US President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he has ordered sanctions on Iran’s national bank following the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.
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US President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he has ordered sanctions on Iran’s national bank following the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.
The United States said on Thursday it was building a coalition to deter Iranian threats following a weekend attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
'We won't blink to defend our territory,' Iran's foreign minister says
Bolton had been hawkish on Iran and other global challenges.
Tehran has advised Israel to stay clear of the Persian Gulf, where the US has been struggling to amass an anti-Iranian armada, noting that every vessel illegally present in the region increases the risk of an all-out conflict.
Germany is currently considering a joint maritime operation with the US and UK in the Persian Gulf. Even at the risk of angering Washington by refusing, Berlin has no appetite for conflict with Iran, analysts told RT.
UK government urgently seeking information after Stena Impero veered into Iranian waters
Heightened tensions between countries comes as Gibraltar court extends detention of Iranian ship
Move comes amid heightened tensions between countries
![Mohammad Javad Zarif at the UN on Thursday. He said: ‘If they [the Trump administration] are putting their money where their mouth is, they are going to do it.’ Photograph: Richard Drew/AP](/uploads/news/2019_07/5760_1.jpg "Iran makes 'substantial' nuclear offer in return for US lifting sanctions")
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released footage showing the seizure of a ship “smuggling fuel” in the Persian Gulf. The vessel bears the name of the UAE-owned tanker that recently vanished in the Gulf.
Iran's recent breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal are not significant and can be reversed, the European Union's foreign policy chief says.
Iran is ready to talk, but there are some conditions.
Tehran has announced it will step up its uranium enrichment over the 3.67-percent limit set under the 2015 nuclear accord, warning it will further scale down its commitments if its European partners don’t fulfill theirs.
North Korea says an Australian student who had been detained for several days before being released had been "spying" for news outlets.
As Iran ups the nuclear ante by confirming it has breached a key nuclear limit, there is one formidable man who will play a major role if tensions boil over.
As of today, Iran is set to breach a rule that will send foreign governments into a panic, in what experts have described as a “snowball effect”.
President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to use "overwhelming force" against Iran if it attacks U.S. assets or personnel.
The imposition of more sanctions could provoke further actions by Iran to add to the crisis that has unfolded since early May in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, analysts say.
Despite being “cocked and loaded” to launch an assault on Iran, President Donald Trump says that he eventually decided the strike would have been “not proportionate” to the downing of the unmanned US drone.