The U.S. news headline was all about Iran seizing an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. But one had to read the entire article to see that the tanker was actually seized by the United States and Iran just seized it back.
Tag: Iran
IRAN SAYS BOMB MAKER RESPONSIBLE FOR MASSIVE ATTACK EARLIER THIS MONTH IS FROM ISRAEL
Iranian authorities said the bomb maker behind the twin attacks at a memorial for Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general, earlier this month was a Tajik national and one of the suicide bombers was Tajik and Israeli, according to a report.
IRANIAN PRESIDENT SAYS OCTOBER HAMAS ATTACK WILL BRING AN END TO ISRAEL
Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president, told a crowd at a funeral honoring the 89 people killed in an ISIS-claimed suicide attack that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation “will bring about the end of the Zionist regime” and promised to retaliate.
IRAN BLAMES U.K. FOR ROLE IN ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES AGAINST PALESTINIANS IN GAZA
Iran’s top diplomat held a phone call with Britain’s David Cameron, the foreign secretary, on Sunday and blamed the U.K. for its role in the war crimes and genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza—noting that the conflict’s history did not begin on 7 October.
‘ZIONIST ENEMIES’ LAUNCH CYBERATTACK ON IRAN GAS STATIONS
Iran blamed a “software problem” for the major interruption on Monday that knocked about 70 percent of the country’s 33,000 gas stations out of service, but an Israeli-linked hacker group claimed responsibility.
IRANIAN HACKERS ATTACK U.S. WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS
The CyberAv3ngers, a group known to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been running cyberattacks on digital devices called programmable logic controllers that are common in U.S. municipal water and sewage processing systems as well as in equipment in energy, healthcare, and food and beverage manufacture, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed.
ISRAEL HAD PLANS TO ATTACK YEMEN AFTER OCTOBER HAMAS INVASION
Tomer Bar, the Israeli Air Force commander, told reporters last week that Israel had attack plans for Yemen after the 7 October Hamas attack raised fears of a multi-front war in the country.
IRAN SIGNALS TO U.S. THAT IT DOES NOT WANT LARGER CONFLICT, WARNS AGAINST MORE ATTACKS IN GAZA
Iran has told the U.S. through diplomatic channels that it has no interest in joining a war effort against Israel—but the Israeli bombings and humanitarian conditions in Gaza could reach the point that it will have to intervene.
BLINKEN WARNS IRAN NOT TO GET INVOLVED
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Iran that Washington would have a decisive response if its military or proxies in the Middle East tried to attack American forces in the region.
U.S. PUMPS MIDDLE EAST REGION WITH WEAPONS AS ISRAELI GROUND INVASION LOOMED
The U.S. has been fortifying its positions in the Middle East in preparation for a direct war with Iran as Israel continues to destroy Gaza, choke off Gazans from life-saving aid, and prepare for a ground invasion that could result in Iranian proxies joining the conflict.