Iran warns of intensified retaliation if US, Israel strike energy sites again
Tehran, March 19 (IANS) Iran warned on Thursday that it would carry out more severe retaliatory strikes if the US and Israel attack its energy facilities again. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said in a statement published by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Sepah News that Tehran had not sought to […]
Iran says Israel, US strike South Pars – world’s largest gas field
TEHRAN(RAHNUMA): US-Israeli strikes hit Iranian facilities at a major Gulf gas field on Wednesday causing a fire, Iranian state television reported. “Moments ago, parts of the gas facilities located in the South Pars Special Economic Energy Zone in Asaluyeh were struck by projectiles fired by the American-Zionist enemy,” state television reported, citing Ehsan Jahanian, the […]
Iran missile attacks cause ‘extensive damage’ at Qatar energy hub
DUBAI(RAHNUMA): A major energy hub in Qatar suffered “extensive damage” from a missile attack on Wednesday as Iran targeted Gulf countries in response to an Israeli strike against Iran’s Pars gas field. Drones also targeted gas facilities in Saudi Arabia and the UAE came under fire on Wednesday evening after Iran warned it would strike […]
Trump warns of more strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island, pressures allies on Strait of Hormuz
PALM BEACH, Florida/DUBAI/JERUSALEM(RAHNUMA): US President Donald Trump threatened further strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub and urged allies to deploy warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, an artery for global energy supplies, as Tehran vowed to intensify its response. With the US-Israeli war on Iran in its third week, Trump said US […]
Iran FM sees no reason for talks after Trump says it wants deal
WASHINGTON(RAHNUMA): Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran was not interested in talks with the United States, pushing back on President Donald Trump’s stance that Tehran wants a deal to end the war. “We are stable and strong enough. We are only defending our people,” Araghchi told CBS’s “Face The Nation,” in an interview aired Sunday. […]
Trump rejects deal with Iran, seeks global help on Hormuz
Washington, March 15 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has rejected a potential deal with Iran to end the ongoing conflict, saying the proposed terms were “not good enough yet”, even as he called on countries around the world to deploy naval forces to help secure the Strait of Hormuz and keep global oil shipments moving. […]
Iran allows India-flagged tankers through Hormuz after talks between EAM Jaishankar, Araghchi
New Delhi/Tehran, March 12 (IANS) Iran has allowed India-flagged tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz following talks between External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, with the aim of keeping the critical sea route open for the transportation of crude oil and natural gas. According to sources familiar […]
Russia gains $6 billion from Iran war, says US Senator
Washington, March 12 (IANS) Russia has emerged as an unexpected economic beneficiary of the war involving Iran, earning billions of dollars from rising global oil prices triggered by the conflict, a US Senator said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday. Senator Angus King of Maine told military commanders that surging energy prices […]
Iran trying to hold the world hostage: US State Secy Rubio
Washington, March 9 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on Monday, accused Iran’s leadership of trying to “hold the world hostage”, saying American forces were carrying out a military operation aimed at dismantling the regime’s missile capabilities and weakening what he described as the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. “They are trying to hold […]
Trump says new Iran leader won’t last long without his approval
TERHAN(RAHNUMA): US President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that Iran’s next supreme leader would not last long without his approval, as Tehran prepared to reveal the successor to the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Nine days after US-Israeli strikes on his compound killed Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war, Iran’s Assembly of Experts met […]
