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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamanei approved attack on Saudi Arabia – report
US officials quoted by CBS said they were “caught completely off guard”
Ben Wallace
UK reinforces naval forces in Gulf with additional ship
HMS Defender has been re-routed from a previous mission in the Pacific
Bahrain King Hamad
Bahrain to join US-led efforts to protect Gulf navigation
Bahrain steps up to join US-led efforts to protect shipping in the Gulf amid tensions between Washington and Tehran
commercial vessels
Pompeo talks maritime security, Iran with Saudi crown prince
Iran has seized three tanker ships in strategic Gulf waters in a month, and the United States has accused it of carrying out multiple attacks on ships in the region
Hassan Rouhani
Saudi and US combine to tackle threats to Gulf maritime safety
China may escort its commercial vehicles in Gulf waters under US proposals for a maritime coalition
commercial vessels
Iran seizes third foreign ship in less than a month
Vessel is suspected of smuggling large volume of fuel, ISNA reports
Iran
Iran Guards seize ‘foreign tanker’ accused of fuel smuggling
Announcement follows Iran saying it had come to the aid of a foreign tanker after receiving a distress call
Bahrain protests
Bahrain jails 138 for planning Iran-linked ‘terror’ group
Public prosecutor says prison terms of three years to life are handed down for trying to build a Bahrain Hezbollah
Al Habtoor Group
Dubai tycoon Al Habtoor urges world leaders to defuse Iran threat
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor delivers hard-hitting speech to the 27th annual Arab-US Policymakers Conference
Ashura
Bahrain arrests 15 for trying to sow Ashura ‘chaos’
Bahrain has arrested 15 people it accuses of attempting to ’cause chaos’ during Shiite religious commemorations
iran nuclear deal
UAE, US act jointly to disrupt funding to elite Iran group
Sanctions have been imposed on six individuals and three companies funnelling money to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force
Aseman Airlines
Iran teams find wreckage of plane in Zagros mountains: spokesman
Aseman Airlines flight EP3704 disappeared on Sunday morning in the Zagros range with 65 people on board
extremism
Kuwait expels Iranian diplomats over ‘terror’ cell: official
Kuwait on Thursday ordered the expulsion of about 15 Iranian diplomats after the emirate’s top court convicted a “terror” cell of links to the Islamic republic, a government source told AFP.
Kuwait also ordered the closure of the Iranian “military, cultural and trade” missions, said the government official, who asked not to be named.
The Gulf state’s […]
Donald Trump
Video: Trump administration announces new sanctions against Iran
The administration says the new sanctions target more than a dozen Iranians and entities for supporting the regime’s ballistic missile program.
Donald Trump
US slaps sanctions on Iran despite meeting accord
Trump’s administration said Iran isn’t living up to spirit of the pact, with persistent efforts to destabilise the Middle East