Iran has released seven more crew members of the Portuguese-flagged ship MSC Aries, which was seized by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in mid-April.

Iran and Oman have jointly held a daylong maritime rescue and relief exercise in the northern Indian Ocean and the Strait of Hormuz.

A domestic company in Iran has managed to manufacture technologically sophisticated valves needed in a mega oil project in the country. The official IRNA news agency said in a Wednesday report that the home-made valves will be used in the Goureh-Jask project, a 1,100 oil transfer pipeline that carries oil from production facilities in southwest ...

Iran has awarded two refinery construction contracts worth $17.8 billion to domestic consortia as it seeks to increase its crude oil refining capacity by 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) within the next five years. The official IRNA news agency said in a report that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi personally oversaw the signing of the contracts between ...

Irans Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani slams the illegitimate presence of foreign powers in the strategic Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, urging collective cooperation among regional countries to ensure stability and security. In a video call with Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi on Thursday, Ashtiani said Irans ...

Saying that sustainable security in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz is IRGC's red line, the Commander of the IRGC Navy Force added that the country will not tolerate any foreign interventions in this regard. "We have always reiterated that the security of the Persian Gulf is the responsibility of the regionalcountries," said Rear Admiral ...

Iran has formally inaugurated its new crude oil export terminal on the Sea of Oman, a project hailed by President Hassan Rouhani as a historic achievement which could prove vital in the countrys energy future. The Goureh-Jask Crude Oil Transfer Project was inaugurated on Thursday during a video conference session attended by Rouhani and senior Oil ...

Commander of Iranian Army's first zone Rear-Admiral Jaafar Tazakkor says that sharing maritime information and knowledge carries a message that security and peace in the southern strategic Iranian region, Strait of Hormuz, and the Indian Ocean. Rear-Admiral Tazakkor made the remarks in a meeting held in south of Iran on Monday with Khan Mahmood ...

Iran's news agencies on Monday announced that a South Korean-flagged chemical tanker heading for the emirate of Fujairah was detained by IRGC Navy in the Strait of Hormuz and moved to an Iranian port. Informed sources told Tasnim News Agency that the Korean-flagged tanker has been seized due to creating environmental and chemical pollution in the ...

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has opened a new naval base at Sirik, a coastal Iranian town east of the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. The new base, named after Martyr Rahbari, was launched in a Wednesday ceremony attended by IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami. The base, whose construction started six ...

AFP - The Iranian navy began a three-day exercise in the Sea of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, deploying an array of warships, drones, and missiles. One of the exercise's objectives is to devise "tactical offensive and defensive strategies for safeguarding the country's territorial waters and shipping lanes,...

Tasnim - Amid heightened tensions with the US, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on Tuesday kicked off large-scale military drills in the Persian Gulf off the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The military exercise, code-named Payambar e Azam 14, is the largest of its kind in the region where Tehran and Washington have been on a collision course recently....

Reuters - Iran has moved a mock-up U.S. aircraft carrier to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, satellite images show, suggesting it will use the look-alike vessel for target practice in war games in a Persian Gulf shipping channel vital to world oil exports. The use of dummy American warships has become an occasional feature of training by Irans Revolutionary ...

SHANA -- President Hassan Rouhani and Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh officially inaugurated the construction of a 1,000-km pipeline extending from Goreh to Jask. The pipeline would enable to Iran to carry 1 mb/d of crude oil from Makran export terminal to target markets. Rouhani said the project was strategic, adding: Today is the ...

AP Armed men boarded a Hong Kong-flagged tanker ship Tuesday off the coast of Iran near the crucial Strait of Hormuz, holding the ship for a short time before releasing it amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S., authorities said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the seizure, though suspicion fell on Irans paramilitary ...

Forbes | H I Sutton: Evidence suggests that Iran has deployed an array of anti-ship missiles and large rockets overlooking Strait of Hormuz. The Strait is vital for the supply of oil from the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The waterway is being patrolled by U.S. Navy and its allies to protect vessels from Iranian action. Multiple amateur videos ...

RT - South Korea will send a naval destroyer and 300 troops to the Strait of Hormuz, the Defense Ministry in Seoul said on Tuesday. The move follows pressure from the US amid tensions between Washington and Tehran, AFP said. Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on shipping vessels in the strait, a strategic point for the worlds oil trade,...

Reuters |Luke Baker: Iran is unlikely to block the Strait of Hormuz, the worlds busiest oil-shipping channel, in reprisal for the killing of Qassem Soleimani for fear of aggravating its Gulf allies and China, regional analysts said on Monday. Tehran has long threatened to block the waterway between Iran and Oman - 33 km (21 miles) wide at its narrowest ...

Press TV - The UK Navy says it will accompany the British-flagged ships through the strategic Strait of Homuz, as regional tensions escalate in the wake of the US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq. London says the escort is aimed at providing "protection" for its commercial ships, as tensions run high in the region after ...

Reuters - The U.S. aircraft carrier strike group Abraham Lincoln sailed through the vital Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, U.S. officials told Reuters, amid simmering tensions between Iran and the United States. Tensions in the Persian Gulf have risen since attacks on oil tankers this summer, including off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, and ...