Satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed the MT Hankuk Chemi off Bandar Abbas on Monday afternoon without explanation. (AFP) January 4, 2021 A South Korean-flagged tanker bound for the United Arab Emirates has instead gone into Iranian territorial waters, with a security firm fearing the vessel has been seized.Satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed the MT Hankuk [...]
A satellite view of Iran's Fordow nuclear plant. (GOOGLE) January 4, 2021 Iran has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility, the government said on Monday, breaching a 2015 nuclear pact with major powers and possibly complicating efforts by U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to rejoin the deal. The move is the latest Iranian [...]
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Arabian Sea, January 19, 2012. (US Navy) January 4, 2021 The US reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Gulf Sunday, with the Pentagon saying that due to “recent threats” by Iran the USS Nimitz would stay in position. The [...]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (L), Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah (C), and Commander of Iran’s Quds Force Qassem Soleimani. (khamenei.ir) January 4, 2021 Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group makes a speech marking a year since the US assassination of Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani and a pro-Iran Iraqi militia leader, and [...]
The commander of the Air Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Ali Hajizadeh. (IRNA) January 02, 2021 Iran will not differentiate between US military bases in the region and the Arab countries hosting American troops if a war broke out, commander of the IRGC aerospace divison said on Saturday. “If something happens here [...]
Soleimani (2nd-L) was killed in a US drone strike on Jan. 3 last year after his convoy was attacked outside Baghdad airport. (AFP) January 02, 2021 The US and its Gulf allies have been warned to prepare for Iran-led terror attacks after Tehran ramped up threats of revenge on the eve of the first anniversary [...]
Iranian former major general and the commander of Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, undated. (Supplied) By Ehsan Mehrabi January 02, 2021 On December 27, 2020, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founding and leading member of Hamas, revealed that he had been gifted some 22 million dollars – in cash, and stuffed into suitcases – at Tehran Airport by [...]
An undated photo of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy patrol vessels. (FARS News) January 01, 2021 The Iranian navy has upped its alert level in the Persian Gulf in the past 48 hours, U.S. sources told CNN on Friday. It was unclear whether this was a defensive move and Iran was expecting a U.S. attack, [...]
Members of Iranian forces pray around the coffin of slain nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during the burial ceremony at Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in Tehran, on Nov 30, 2020. (Reuters) By Camelia Entekhabifard January 1, 2021 The year 2020, with all its challenges, from the coronavirus pandemic and its death tolls to the global economic recession, [...]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a sermon to the crowd during Friday Prayers in the capital Tehran, January 17, 2020. (AFP) By David Romano January 1, 2021 Iran’s woes during 2020 proved worse than most. The year began with shockwaves from the fuel price hike protests (which broke out in late November 2019) [...]
