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Kuwait: Cabinet submits resignation as the new emir asks PM to prepare for legislative elections
Oct 06, 2020 08:33Kuwait’s new emir has called the cabinet to carry on its duties and get ready for parliamentary elections slated for later this year after the prime minister tendered his government’s resignation.
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Zarif asserts Iran's support for Kuwait in meeting with new emir
Oct 04, 2020 08:28Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has sat down with Kuwait’s new emir, who has taken the reins of the tiny Persian Gulf state since the demise of his predecessor Sheikh Sabah.
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Iran says its sovereignty over trio of Persian Gulf islands ‘indubitable’
Oct 01, 2020 04:00Iran’s Foreign Ministry has reaffirmed the country’s “indubitable” sovereignty over three Persian Gulf islands, dismissing the UAE top diplomat’s “hackneyed” claims about them at the UN General Assembly.
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Iran’s largest container port being prepared for mega-ships: Official
Sep 30, 2020 03:06Very large container ships with capacities of up to 22,000 20-foot equivalent unit containers (TEU) would be able to dock at Iran’s Shahid Rajaee port on the Persian Gulf coast by March, says Iran’s chief maritime and port official.
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Normalization with Israel heightens differences, foments insecurity in region: Shamkhani
Sep 27, 2020 12:29Any form of normalization in relations between the illegal Zionist entity and regional countries not only amounts to profound betrayal of the rights of Palestinians, but also deepens the divide among the very countries that take such a step, says the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC).
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IRGC unveils new naval ballistic missile
Sep 27, 2020 08:19The chief commander of the Islamic Republic Guards Corps (IRGC) said that Iran will never stop “manufacturing power” as the elite force unveils its third-generation naval strike ballistic missile.
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Iran’s Navy, IRGC to receive new combat vessels this year: Commanders
Sep 25, 2020 06:15The naval forces of the Iranian Army and Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are set to receive new combat and logistics vessels this year, according to the forces’ commanders.
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IRGC drones capture strikingly close footage of US strike group
Sep 25, 2020 02:41Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) releases intricate and strikingly close footage captured by the elite defense force’s indigenously-manufactured drones of an American strike group right before its passage into the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran’s IRGC opens new naval base at Strait of Hormuz
Sep 24, 2020 03:30The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has opened a new naval base at Sirik, a coastal Iranian town east of the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
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New platform installed in Persian Gulf oilfield
Sep 24, 2020 02:56Iranian technicians and engineers have successfully installed another offshore drilling rig in the Persian Gulf waters as the country keeps expanding crude production.