On May 3, The Times published a bombshell front-page report alleging that Tehran was “almost certainly” attempting to interfere in the impending Scottish parliament elections, “encouraging Scottish separatism,” in order to “attack the constitutional integrity” of the UK. The source of this shocking claim was a preview of a report …
Read More »Biden administration denies Iranian state media report of prisoner-swap agreement with Tehran that would free four Americans
“Unfortunately, that report is untrue,” Klain said in an interview Sunday on CBS News’ ‘Face the Nation’ program. “There is no agreement to release these four Americans. We’re working very hard to get them released. We’ve raised this with Iran . . . but so far, there’s no agreement to …
Read More »Iranian and American ships avoid NEAR MISSES in tense Persian Gulf encounter, says US Navy (VIDEO)
Speaking on Tuesday, Commander Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the US Navy’s Middle East-based Fifth Fleet, told the Associated Press that there had been two incidents of “unsafe maneuvers” by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In a video published by the US Navy, the Iranian Harth support ship appears …
Read More »‘We don’t know who did it, but Israel will be taught a lesson,’ Iranian army chief warns after oil tanker attack
A fire erupted aboard an Iranian oil tanker off the Syrian coast on Saturday, after what the Syrian Arab news agency described as a suspected “attack by a drone from the direction of Lebanese waters.” Some reports said three people were killed, but others insisted there were no fatalities and …
Read More »‘DRONE ATTACK’ leaves Iranian tanker ablaze off Syrian coast – reports
Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, which threatened one of the vessel’s tanks, the Syrian Arab news agency reported on Saturday. Syria’s oil ministry had originally reported the tanker fire, with officials telling state-run media that the ship had been attacked by a drone that came from Lebanese waters. The tanker …
Read More »Iranian ‘spy ship’ damaged in ‘attack’ along major Red Sea shipping route – reports
State-owned Saudi broadcaster Al-Hadath TV reported the attack on Tuesday, citing an unnamed source calling it a “likely” Israeli operation off the coast of Eritrea. The vessel was identified as the Saviz, which Israel and Saudi Arabia have long accused of being a “forward base” for the IRGC in the …
Read More »China set to buy millions of barrels of ‘cheap’ Iranian crude oil this month
That would be almost half the amount Saudi Arabia exports to China. An earlier report by Reuters from the beginning of the month said that China was buying record-high volumes of Iranian crude in anticipation of the Biden Administration lifting sanctions on Tehran. Even India, the report said, started planning …
Read More »Facebook bans Press TV page AGAIN as Iranian outlet decries move as ‘censorship’ & ‘attack on free speech’
“Without any prior warning, Facebook informed Press TV on Friday that its account had been shut down for what it claimed to be the Iranian news channel’s failure to ‘follow our Community Standards,’” the outlet reported, calling the ban “yet another attack by the US-based social media giant on Iranian …
Read More »Israel most likely responsible for blast on Iranian container ship in Mediterranean – media
“Considering the geographical location and the way the ship was targeted, one of the strong possibilities is that this terrorist operation was carried out by the Zionist regime (Israel),” an unnamed investigator told the Nournews agency. Several containers on the deck of the Shahr-e Kord vessel were hit with high-explosive …
Read More »WATCH Iranian missiles rain down on US base in Iraq following Soleimani assassination in newly declassified VIDEO
US Central Command released the declassified footage to CBS for a ‘60 Minutes’ segment over the weekend, in which six Qiam 1 missiles are seen raining down on the Ayn al-Asad airbase, which houses US troops in Iraq’s western Anbar Province. Filmed in grainy infrared, the brief annotated video shows …
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