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Dubai — Iran has reversed plans to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and says it will keep the vital shipping lane closed as long as the United States maintains a blockade of Iranian ports. Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard naval...
A Reuters image on March 11, 2026, showed cargo ships clustered near the Strait of Hormuz as tensions in the region continue to rise. In Dubai, the head of Iran’s joint military command warned Tehran could stop Gulf...
A short video circulating on social platforms claims to show Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, making a public appearance inside a high-tech military command center. The clip, shared widely on sites such as X...
Isfahan, Iran — Mohsen Farkhani, an assistant professor at Isfahan University, said Iran is consolidating its battlefield targets and conditions and currently sees no option to enter negotiations. Farkhani told ANI...
Isfahan, Iran, April 6 (ANI) — Mohsen Farkhani, an assistant professor at Isfahan University, said US President Donald Trump’s crude language is unsurprising and should not distract from what he described as far more...
WHO Director‑General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned a strike that struck roughly 100 metres from Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Lebanon’s largest public medical facility. The strike killed four people, injured...
Tehran, April 6 — As tensions in the Gulf and wider West Asia intensify, Iran's naval command announced that the Strait of Hormuz has been irreversibly altered and will not return to its previous status, particularly...
Iran executed two men identified as Mohammadamin Biglari and Shahin Vahedparast after they were convicted of attempting to storm a military facility and seize weapons during January unrest, the judiciary’s Mizan news...
The Rev. Maroun Ghafari spent Holy Week far from the village where he has long led Easter services. For years he preached in Alma al-Shaab, a mostly Christian village in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. This...
Geneva, April 5 — World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Sunday that recent incidents near Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant raise the risk of a nuclear accident with long-lasting...
About 2,000 vessels carrying more than 20,000 seafarers are stuck in the Persian Gulf, the International Maritime Organization told the Wall Street Journal, leaving many crews aboard for over a month. Fewer than 200...
Tehran, April 1 (ANI) — Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament's national security commission, said Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz "will certainly be opened; but not for you," adding that passage would be...
