Tasnim The spokesperson for Irans administration said an Iranian airplane recently flew to Saudi Arabia to take back the employees of one of the countrys airlines from the city of Jeddah. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session on Wednesday, Ali Rabiee provided an explanation for an Iranian flight that has landed in Jeddah recently....

Press TV - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says Saudi Arabia has once again abused its right as the host of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)s secretariat in the city of Jeddah, barring an Iranian delegation from taking part in an emergency OIC meeting, which is aimed at rebuffing the US so-called peace plan for the Middle East. "After ...

Radio Farda - Irans Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on November 9 in Moscow that Iran will respond to the attack on one of its tankers off Saudi Arabias coast in October. Araqchi who was taking part in the Moscow Non-Proliferation Conference, said, we have had a lot of attacks and incidents. The latest was the attack was a month ago when ...

Press TV - An Iranian oil tanker that was recently hit by two missiles in a suspicious attack in waters off the Saudi coast in the Red Sea has entered Irans territorial waters. According to the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), the tanker, christened Sabiti, returned home on Monday and will dock in the southern Kharg Island in two days to ...

Sputnik - Tehran has sent documents related to the recent attack on Iran's oil tanker in the Red Sea to the UN Security Council amid continued strained tensions in the region, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday. "[Iran] has passed on the details surrounding the attack on its tanker to the UN and the UN Security Council," Mousavi ...

RT - Footage proves last weeks attack on an Iranian oil tanker was carried out by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, a member of Irans National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Wednesday. The evidence will be taken to the UN and the Security Council so that those countries behind this terrorist attack would pay for their action, Abolfazl ...

Press TV - Irans state-run operator of oil tankers has rejected media reports suggesting a ship that was attacked last week in the Red Sea and off the coast of Saudi Arabia keeps leaking while on its way back home. The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said on Tuesday that an oil leak from Iranian ship MT Sabiti that began following two rocket ...

MNA Iranian FM Mohamamd Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that the Friday attack on Iranian oil tanker, SABITI, was carried out by one or several governments. According to the obtained data, the attack was carried out by one or several governments, said Zarif, adding that Iran will refrain from making any accusations for now as the investigation is still ...

Sky News - New pictures have emerged showing damage to an Iranian tanker allegedly struck by rockets near the Saudi port city of Jeddah. Oil leaked into the Red Sea from the Sabiti vessel after the explosion on Friday, which Iranian media reported was likely caused by a missile attack. The images were released on Monday by the Iranian Oil Ministry,...

Press TV - Iranian maritime authorities deny Saudi Arabias claims that it wanted to provide help to a damaged Iranian oil tanker after it was attacked off the coast of Jeddah in the Red Sea, saying Saudi coast guard ignored the ships repeated requests for help. A statement from the Port and Maritime Organization of Iran (PMO) released on Sunday ...

SHANA -- The CEO of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said that SABITI, an NITC-owned oil tanker which was hit by two missiles on Friday morning, was en route home and would arrive in Iran within 9 or 10 days. Nasrollah Sardashti said the vessel would reach Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in 24 hours. The oil tanker is believed to have been stricken ...

AFP - Saudi Arabia said Saturday it was ready to help the Iranian tanker that was allegedly attacked off the kingdom's coast, but the ship turned off its tracking system. The National Iranian Tanker Company, which owns the Sabiti, said its hull was hit by two separate explosions on Friday off the Saudi port of Jeddah. But the state-owned company ...

IRNA Spokesman of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office expressed concern over the recent accident happened for the Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea. Reports of explosions on board a tanker in the Red Sea are troubling. We are working to establish the facts, the British spokesman told IRNA on the condition of anonymity. The Iranian oil tanker ...

MNA Iranian top security official Ali Shamkhani vowed response to destabilizing moves international waters, adding that Iran has found clues about the Fridays attack on one of its oil tankers in the Red Sea. Maritime piracy and acts of mischief in international waters that are carried out with the aim of undermining the security of merchant ships ...

Reuters - An Iranian government spokesman on Saturday called the apparent targeting of an Iranian oil tanker by missiles a cowardly attack and said Iran would respond after the facts had been studied. Iran is avoiding haste, carefully examining what has happened and probing facts. An appropriate response will be given to the designers of this cowardly ...

SHANA -- The CEO of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said no ship nor any authority had responded to distress messages of the blast-hit Iranian tanker in the Red Sea. According to Al-alam, Nasrollah Sardashti said that the tanker would change its route in the sea. SABITI, an Iranian oil tanker owned by NITC, was hit by two blasts at ...

SHANA -- National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) announced that SABITI Oil Tanker which was probably hit by missiles in the Red Sea was sailing towards the Persian Gulf. According to NITC, the blast-hit SABITI vessel is heading towards the Persian Gulf after being stabilized following the two blasts on Friday morning. The oil tanker belongs to ...

Press TV - Two separate explosions, possibly caused by missile attacks, in anIranian oil tanker operated by the National Iranian TankerCompany (NITC) have hitthe vesselnear the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The incident took place some 60 miles from Jeddah early Friday, according to informed sources. The explosions havereportedly hit the vessels ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi has given details on the return of an Iranian oil tanker that broke down off Jeddah port early in May by Saudi Arabia. Yesterday, after two and half months, Saudi authorities allowed the Iranian oil tanker Happiness, all its crew and two other ships to leave Jeddah to return to Iran. Today,...

Press TV - Iranian officials have warned Saudi Arabia against holding an oil tanker "hostage," describing it as an "illegal seizure" and a case of "ransom-seeking" aimed at gaining concessions from Iran. On May 2, Saudi Arabia announced its coast guard had rescued a distressed Iranian oil tanker, named Happiness I, with 26 on board off the Red Sea ...