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Trump’s threat to Iran has a hollow ring
May 06, 2020 07:20A tweet by US President Donald Trump on April 22 said, “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” Trump seems to be talking the language of war while indulging in politics by other means. Like his ban on immigration, he is resorting to distractions to turn attention away from his incompetence in tackling the COVID-19 crisis in the United States.
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Persian Gulf needs no US naval presence, weapons
May 04, 2020 10:50The United States is not a force for peace and stability in the Persian Gulf. The US must turn away from its deadly arms trade with the Arab littoral states, stop showing the flag and throwing grenade into the maritime areas, and focus instead on abiding by international law that says the region should be secured and protected by the littoral states only, including Iran.
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Iran has key role in keeping security of Persian Gulf: Leader
Apr 29, 2020 23:48Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution says Iran has a key role in keeping the security of the Persian Gulf, and the presence of extra-regional forces threatens any initiative that could benefit the people of the region.
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Any measure to extend Iran’s arms embargo in breach of Resolution 2231: Takht Ravanchi
Apr 29, 2020 13:03The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations has called US efforts to extend Iran’s arms embargo in contravention of Security Council Resolution 2231, which has endorsed the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal, saying the claim that the United States is still a party to the agreement allowing it to invoke a sanctions snapback under certain pretexts is nothing but “an unprecedented” joke.
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President Rouhani to US: This waterway is called Persian Gulf, not ‘New York’ Gulf
Apr 29, 2020 10:36In light of Washington’s incessant acts of military adventurism in the Persian Gulf region, President Hassan Rouhani has once again reminded the United States to whom the waterway truly belongs.
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Significance of IRGC comdr. remarks, review of Trump's bluffs and setbacks
Apr 29, 2020 05:19Reacting to recent threats by US officials such as President Donald Trump who ordered US terrorist troops to attack Iranian forces if they harass US ships in the Persian Gulf, Commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami noted “We will target any US combat unit which jeopardizes our security in the Persian Gulf.”
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Iranian general dismisses Trump’s threat, warns US of hard slap in face
Apr 29, 2020 03:04A senior spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces shrugged off the US president’s recent comments about naval confrontation with Iran, warning that the Americans will receive a hard slap in the face for the merest violation of Iran’s territorial waters.
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US to be held accountable for adventurism in region: Iranian spokesman
Apr 26, 2020 01:33The spokesman for Iran’s government warned the US that it will be held accountable for the consequences of adventurism in the region.
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President Rouhani: Iran closely watching US moves
Apr 26, 2020 00:37Iran's president has told the Qatari emir that Tehran won't initiate any conflict in the region despite the US provocative moves.
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Foreign Ministry protests US provocations, illegal measures in Persian Gulf
Apr 23, 2020 13:30The Foreign Ministry has summoned the Swiss ambassador, whose country represents the United Stats’ interests, to convey the Islamic Republic’s strong condemnation of the provocative and aggressive acts by the US Navy’s terrorist forces in the Persian Gulf close to the Iranian coastline.