TEHRAN, August 19 -Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei thanked the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for downing an intruding US drone and detaining a trespassing British tanker , his representative in the IRGC says.
TEHRAN, August 15 - The Iranian tanker Grace 1 will likely be allowed to leave Gibraltar following a court decision which is due on Thursday, a source said.
TEHRAN, Jul 26- An Iranian lawmaker reiterated that the country’s oil tanker captured by British forces in Gibraltar earlier this month will be released soon.
TEHRAN, Jul 26 - Ukraine captured a tanker belonging to Russia, saying that it was behind seizure of three Ukrainian ships and their crews near annexed Crimea last year.
TEHRAN, Jul 25 -Iran has defended its move in capturing a British tanker in the Persian Gulf, saying that the vessel was impounded after it breached international law by attempting to flee the scene of a dangerous collision with an Iranian boat.
TEHRAN, Jul 22 - Oil prices rose on Monday on concerns that Iran’s seizure of a British tanker last week may lead to supply disruptions in the energy-rich Gulf.
TEHRAN, Jul 22 - Panama's maritime authority has confirmed that a tanker operating under the country's flag and seized by Iran in the Persian Gulf last week for smuggling fuel, was indeed in violation of international laws.
TEHRAN, Jul 20 - The detention of a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz is being widely described by the British media as a tit for tat action by Iran in response to Britain’s seizure of the Grace1 super- tanker off the Spanish coast of Gibraltar earlier this month.
TEHRAN, Jul 17 -An Israeli group with links to the regime’s secret service Mossad is seeking to seize an Iranian oil tanker and its cargo held by British troops off Gibraltar.
TEHRAN, Jul 16 -The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the country’s naval forces have assisted a foreign crude oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, after they received a request for help from the vessel.
TEHRAN, Jul 9 - Iran’s Judiciary Chief Hojatoleslam Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi took a swipe at the UK government for its unlawful move to capture an Iranian oil tanker in the international waters.
TEHRAN, Jul 8 -Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says recent seizure of a tanker carrying Iranian oil by British forces off the coast of Gibraltar is “pure and simple” piracy on behalf of the B-Team.
TEHRAN, Jul 2 - An explosion at an LPG tanker killed one Italian crew member and injured 15 others at the port of Aliaga in Turkey's western Izmir province late on Monday, petrochemicals maker Petkim said.
TEHRAN, May 29 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly rejected the allegations raised by the US national security adviser that Tehran has been involved in recent attacks on oil tanker s at the Emirati port of Fujairah.
TEHRAN, Jan 26 -Boeing delivered the first two next-generation KC-46 tanker planes to the U.S. Air Force, before the planes took off Friday to their first operating base.
TEHRAN, Jan 8 - At least one person was killed after an oil tanker caught fire due to a blast off the coast of Lamma Island in China’s Hong Kong Tuesday, with a rescue operation for 21 other crewmen underway, the South China Morning Post newspaper reported, citing police.
TEHRAN, July 16 -The KC-46 Pegasus has successfully completed its final flight tests, setting the stage for delivery of the first aircraft to the U.S. Air Force in late October.
TEHRAN, February 4 -A tanker with 22 Indian crew members on board has gone missing off West Africa, in waters plagued by piracy, officials said Sunday.
TEHRAN, January 25 - The maritime authorities of China, Iran, Panama, and Hong Kong signed an agreement on Thursday to launch a joint probe into a recent collision in the East China Sea that started an inferno in an Iranian oil tanker and led to its sinking after burning for eight days.
TEHRAN, January 20 - An oil slick and possible oil leak from an Iranian oil tanker that sank in flames off China’s east coast is raising fears of damage to marine wildlife but an expert says those concerns are misplaced.