Strait of Hormuz: outbound tanker hit by unidentified projectile on Sunday
UKMTO said a tanker leaving the Strait of Hormuz was hit by an unidentified projectile on Sunday, 11 October; the hull was damaged and the crew are safe.
UKMTO said a tanker leaving the Strait of Hormuz was hit by an unidentified projectile on Sunday, 11 October; the hull was damaged and the crew are safe.
UKMTO said an outbound tanker in the Strait of Hormuz was hit by an unknown projectile and caught fire; the IRGC had earlier claimed that a supertanker struck a mine.
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.
On the first Mehregan since the death of Ali Khamenei, Prince Reza Pahlavi dedicated the festival to the memory of the fallen of the January uprising and asked his compatriots to visit their families.
Senior US security officials discussed continuing the war with the Islamic Republic at Camp David, as the carrier Theodore Roosevelt set off for the Middle East. A source in Tehran says the government's assessment is that the war will resume.
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.