CENTCOM disables Panama-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman
CENTCOM said US forces on Saturday, 10 October, disabled the cargo ship Ocean Molika, which had left an Iranian port and was trying to break the naval blockade.
CENTCOM said US forces on Saturday, 10 October, disabled the cargo ship Ocean Molika, which had left an Iranian port and was trying to break the naval blockade.
Two US officials and one Israeli official denied Maariv's report that the US asked Israel to carry out a unilateral strike on the Islamic Republic before the elections.
The newspaper Kayhan, whose editor Ali Khamenei appoints, accused Mohammad Javad Zarif of helping America over a video about ambassadors and the Quds Force.
Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesman for the Islamic Republic's foreign ministry, was booed by the audience on Friday evening as he spoke on stage at the orchestral production “Arash” in Tehran.
Satellite images show the Islamic Republic is rebuilding the Minzadehei nuclear site in north-east Tehran, which Israel bombed in March.
Two explosive drones struck the headquarters of the Khabat Organization of Iranian Kurdistan near Erbil on Thursday night, hours after a threat from the Islamic Republic's consul.
Hamidreza Taraghi, a member of the central council of the Islamic Coalition Party, told Euronews that the Islamic Republic has ordered pre-emptive action against a possible Israeli nuclear attack.
A day after executing two protesters, the Islamic Republic summoned France's ambassador over police handling of protesting school students; Paris called the move a "provocation".
The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln has returned to San Diego after 321 days on a mission in the war with the Islamic Republic; the Pentagon announced the sinking of 64 Islamic Republic warships.
According to Bloomberg, Western officials say the Islamic Republic has retained its ability to build missiles and drones despite months of attacks; the White House rejected the assessment.
After Trump's pledge not to attack Iran before the midterm elections, hardline figures of the Islamic Republic have called for a pre-emptive strike and an escalation of the conflict.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday, 9 October, claimed responsibility for the attack on the LPG carrier NV Sunshine and threatened to extend attacks on ships beyond the Strait of Hormuz.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a campaign of "absolute isolation" against the Islamic Republic, the closing of land routes and the seizure of one billion dollars in cryptocurrency.
Nosrat Eftekhari, deputy police commander of Sistan and Baluchestan, was killed on Friday, 9 October, by a roadside bomb in Zahedan; the clashes have spread to Kerman.
Donald Trump announced on Thursday, 8 October, that the US will not attack Iran before the midterm elections, but the naval blockade of the Islamic Republic stays in place.
With Iran-US negotiations deadlocked, JD Vance called a real reduction in enrichment capacity the condition for ending the war, and Rubio said the Islamic Republic had missed chances for a deal.
Hossein Shariatmadari questioned in Kayhan the role of parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf in negotiations with the US, a new sign of the rift inside the Islamic Republic.
The Islamic Republic has announced the allocation of more than 110 hectares of land in the port of Chabahar to Afghanistan, a decision that has raised questions about its economic, legal and security dimensions.
The Panama-flagged tanker On Peace was hit by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz off Oman on Tuesday, 6 October; 12 of its 19 crew were injured and India condemned the attack.
On Tuesday, 6 October, CENTCOM called false the Islamic Republic's state media claim that a US Navy MH-60R helicopter had crashed in the Red Sea.