Yemen's Houthi group allied with Iran has threatened attacks on 300 Saudi targets. If carried out it will be seen by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as a clear provocation.
An influential pro-Iranian Iraqi politician has offered to mediate between Iran and the United States in a meeting with Joey Hood, Chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Mission in Iraq.
After a rocket landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, President Donald Trump tweeted an ominous warning to Tehran saying, "If Iran wants to fight, that will the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again."
A court in Tehran on Sunday sentenced Yasin Ramin a well-connected businessman and an importer of medicine and medical equipment to seven years in jail, Fars news agency reported.
Israeli media have given extensive coverage to the rising tension in the Persian Gulf area, fearing wider implications for the region and Israel. Reactions by officials on the other hand have been limited.
A social media backlash has followed the decision to jail three writers in Iran for a total of 18 years.
For the first time in days a top Iranian revolutionary Guard commander has commented about ongoing tensions in the Persian Gulf, saying that Iran does not seek war, but is not afraid of it either.
For a second consecutive day on Saturday Syrian state media reported Israeli attacks on targets in the south of the country.
Saudi Arabia has called for two urgent meetings of its Arab allies later this month to discuss recent attacks on shipping and oil production sites amid rising tensions with bitter regional rival Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for an Iranian man accused of murdering an American woman during a robbery in 2012.
In a series of evacuations of personnel and citizens by Western and Gulf countries from Iraq in recent days, Exon Mobil is reported to be evacuating 50 U.S. employees from an Iraqi oil field.
Bahrain ordered all its citizens to immediately leave Iran and Iraq amid U.S.-Iran tensions.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has said that even after the recent 60-day deadline set by Tehran, his country will continue to abide by the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Amnesty International has urged Tehran’s Prosecutor General to allow an imprisoned Swedish-Iranian scientist to receive specialized medical care after months of suffering from serious health problems.
As tensions between Iran and the United Sates seemed to be contained in the past two days, U.S. diplomats relayed a warning of being “misidentified” to commercial aviation in the Persian Gulf region.
Friday Prayers leaders in various Iranian cities have ruled out the possibility of a war with the United States in their sermons on May 17.
A deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has accused a pro-western group of Iranian politicians of "playing into the hands of the enemy" and "trying to impose another JCPOA on Iran"
Iranian hardline media appears to be playing down the possibility of military conflict with the United Sates, stressing divisions in the Trump team and distancing Iran from recent attacks in the Gulf region.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said the international community must normalize “Iran’s economic relations” to save the 2015 nuclear agreement.
The commander of Iran’s extraterritorial military operations recently met with different Iraqi Shiite militias, telling them to “prepare for proxy war”, according to a report by The Guardian.
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