in the region following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as American officials said a US military deployment had deterred Tehran. “Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi… rejected the baseless accusations by the heads of certain Arab countries … and […]
Iran sets free 107 Pakistani nationals
The Iranian authorities on Sunday handed over 107 illegal Pakistani immigrants to Levies force at the Taftan border. According to the Levies authorities, the Pakistani nationals were arrested by Iranian authorities from various places as they were illegally trying to go to Europe via Iran. Following necessary process, a case was registered against them and […]
Tighter US sanctions on Iranian oil will cost Asia but supply will flow
Asian buyers of Iranian crude are well placed to overcome the end of US sanctions waivers as they have demonstrated they can live without it and as global producers have the capacity to make up a shortfall, according to analysts and trade data. The United States on Monday demanded buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases […]