DUBAI/ATHENS—Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf on Friday, shortly after Tehran warned it would take “punitive action” against Athens over the confiscation of Iranian oil by the United States from a tanker held off the Greek coast. “The Revolutionary Guards Navy today seized two Greek tankers for violations in Gulf waters,” said…
Accident at Iran’s Sensitive Military Parchin Site Kills One Engineer
An engineer died and another employee was injured after an accident on Wednesday in a research center at the Parchin military site affiliated with Iran’s Defence Ministry, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday. Fars news said investigations into the cause of the accident were under way. Situated 60km (37 miles) southeast of Tehran,…
CBSA Will Decide Whether Iran Soccer Team Can Enter Canada: PM
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada Border Services Agency will be the department that decides whether Iran’s men’s soccer team is allowed into the country for a game next month. Canada is set to host Iran in a friendly match in Vancouver on June 5, but controversy about the game has swirled and Trudeau said…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Used Detainees as ‘Tool’: Former UK Foreign Secretary
The former British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has told a committee of MPs that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards often used their control of detainees like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a “tool” to prevent compromises they opposed. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, who had dual British and Iranian nationality, and who returned to the UK in March after spending six years…
Iran Building Collapse Kills 11 as Mayor and Others Detained
TEHRAN, Iran—Rescuers dug through debris Tuesday of a building collapse in southwestern Iran that killed at least 11 people, fearful that many more could still be trapped beneath the rubble as authorities arrested the city’s mayor in a widening probe of the disaster. The collapse Monday of an under-construction 10-story tower at the Metropol Building…
5 Dead, Scores Trapped After Building Collapses in Iran: State TV
DUBAI—Five people were killed when a 10-storey building in Iran’s southern city of Abadan partly collapsed and rescuers were trying to help at least 80 people left trapped under the rubble, Iranian state TV reported on Monday. The semi-official Mehr news agency identified the building as a residential-commercial property on Amir Kabir street in the…
Iran Revolutionary Guard Colonel Is Shot Dead in Tehran
TEHRAN, Iran—A senior member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike, state TV reported. Although the Guard gave only scant detail about the attack that occurred in broad daylight in the heart of Iran’s capital, the group blamed the killing on “global…
Iran Seizes Foreign Ship With Smuggled Fuel, Detains Crew: IRNA
DUBAI—Iranian authorities seized a foreign ship attempting to smuggle fuel out of the country and detained its crew, state new agency IRNA said on Wednesday. Iran, which has some of the world’s cheapest fuel prices due to heavy subsidies and the plunge in value of its national currency, has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling by…
PM Says Inviting Iran to Vancouver Soccer Friendly Is Not ‘A Very Good Idea’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a soccer friendly between Canada and Iran next month in Vancouver is ill-advised. “This was a choice by Soccer Canada,” Trudeau said Tuesday in St. John’s, when asked about the match. “I think it wasn’t a very good idea to invite the Iranian soccer team here to Canada. But that’s…
France Says 2 Citizens Detained in Iran, Demands Immediate Release
WEISSENHAUS, Germany—France summoned a senior Iranian diplomat on Thursday after two of its citizens were detained in Tehran in what Paris said was a baseless arrest, an incident likely to complicate ties between the countries as wider talks on reviving a nuclear deal stall. Iran’s intelligence ministry had said on Wednesday it had arrested two…
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