Iran is using its sea power in the Gulf to show it will not be cowed by Washington's newly assertive Arab allies, prompting critics to accuse Tehran of destabilizing the region. Iranian ships fired shots at a Singapore-flagged tanker which it said damaged an Iranian oil platform, causing the vessel to flee, and seized a container ship in the Strait ...

Iranian State media are reporting that Iran has released a cargo ship and 34 crew, forced into the southern port of Bandar Abbas on April 28. State news agency IRNA, citing an informed source, says the Maersk Tigris operated by a Danish company, part-owned by US interests, and flagged by the Marshall Islands has been freedwith a statement from ...

Iran has reportedly released a Marshall Islands-flaggedcargo ship recently impounded in the Persian Gulf by Iranian forces. On April 28, Iranian forces boarded the Maersk Tigris ship carrying the Marshall Islands flag in the Strait of Hormuz. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] A cargo ship operated by the Maersk Line container shipping ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran says a Marshal Islands-flagged cargo vessel seized by Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz will be released within two days, after it pays a fine. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told reporters Wednesday says the April 28 seizure of MV Maersk Tigris followed a legal complaint by an Iranian private company....

Iran's media say a commercial ship that was seized in Persian Gulf waters last week over a legal dispute between a local company and the Danish shipping line Maersk will be sold. The announcement has been made by Hamid-Reza Jahanian, the managing director of Pars Tala'eyeh Oil Products Company which is involved in the legal row with Maersk. Jahanian ...

Tehran, April 5, The Iran Project - Following a legal dispute between two private companies, Iran seized a cargo ship in the Persian Gulf on April 28. According to the reports, on the order of a court in Tehran, a ship belonged to the Danish MV Maersk Tigris company has been intercepted by Iranian Revolutionary Guard patrol boats, due to a considerable ...

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(Reuters) - U.S. Navy warships have begun accompanying British-flagged commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz as a result of Iran's detention of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship last week, the Pentagon said on Monday. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said the U.S. Navy had accompanied one British ship through the strait,...

May 4 (Reuters) - Maersk Line said on Monday it has met again with the Ports & Maritime Organization (PMO) in Iran regarding the seizure of the vessel Maersk Tigris but the Danish shipping company has still not received any official documents from Iranian authorities. "We have yet to receive any written notifications (court ruling, arrest order ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said Persian Gulf is fully safe, recommending the US to escort its ships and vessels in the Gulf of Aden. Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Aden are completely secure due to continual presence of Iranian Army and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); therefore,...

(Reuters) - Denmark's Maersk said on Thursday it insists on the release of the crew of the Maersk Tigris vessel, being held by Iranian authorities, and said it now assumed its seizure was related to a 2005 court case over uncollected cargo from Dubai. The case had been rumbling since then, and Maersk had agreed to pay $163,000 following the latest ...