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US: Saudi oil attacks came from southwest Iran
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US believes the attacks that crippled Saudi Arabian oil facilities last weekend originated in southwestern Iran, a US official told Reuters yesterday, an assessment that further increases tension in the Middle East. Three officials, speaking to Reuters on
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UK: Iran seized two oil tankers in Gur, Tehran says only one
LONDON/DUBAI: Britain said Iran seized two oil tankers in the Gulf yesterday and told Tehran to return the vessels or face consequences in the latest confrontation to ratchet up tension along a vital international oil shipping route. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
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Trump threatens to attack Iran, Tehran calls him ‘mentally retarded’
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: US President Donald Trump threatened to obliterate parts of Iran yesterday if it attacked ‘anything American,’ in a new war of words with Iran which condemned fresh US sanctions on Tehran as ‘mentally retarded.’ But Trump later left the
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Trump slaps sanctions on Ayatollah, Iranian officials
WASHINGTON/RIYADH: US President Donald Trump targeted Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top Iranian officials with sanctions yesterday, taking a dramatic, unprecedented step to increase pressure on Iran after Tehran’s downing of an unmanned American drone. With tensions
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Pentagon mulling request to send 5,000 troops to Middle East
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defense is considering its military’s request to send about 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East amid increasing tensions with Iran. Tehran and Washington have traded barbs with one another this month, following US President
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Iran: We can easily hit US ships in the Gulf
DUBAI: In a sharp rebuke against the US, Iran said that it could “easily” hit U.S. warships in the Gulf, the latest in days of sabre-rattling between Washington and Tehran, while its top diplomat worked to counter US sanctions and
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