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Iran Threatens Hormuz Closure, Halts U.S. Messages

NewsDesk MC — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:56:41 +0000

Dubai-Iran has stopped exchanging messages with the United States through mediators and may move to fully block the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, citing escalating Israeli military operations in Lebanon.

Tasnim said Iran and its regional allies were considering activating additional fronts, including the Bab El-Mandeb Strait, to pressure Israel and its supporters.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said any violation of the ceasefire in Lebanon would have consequences, holding the United States and Israel responsible.

The report said Tehran would not resume talks until Israeli military operations in Gaza and Lebanon cease and Israeli forces withdraw from occupied areas in Lebanon.

Iran Guards detain dual national for ‘organising unrest and sabotage,’ Tasnim reports

NewsDesk MC — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:17:29 +0000

Dubai (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday detained a dual national suspected of “trying to organise unrest and sabotage”, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, amid heightened security to thwart planned protests a year after a young woman’s death in police custody.

The unidentified individual had “several smart phones … and an appreciable sum of dollars” and was arrested by the Guards’ intelligence arm in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, the agency reported, citing its correspondent.

The latest arrest comes as Iran is set to release five Iranian-American detainees under a Qatar-mediated deal with the United States which will also include freeing five Iranians held by the United States and the unfreezing of $6 billion of Tehran’s funds that had been held in South Korea.

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have arrested dozens of dual nationals and foreigners in recent years, mostly on espionage and security-related charges.

Rights groups have accused Iran of trying to win concessions from other countries through arrests on security charges that may have been trumped up. Tehran, which does not recognise dual nationality, says such arrests are based on its criminal code and denies holding people for political reasons.

Iran’s navy unveils new vessels equipped with 600-km range missiles – Tasnim

NewsDesk MC — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:36:58 +0000

Dubai (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ navy has unveiled new vessels equipped with 600-km range missiles at a time of rising tensions with the U.S. in the Gulf, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.

The announcement was made during a military exercise off the coast of Abu Musa island, one of three Gulf islands under Iranian control but disputed by the United Arab Emirates.

The news agency gave no details about the missiles but cited a commander on the need to defend the islands.

“The islands of the Persian Gulf are part of Iran’s honour and we will defend them,” Revolutionary Guards’ Navy Commander Alireza Tangsiri said, adding that Gulf security needed to be provided by regional countries.

“The Persian Gulf belongs to all of the region’s countries … These states must be very prudent and prevent themselves from falling into the conspiracies and divisive plans of extra-regional countries,” he added.

Last month, the United States sent additional F-35 and F-16 fighter jets, along with a warship to the Middle East, in a bid to monitor waterways in the region following Iran’s seizure of commercial shipping vessels in recent months.