The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has categorically dismissed the US militarys presence in the Persian Gulf under the pretext of securing the strategic maritime region. Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said on Friday that only Iran and other regional countries will ensure the security of the Persian Gulf and ...

The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)s Navy says during confrontations in the Persian Gulf over the past 18 months, Iranian forces have slapped the Americans six times. Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, speaking at a gathering of Basijstudents at the former US embassy compound in Tehran Saturday,was apparently referring to the ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif once again questioned the presence of US forces in the Persian Gulf waters. In a tweet on Tuesday, the foreign minister mentioned the US Coast Guard, asking, Exactly whose coast are you supposed to be "guarding"? He also posted an image in which The Guardian is reporting that a US ship fired 30 warning ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif warned US President Donald Trump against playing with fire, and said that any fireworks will backfire badly. New intelligence from Iraq indicate that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americansputting an outgoing Trump in a bind with a fake casus belli, Zarif wrote. Be careful ...

A military advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution says the countrys armed forces enjoy 'operational readiness' but will not start a war. Speaking in a live TV program on Friday, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said that Iranian armed forces are constantly monitoring US military moves in the region. We know the strengths and weaknesses ...

Irans Judiciary Chief Ibrahim Raisie said on Friday that the full withdrawal of American forces from the region as well as bringing of the perpetrators of the heinous assassination to justice are among parts of Iran's harsh revenge for the assassination of General Soleimani. Addressing a ceremony for commemorating the martyrdom anniversary ...

The United Nations Security Council and the international community should compel the United States to end destabilizing measures in the Persian Gulf region, Irans Charg d'Affaires to UN Eshagh Al-Habib has said. In a letter to the President of the United Nations Security Council Jerry Matthews Matjila, Iran's Ambassador and Chargs D'affaires Eshagh ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the United States would be held responsible for the consequences of any possible adventurism in the region. Speaking in a telephone conversation with his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah on Fri., Zarif reiterated that Washington would be held accountable ...

ranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran would cut the US legs off the region in retaliation for last year's assassination of the IRGC top commander Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani at a US drone attack in Baghdad. You cut the hand of our General and your legs will be cut off from the region, the president said while speaking ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif referred to the suspicious moves of the US in the Persian Gulf, saying Washington would be responsible for the consequences of any adventurism in the region. The Iranian diplomat made the remarks in a phone talk with his Qatari counterpart, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, on Tuesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

Press TV - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy chief has said a recent incident with US forces in the Persian Gulf happened as they entered a drill area despite despite having been warned in advance not to approach it. Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said US forces will be pursued in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman. They had entered ...

RT - American forces will get a heavy response if they cause trouble in a gulf that is historically linked to Persia, not to the US, Tehran has warned, a week after Trump vowed to shoot and destroy its ships in the troubled waters. Irans President Hassan Rouhani has needled Washington once again by recalling Middle Eastern toponymy in a recent speech ...

Al-Monitor - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said today that the Persian Gulf belongs to Iran and not the United States in the latest war of words between the two countries. The Americans should know that this waterway is called the Persian Gulf, state-controlled Press TV quoted Rouhani as saying. It is not called the New York Gulf or the Washington ...

Press TV - Thursday marks the 45th anniversary of the end of US war on Vietnam, which brought embarrassment and shame for Washington. In 1955, the pro-American Ngo Dinh Diem became President of South Vietnam, and with the help of the US, started to arrest anyone suspected of being in the Viet Minh communist coalition. The US then gradually increased ...

Press TV - A senior Iranian officialhas warned that the country will launch missile strikes on American bases in the region if its national security is endangered, downplaying a recent US threat of naval action as mere propaganda. Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Irans Expediency Discernment Council,told theDoha-based Aljazeerabroadcaster on Wednesday ...

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 ...