MNA Has the current American government become so sanguine as to assume the American people believe dubious charges that Iran attacked ships near the Straits of Hormuz? Well, maybe it has, and the American people have become or remain that blind or ignorant to believe what the Trump gang tells them. But at least many Americans are pushing back ...

The National Interest | Seth J. Frantzman: Irans military warned it could stop oil shipping through the Straits of Hormuz on Monday, the same day it also warned that it would increase its stockpile of enriched uranium beyond the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran deal, limits. Coming in the wake of the June 13 attack ...

The Guardian | Simon Tisdall: In Washington, at times of stress, international crises play out in black and white. As in a flickering newsreel from a former age, complex events are reduced to symbolic emblems of right and wrong. Grainy video images of evil-doers, George W Bushs favoured term, purport to show faceless Iranians acting suspiciously around ...

Sputnik - The United States continues to amass military forces in the vicinity of Iran, following tanker incidents near the Strait of Hormuz and the alleged threat that Iran poses to US forces operating in the Middle East. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, one of the architects of Washingtons hard-line policy on Iran, has relayed a message to Tehran ...

MNA Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami rejected US unfounded accusations against Iran on recent tanker attacks, saying that Iran considers the security of waterways as its own security. Talking to reporters after Wednesdays cabinet meeting in Tehran, Hatami strongly rejected US accusations, highlighting that all efforts by the ...

Tasnim The Russian foreign minister warned that the United States has yet to prove its claims that Iran was responsible for recent oil tanker attacks in the Sea of Oman, describing Washingtons alleged evidence as very vague. Asked by the Tass News Agency if Moscow had any insight into what caused the explosions that damaged two oil tankers in the ...

Press TV - United Arab Emirates (UAE)s minister of foreign affairs says his country does not have enough evidence to blame any country for last month's attacks on four oil tankers off the Emirati port city of Fujairah. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan made the remarks in a joint press conference with his Bulgarian counterpart Ekaterina Zaharieva ...