Saleh al-Arouri the deputy chief of Hamas, who recently led a delegation of the organization’s senior officials to Tehran, said Iran promised to offer financial support despite its own problems under the US sanctions.
According to some confidential sources, Iran’s major military commander, Qassem Suleimani, met with a group of pro-Iranian militia leaders in Syria, asking them to prepare for any conflict with Americans.
Indian government has confirmed that Iran freed nine of 12 members of the Panama-flagged oil tanker, MT Riah, which was seized by Iran on July 14, Al Arabiya reported on Friday.
A delegation of senior Hamas officials had visited Tehran on Saturday, hoping for further financial and military supports from the Islamic Republic of Iran, ISNA reported.
In an audio recording released on Sunday by Guardian, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps can be heard threatening UK’s Stena Impero ship and ordering a British naval officer of turning the ship’s course.
Early Saturday, Iran admitted it has sized a British-flagged oil tanker giving contradictory justifications for doing so including “violations of international rules,” and “having an accident with an Iranian ship.”
Iranian officials and its military announced that all the country’s drones have returned safely to base, denying US President Donald Trump’s announcement late on Thursday about the demolish of an Iranian drone by USS Boxer warship in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported.
Iran’s state media announced on Thursday that the country’s Revolutionary Guard Cops has a foreign oil tanker apparently as hostage and a reaction against UK, which recently sized an Iranian oil supertanker, accused of violating sanctions by trying to transfer oil to the Syrian
Tehran is the prime suspect behind the missing of an oil tanker, reportedly belongs to UAE navigating in the Persian Gulf, which has disappeared for days now, foreign media reported on Wednesday.
