Early signs of Iran claiming victory from the June 20 drone shooting emerged on Friday as Prayer Imams taunted the United States and demanded an "apology" from Washington.
The United States sought on Wednesday to bolster its case for isolating Iran over its nuclear and regional activities by displaying limpet mine fragments it said came from an oil tanker damaged in an attack last week and saying the ordnance looked Iranian in origin.
Led by Tehran's former mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran's neo-cons hope to win a sizeable majority in the next round of the country's parliamentary elections to be held in February 2020.
The limpet mines used to attack a Japanese-owned oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz last week bore "a striking resemblance" to similar mines displayed by Iran, a U.S. Navy explosives expert said Wednesday, stopping short of directly blaming Tehran for the assault.
Iran imports Russian equipment and agricultural products in exchange for crude oil it had already sold to Moscow, Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak said on Tuesday, June 18, in Tehran.
Some Arab and Iranian news reports say there have been secret intelligence meetings between Egypt and Iran in recent weeks, to deal with regional tensions.
Two top Iranian security officials have claimed that Tehran has uncovered a large U.S. spy network, without providing details. It is not even clear if they were referring to the same case.
Hostilities are heating up between the United States and Iran and while President Donald Trump says he's not looking to go to war with Tehran, it's unclear how the standoff can be resolved.
The deployment of 1,000 more US troops to the Middle East highlights the imbalance of forces in the region between Washington and Tehran.
U.S. President Donald Trump would consider using military force to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon but left open the question if it involved protecting oil supplies, he told Time magazine in an interview published on Tuesday.
Iran's gross domestic product, including oil production, shrank 4.9 percent in fiscal year 2018-19 compared with the year before, according to the latest report by Statistical Center of Iran's (SCI).
Iran has followed through on its threats to further scale back its compliance with a nuclear deal, saying time is running out to save the accord with world powers.
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