CBS News - Russia has accused the Trump administration of a "provocation" for its decision to send about 1,000 more U.S. troops to the Middle East amid soaring tension with Iran. Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan announced the troop surge on Monday -- the latest in a tit-for-tat escalation with Iran following attacks on two tankers ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson dismissed the accusations that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has recently levelled against Tehran, slamming them as an attempt to whitewash the disastrous results of the Saudi kingdoms wrong policies. In a statement on Monday, Abbas Mousavi said Bin Salmans hostile remarks are the continuation ...

Alwaght - Following the explosions hitting two oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hurmuz, as it was largely expected the US officials and their allies immediately pointed the fingers of blame at Iran using their media propaganda in a bid to garner global consensus against Iran and put pressures to send the case to the United Nations Security ...

Sputnik | Ekaterina Blinova: A second mysterious attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman has escalated already simmering tensions in the Middle East and marred Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's talks in Tehran. Mark Sleboda, a security analyst and former nuclear reactor operator in the US Navy, has suggested that US military forces were likely ...

Tasnim European Union foreign ministers are looking for more information on who might be behind the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and called for utmost restraint. At Monday's meeting of EU foreign ministers, Germany and others insisted they need a clearer picture before wading into a diplomatic conflict which could have serious ...

Tasnim A former Iranian ambassador and Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the US and Israel launched the recent attack on two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman to overshadow the Japanese prime ministers visit to Iran. Hamid Reza Asefi told Tasnim that during Shinzo Abes official visit to the Islamic Republic a sabotage operation was carried out near ...

June 16, The Iran Project - Following US President Donald Trump's trip to Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a two-day trip to Iranfor what was widely seen as an attempt to calm escalating US-Iran tensions. This was the first visit by an incumbent head of the Japanese government to Iran since 1979. But the premier's efforts ended in flames ...

MNA UK ambassador to Iran Rob Macaire claims that he had not been summoned by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, rather, he was the one asking for an urgent meeting. Interesting. And news to me. I asked for an urgent meeting with the Foreign Ministry yesterday and it was granted. No summons, Macaire wrote on Sunday in response to a tweet which announced ...

Al-Monitor - The June 13 attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman has pushed tensions between Iran and the United States to new heights, raising concerns that the region risks a repeat of the infamous tanker war. Hours after the incident, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for the attacks on the Norwegian and Japanese tankers. This assessment ...

Sputnik - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused Iran of twin attacks on oil tankers in a vital Gulf shipping channel, according to excerpts of an interview published early Sunday. The Saudi Crown Prince called on the international community to take a "decisive stand" against what he believed was Iranian aggression during an interview with ...

IRNA Iranian Parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday that US has resorted to tanker attacks after failure of its harsh sanctions on Iran. Addressing Majlis on Sunday, Ali Larijani said it seems that attacks on oil tankers happened due to the fact that they got nothing from their harsh sanctions. Citing a US historical record, Larijani ...

Press TV- Japanese officials say Tokyo has dismissed a claim by the United States that Iran attacked two oil tankers both of them carrying Japanese-related cargo in the Sea of Oman. Japans Kyodo news agency cited informed state officials as saying Tokyo had demanded that Washington examine the case further, and that grainy video footage released ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to voice protest at the allegations that the UK foreign secretary has made against the Islamic Republic in the wake of a suspicious incident involving two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman. UK Ambassador to Iran Robert Macaire attended a meeting at the Foreign Ministry on Saturday ...

The New York Times | PeterBaker: To President Trump, the question of culpability in theexplosions that crippled two oil tankersin the Gulf of Oman is no question at all. Its probably got essentially Iran written all over it, he declared on Friday. The question is whether the writing is clear to everyone else. For any president, accusing another country ...

Press TV - Iran has warned the US to stop playing a blame game through"suspicious" attacks on oil tankers in the Middle East, describing the American behavior as "worrying". The stern warning by Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavion Friday came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo offhandedly blamed Tehran forattacks on two oil tankers ...

Press TV - Video footage released by the US military to blame Iran for the recentattacks on two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman has been disputed even by Washington's allies and Western analysts. Less than a day after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) released the video late Thursday purportedly showing "Iranian sailors" removing a mine from the Japanese-...

Press TV - The US military has released a grainy video that it claims showedan Iranian navy boat removing an unexploded mine attached to the hull of the Japanese-owned tanker Kokura Courageous attacked in the Gulfof Oman. The video was released by the US Central Command late Thursday, purportedly showing "Iranian sailors" removing a mine from the ...

RT - The Japanese company that owns the Kokuka Courageous tanker has said its crew spotted flying objects before the attack in the Gulf of Oman, contradicting US claims that the vessel was damaged by a naval mine. Yutaka Katada, president of Kokuka Sangyo, told reporters on Friday that sailors on board the ill-fated oil tanker observedflying objectsjust ...

Press TV - Hours after two tankers were reportedly attacked in the Sea of Oman, a flurry of international reactions poured in from various countries, companies, and political figures as well as financial markets, the gist of which follows. Russia: Don't use tanker attacks to pressure Iran On Thursday, Russia warned against rushing to apportion ...

Sputnik - Moscow warns against hasty conclusions and attempts to blame Iran for the incident in the Gulf of Oman, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said. "I would use this opportunity to warn against hasty conclusions, any attempts to lay the blame on those who are unwanted by a number of well-known states", Ryabkov told reporters after ...