TEHRAN, August 28 - A top Iranian navy commander says the country has full control of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and is ready to protect the waters as well as the Sea of Oman.
TEHRAN, August 6 - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it held a military drill in the Persian Gulf this week with the aim of securing the strategic waterway and deterring potential threats posed by the enemies.
TEHRAN, August 3 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has criticized the presence of American military forces in the Persian Gulf and has questioned why US forces are “in Iran's backyard” some 7,000 miles away from home.
TEHRAN, July 03 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the country’s people will never forget the downing of an Iranian passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf waters in a “barbaric operation” in 1988.
TEHRAN, May 28 - Britain’s former envoy to Bahrain says the Persian Gulf island has almost turned into a vassal state for the US and Saudi Arabia out of fear for its existence in the face of popular protests.
TEHRAN, May 16 - The United States is maintaining a large naval presence in the Persian Gulf possibly to provoke Iran in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the 2015 international nuclear deal with Tehran, says a political analyst from London.
TEHRAN, April 29 - A senior Iranian official said attempts by the proxies of the global arrogance to change the name of the Persian Gulf are "futile and temporary."
TEHRAN, February 28 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated Iran is after peace and security with the world, saying Persian Gulf neighboring countries can think about creating a large union for cooperation in trade and energy.
TEHRAN, February 19 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Russia can play a key role in bringing about a "paradigm shift" in the Persian Gulf region through its rising influence in the Middle East.
TEHRAN, February 17 - Iran's Navy commander emphasized the significance of developing Makran coastal area, stressing that reviving maritime civilization helps secure national interest and expand ties with the world.
TEHRAN, November 28 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow is concerned over the escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf region, some five months after a Saudi-led quartet of Arab states imposed a tight blockade on Qatar; and amid Riyadh's “baseless” accusations against Iran.
TEHRAN, November 28 - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said the strategy of close interaction between the naval forces of the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has thwarted the plots of “arrogant powers and adventurists” in the Persian Gulf region.
TEHRAN, October 22 - The British government has been accused of using its soldiers to demonstrate and promote weapon sales to Persian Gulf Arab kingdoms amid their continued involvement in the Saudi-led military aggression in Yemen that has left thousands of civilian casualties.
TEHRAN, September 23 - Iran has detained seven crew members of a fishing boat in the Persian Gulf for illegally entering the country’s territorial waters.
TEHRAN, September 5 - Iranian forces patrol the Persian Gulf in accordance with international regulations, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said, deriding the idea that such patrol operations or war games should be coordinated with trans-regional forces coming from thousands of miles away.
TEHRAN, September 4 - Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari has visited the construction of Iranian designed semi-heavy Fateh submarines in Bandar Abbas naval base on the Persian Gulf.
TEHRAN, August 15, YJC - Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has rejected US claims that a drone made an “unsafe approach” to an American aircraft carrier.
TEHRAN, July 29, YJC - Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has reported a second provocation by US warships in the Persian Gulf waters less than a week after a similar incident in the same region.