Reuters - A U.S. Navy ship navigated near the Venezuelan coast on Tuesday in what the U.S. militarys Southern Command called a freedom of navigation operation, a day after a cargo ship from U.S. foe Iran docked at a port of the South American country.
In a post on its website, the Southern Command said the USS Nitze, a missile destroyer, sailed ...
Reuters - The Iranian navy will maintain regular missions in the Persian Gulf, the ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday, a day after the United States warned mariners there to stay away from U.S. warships.
The naval units of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman will continue their regular missions in accordance ...
Reuters - In an alert that appeared aimed squarely at Iran, the U.S. Navy issued a warning on Tuesday to mariners in the Persian Gulf to stay 100 meters (yards) away from U.S. warships or risk being interpreted as a threat and subject to lawful defensive measures.
The notice to mariners, which was first reported by Reuters, follows U.S. President ...
Iran Front Page - The US Navy has sent its P8-Poseidon patrol aircraft from the VP-26 Tridents as well as four warships to the Caribbean region for possible encounter with a group of Iranian super-tankers moving fuel to Venezuela, a report says.
Irans Fars News Agency claimed in a report on Saturday that the US Navy has deployed its USS Detroit ...
FNA - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi rapped the US for illegal presence in the region, saying that Washington should withdraw from the region.
Principally, we do not recognize the Americans presence, specially, their military presence in the Persian Gulf region, ad consider it as illegal and against the stability and security ...
Bloomberg | James Stavridis: Trumps tweet about destroying them for harassment risks turning a tense situation into a war.
President Donald Trump sent a warning shot across the bow of Iran last week, tweeting that any further harassment of U.S. warships by Tehrans navy in the Gulf would result in the destruction of the Iranian units. The tweet was ...
MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in his Wednesday remarks in cabinet meeting, addressed the US saying that "this gulf's name is the Persian Gulf not the gulf of New York or Washington gulf."
"The US must spot applying its conspiracy plots against the Iranian nation who has its name on this gulf and has protected it in history," Rouhani said....
Tasnim A senior spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces shrugged off the US presidents recent comments about naval confrontation with Iran, warning that the Americans will receive a hard slap in the face for the merest violation of Irans territorial waters.
Speaking in a televised program on Tuesday, Brigadier General Abolfazl ...
Tasnim Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reminded Washington that American forces have no business 7,000 miles away from home and are provoking Iranian sailors in the Persian Gulf.
The US military is hit by over 5000 #covid19 infections. @realdonaldtrump should attend to their needs, not engage in threats cheered on by Saddam's terrorists,...
Press TV - Tehrans mission to the United Nations repeats the countrys firm resolve to protect its sovereignty against any act of aggression, saying the Islamic Republic will not capitulate to intimidation, after US President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iranian boats protecting the country's territorial waters.
Iran has proven that it will ...
Press TV - US President Donald Trump has retweeted a post in praise of his belligerent anti-Iran policyfrom a fake account apparently run by the highly notorious Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group.
Repeating his threats against Tehran, Trump on Wednesday shared a tweet from Heshmat Alavi, a persona who praisedthe US president for ...
IRNA Iran has summoned Swiss Ambassador to Tehran Markus Leitner over US forces harassing and provocative acts in the Persian Gulf, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said that in a letter given to Swiss envoy, the US Administration has been reminded about the importance of observing international ...
Reuters - Iran will destroy U.S. warships if Tehrans security is threatened in the Gulf, head of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards Hossein Salami told state TV on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump warned Tehran over harassment of U.S. ships.
I have ordered our naval forces to destroy any American terrorist force in the Persian Gulf ...
Press TV - Iran's defense minister hasdismissed USreports of harassment by Iranian vesselsas "baseless" and said the "illegal and aggressive" Americanpresence in the Persian Gulf is causing insecurity in the region.
"What leads to insecurity in the Persian Gulf region isactually the illegal and aggressive presence of the Americanswho have come from ...
FNA - Spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi blasted Washington for threatening Iran, saying that the US should focus on saving its forces from coronavirus.
Instead of bullying others today, Americans should put their efforts into saving their forces, who have contracted coronavirus, General Shekarchi said on ...
Press TV - A recent video released by Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps shows the IRGC Navy warning off a flotilla of US warships in the Persian Gulf as they try to approach the Iranian territorial waters.
In this video, released on Sunday, a personnel of the IRGC Navy warns the vessels to stop inspecting and detaining Iranian fishing or commercial ...
Tasnim The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy dismissed a Hollywood-style American account of a recent encounter between the IRGC forces and the US vessels in the Persian Gulf, advising the US to observe the maritime regulations and refrain from adventurism.
In a statement on Sunday, the IRGC Navy refuted the American account of what happened ...
MNA As an annual reminder, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thu. republished his tweet in two years ago with the concept that the US Navy cant seem to find its way around Irans waters.
US Navy cant seem to find its way around our waters. Perhaps because it hasnt figured out its name: Persian Gulf, as its been called for 2,000 yrs ...
Reuters - Irans defence minister on Friday dismissed U.S. reports of harassment by Iranian vessels as baseless and said the illegal and aggressive American presence in the Persian Gulf was causing insecurity in the region.
What leads to insecurity in the Persian Gulf region is actually the illegal and aggressive presence of the Americans who have ...
Press TV - The United States Navy is claiming that 11 Iranian ships repeatedly came close to its military vessels in dangerous and harassing approaches in the Persian Gulf.
The US Naval central command made the allegation in a statement on Wednesday.
It alleged that the Iranian vessels repeatedly crossed the bows and sterns of the US vessels ...
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