Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday he had not yet decided on how to respond to an expected U.S. request to send its navy to join a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen.
Stena Bulk, the British operator of a tanker seized by Iran, has made a formal request to visit the 23 crew members of the Stena Impero and is awaiting a formal response, it said on Sunday.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has called on the British government to “contain” those "domestic forces" that in his words “want to escalate existing tension between Iran and the UK well beyond the issue of ships.”
Iran said on Sunday it appreciated Saudi Arabia's efforts in the the return of an Iranian ship that had docked at Jeddah port because of technical problems in May, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.
An Israeli Cabinet minister says Iran knows "who not to mess with" because Israel is the only country in the world that is killing Iranian operatives.
In an audio recording released by a maritime security risk firm, a British naval officer can be heard saying that the transit of a British-flagged vessel through the Strait of Hormuz must not be impaired under international law, just before it is seized by Iranian forces.
Iran Parliament Speaker Says Detention of Oil Tanker Was An Answer to Seizure of Iranian Ship
Oman urged Iran on Sunday to let the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero, which it seized on Friday, depart.
Iranian state TV says gunmen have killed two members of the Revolutionary Guard and wounded another two near the border with Pakistan.
Iran’s presidential chief of staff has said in a letter that one billion euros ($1.12 billion) in hard currency allocated for importing medicines and essential goods “has disappeared”.
An Iranian ship which had gone to Jeddah port in Saudi Arabia because of technical problems in May is heading back to Iran, Iran's ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
The European Union on July 20 accused Tehran of risking "further escalation" and inhibiting efforts to defuse dangerous tensions in the strait used to transit most of the Middle East's oil
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