U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order to impose fresh sanctions on Iran just days after the country shot down a United States drone.
The U.S. Navy says more American warships have arrived to the Mideast amid heightened tensions with Iran, replacing other ships on duty.
Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will serve out her five-year prison sentence, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday, dismissing a call for her release by a British minister visiting Tehran.
President Donald Trump on Monday told other countries to protect their own Gulf oil shipments, declaring that the United States has only limited strategic interest in the "dangerous" region.
Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs warned regional rival Iran there would be more sanctions if it continued its "aggressive polices", but said Riyadh wanted to avoid war.
A senior Iranian military commander has threatened more shoot-downs of U.S. surveillance drones in the Persian Gulf region.
Russian officials continue to criticize U.S. policy towards Iran, especially new sanctions to be announced Monday by Washington.
Iran’s minister of communication and iformation technology in a reaction to reports of U.S. cyber-attacks has said that these attempts were not successful.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not seeking war with Tehran after a senior Iranian military commander warned any conflict in the Gulf region could spread uncontrollably and threaten the lives of U.S. troops.
A news website close to Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has reported that he has had a loud argument with his vice-president Es'haq Jahangiri during a meeting on Saturday, June 22.
The United Arab Emirates on Sunday called for negotiations to defuse tensions between the United States and Iran after Tehran shot down a US drone.
The latest official figures from China show that its trade with Iran suffered a substantial drop in the first five months of 2019, compared with the same period last year.
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