Tehran, July 21 (IANS) Several explosions were heard in southern and central Iran on Monday night and early Tuesday, Iranian media reported, as US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the launch of a new round of strikes against the country.Blasts were reported on Monday night in the counties of Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Bandar Lengeh and Qeshm in the southern province of Hormozgan, as well as the counties of Chabahar and Konarak in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, Xinhua news agen…
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Washington, July 9 (IANS) The United States launched another round of military strikes against Iran, saying the operation was aimed at degrading Tehran’s ability to threaten shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after what Washington described as recent attacks on commercial vessels in the strategic waterway. The latest operation came hours after President Donald Trump declared that he believed the fragile ceasefire with Iran was effectively over and warned Tehran that further attacks on commerc…
Tehran/New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) The emerging regional order increasingly favours countries capable of maintaining productive ties across geopolitical fault lines, and few major powers are as well-positioned as India. New Delhi enjoys robust relations with the United States, Israel and the Gulf nations while also preserving channels of engagement with Iran. Rather than forcing India to choose sides, a more stable Tehran-Washington relationship could widen the diplomatic space for New Delhi’s mul…
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) India has transformed its energy diplomacy from simple resource procurement into geopolitical hedging that preserves strategic autonomy through four interlocking pillars — supplier diversification, connectivity investment, financial engineering and energy‑transition diplomacy, a new report has said.While the world wonders at how India simultaneously expanded energy ties with sanctioned Russia, and improved relations with Washington, New Delhi proved that “modern geopo…
Tehran, May 8 (IANS) Iran’s main military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters has said that the US army attacked two Iranian vessels near the Strait of Hormuz and concurrently carried out airstrikes on civilian areas in southern Iran in cooperation with some regional states.The attacks by the US “aggressive and terrorist” army violated the ceasefire between Iran and the United States, said Ebrahim Zolfaghari, the headquarters’ spokesman, according to Iranian media.One of the targeted …
Tehran, May 5 (IANS) Fifteen of the remaining 22 crew members of an Iranian container ship seized by the United States last month have entered Iran, media reported.The Iranian-flagged vessel, the Touska, was boarded and seized by US forces off the coast of Iran’s southeastern port of Chabahar in the Gulf of Oman on April 19 under a US naval blockade targeting Iranian shipping. Semi-official Fars news agency said on Monday that the ship had a total of 28 crew members, who were taken into US custo…
New York, March 1 (IANS) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in an epochal attack by the US and Israel, marking an inflection point in the 46-year Shia-theocratic rule, as Tehran’s retaliation set off conflagrations in a swath of the Middle East.US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday the killing of the 86-year-old cleric, ending his iron-fisted rule over Iran for 36 years.Trump said on Truth Social, “He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophi…