British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned that a conflict could break out "by accident" between the United States and Iran amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.
Recent remarks by Iran’s education minister about 14 million schoolchildren being ready to go to war, has led to public outcry and condemnations among Iranians.
Iran said on May 13 that it has sentenced an Iranian citizen who works for the British Council to 10 years in prison on charges of "spying."
At meeting in Brussels of EU foreign ministers the British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt appealed for calm after recent an escalation of tensions with Iran over its nuclear program and maritime security in the Persian Gulf.
Iran's Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raeesi says officials in a meeting last week have discussed the Iranian Parliament's bill to prevent violence against women. However, he added it takes a few weeks before the bill is finalized.
Amid heightened tensions with Iran, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says eight alleged terrorists have been killed in a shootout with security forces in the predominantly Shiite eastern region of Qatif.
The United Arab Emirates said Sunday four merchant vessels had been targeted by "acts of sabotage" in Gulf waters off its coast, amid rising tensions between neighboring Iran and the US.
The association of Iranian car makers has reported that car production was halved in the first Iranian month of the year (March 21-April20) compared with the same month last year.
The United Nations says the first day of the withdrawal from western Yemen of Iranian-backed Huthi rebels from two of the three Red Sea port facilities they've vowed to evacuate under a peace deal has gone according to plan.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has criticized both Iran and the United States in their moves and counter moves, in an interview with Le Parisien on May 11.
Syria received its first foreign oil supplies for six months last week, with the arrival of two shipments including one from Iran, a source familiar with Iranian oil shipments said, easing the war-torn country’s fuel crisis.
Migratory flamingos have returned to wetlands near Isfahan, central Iran, following substantial rainfalls in the area, reported official news agency IRNA on Saturday May 11.
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