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Iran fires ballistic missile 1,000km in provocative test amid tanker row with US and UK

July 26, 2019

Source: Iran fires ballistic missile 1,000km in provocative test amid tanker row with US and UK – The Sun

IRAN has reportedly test fired a ballistic missile amid escalating tensions with the US and UK in the Gulf.

The Shahab-3 missile travelled 1,000km, but did not pose a threat to shipping or US bases, according to a Pentagon official.

Iran Revolutionary Guards fire a Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missile in 2006 (file) — Iran Revolutionary Guards fire a Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missile in 2006 (file)Credit: AFP

Iran is believed to have tested the medium-range missile on Wednesday in a bid to improve the “range and accuracy” of its weapons.

News of the provocation emerged after Boris Johnson ordered the Royal Navy to accompany all British-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

This ramping up of the navy’s protection mission by the new PM comes in the wake of Iran seizing Brit tanker the Stena Impero.

It marks a dramatic escalation of the crisis with Iran following weeks of heightened tensions in the region.

HMS Montrose is patrolling in the Gulf and is to step up protection of UK shipping — HMS Montrose is patrolling in the Gulf and is to step up protection of UK shippingCredit: Reuters

A woman and boy walk past Shahab-2 (L) and Shahab-3 missiles on display in Tehran in 2008 (file) — A woman and boy walk past Shahab-2 (L) and Shahab-3 missiles on display in Tehran in 2008 (file)Credit: AFP – Getty

Tensions soared following Donald Trump’s decision last year to withdraw from the nuclear deal and impose maximal sanctions on Iran.

In the past few weeks, Iran has shot down a US spy drone and six oil tankers have been sabotaged near the strait.

The US has downed at least one Iranian drone after the USS Boxer took “defensive action” last Thursday – and a second Iranian drone may have been destroyed.

Iran possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the Middle East, according to the CSIS missile defence project.

IRAN’S MISSILE ARSENAL

While Iran has not yet tested or deployed a missile capable of striking the US, it continues to hone longer-range missile technologies.

The country has short and medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles capable of striking as far as Israel and southeast Europe.

Iran has also become a centre for missile proliferation, supplying proxies such as Hezbollah and Syria’s al-Assad regime with a steady supply of missiles and rockets.

According to the Military Balance, Iran has 32 batteries of Russian-made S-300 ground-to-air missiles that have been delivered by Moscow since 2016.

They are seen as posing a serious threat.

The Islamic Republic has also developed Iranian versions of these missile systems, including the Bavar 373, SAM Tabas and SAM Raad which are regularly displayed at military parades.

The Revolutionary Guards claim that they shot down the US drone with a Khordad 3 missile, a version of the SAM Raad.

Iran possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the Middle East, according to the CSIS missile defence project — Iran possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the Middle East, according to the CSIS missile defence project

READY TO BLOW Iran’s nuke program

IRAN’S nuclear capabilities have been the subject of concern and debate for more than two decades.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has repeatedly denied Iran is building a bomb and says weapons of mass destruction are forbidden under Islam.

But its enrichment of uranium and history of deception created deep mistrust.

After more than two years of negotiations and threats to bomb the country’s facilities, Iran and world powers agreed in 2015 to settle the dispute.

The deal set limits on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear work in exchange for relief from economic sanctions that had crimped oil exports and hobbled its economy.

Then in May 2018, Donald Trump announced the US was abandoning the pact negotiated under his predecessor and would reinstate sanctions.

Little more than a year later, Iran responded by violating its limits on uranium enrichment.

A think tank believes Tehran’s nuke scientists are ready to massively step up uranium enrichment at the heavily-fortified Fordow Plant.

Iran's nuclear enrichment site at Fordow has two rings of steel around it, and is buried deep within a rural mountain for protection — Iran’s nuclear enrichment site at Fordow has two rings of steel around it, and is buried deep within a rural mountain for protection

BOJO’S PROTECTION PLAN

The navy currently has HMS Montrose deployed in the Strait of Hormuz and it has reportedly already carried out the first escort under the new protection plan.

Another surface ship, HMS Duncan, a nuclear powered submarine and Royal Marine Commandos could also be sent to bolster the UK presence.

“The Royal Navy has been tasked to accompany British-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz, either individually or in groups, should sufficient notice be given of their passage,” said a government spokesman.

“Freedom of navigation is crucial for the global trading system and world economy, and we will do all we can to defend it.”

The move came just hours after new Prime Minister Boris Johnson took office.

Mr Johnson is close to Donald Trump, who has deployed a large military presence in the Gulf in response to what the US said were Iranian threats.

The current tension between Iran and the UK began when Royal Marines seized an Iranian tanker at the request of the US.

The Grace 1 is currently detained in Gibraltar amid suspicion it was taking oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.

CONVOYS

Under the new Royal Navy escort mission, UK-flagged ships have been told to give the Department of Transport sufficient notice of their travel plans in the area, Sky News reports.

Ships might be grouped together in convoys or accompanied individually depending upon how many are travelling on a given day, according to sources.

Britain has been seeking to put together a European-led maritime protection mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

On Friday, the Revolutionary Guard launched a gunboat and helicopter raid on Stena Impero, which is registered in the UK, claiming it had turned off its tracker and ignored warnings.

Iran’s seizure of the tanker was described as an “state piracy” by the government.

Another vessel, the Mesdar, was also intercepted and forced towards Iranian territory in what appeared to be a co-ordinated strike.

State TV footage shows Iranian armed forces on board the Stena Impero after it was seized in the Strait of Hormuz.

The clip is thought to have been filmed in the southern port of Bandar Abbas, where jet boats have been sailing around the British ship.

‘STATE PIRACY’

Iranian special forces stormed the ship by abseiling down from a helicopter.

Startling images have emerged of the ship being circled by a military speedboat.

Britain has demanded Iran release the tanker and in response the Islamic Republic has offered to swap the vessel for the Grace 1.

Iran had warned the UK that the seizure would not go “unanswered” and has also issued a chilling warning that it was using drones to track every ship in the Gulf.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, has insisted his country doesn’t want confrontation.

“It is very important for Boris Johnson as he enters 10 Downing Street to understand that Iran does not seek confrontation, that Iran wants normal relations based on mutual respect,” he said.

Fears have recently been raised that the Royal Navy lacks the strength to conduct missions to protect UK shipping.

Since the Falklands War, the navy has dropped from 80 vessels to 50 but with ten of those currently out of action for maintenance.

The Iranian flag was hoisted over seized British tanker Stena Impero — The Iranian flag was hoisted over seized British tanker Stena ImperoCredit: PressTV

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard jet boat sails around the seized British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in Bandar Abbas — An Iranian Revolutionary Guard jet boat sails around the seized British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in Bandar AbbasCredit: EPA

Hatching plan . . at 4pm, IRG special forces on board a chopper inspect the Stena Impero, en route to Saudia Arabia with its 23 crew — Hatching plan . . at 4pm, IRG special forces on board a chopper inspect the Stena Impero, en route to Saudia Arabia with its 23 crew

The armed troops prime their weapons and make final checks as they prepare to storm the British oil tanker below — The armed troops prime their weapons and make final checks as they prepare to storm the British oil tanker below

Soldiers abseil from a hovering helicopter while gunboats surrounding the Impero force it north towards Bandar Abbas — Soldiers abseil from a hovering helicopter while gunboats surrounding the Impero force it north towards Bandar AbbasCredit: AFP or licensors

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Iran offers to return to nuclear deal even if U.S. doesn’t

July 25, 2019

Source: Iran offers to return to nuclear deal even if U.S. doesn’t – Middle East – Jerusalem Post

In Rouhani’s alternative plan, Tehran would still expect sanctions on its oil exports and international banking to be revised.

JULY 25, 2019 12:12

Hassan Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani. (photo credit: STEPHANIE KEITH/REUTERS)

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has told French President Emmanuel Macron that the Islamic republic is ready to return to its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal if the US dials back sanctions, even without returning to the JCPOA deal, Radio Farda reported on Thursday.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi conveyed the offer from Rouhani to Macron in Paris as an alternative to the “freeze-for-freeze” plan proposed by the French president. In Macron’s plan, Iran would stop increasing its nuclear activities and the US would hold sanctions at the current level to allow for dialogue to resume, according to Politico.

In Rouhani’s alternative plan, Iran would not demand that the US return to the JCPOA, but would expect sanctions on Iran’s oil exports and international banking to be revised. In return, the Islamic republic would stop reducing its commitments to the nuclear deal, including exceeding the 3.67% uranium enrichment limit.

“If European countries stop wrong measures such as detaining an Iranian oil tanker at Gibraltar, they will see an appropriate response from Tehran,” said Rouhani on Wednesday, referencing the seizure of the Iranian Grace 1 oil tanker.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed on Wednesday that the UK had sent a mediator to Iran to free the British-flagged Stena Impero oil tanker that was seized by IRGC forces last week. Britain denied the report.

In a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Rouhani said that Iran and other Gulf countries are in charge of maritime safety in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. “The Strait of Hormuz is no place for joking or playing with international regulations,” said Rouhani.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced on Monday that the UK will also form a European-led maritime protection mission to support safe passage of both crew and cargo in the region. Discussions will be held later this week concerning how to best complement the plan with a recent US proposal for an international maritime coalition in the area.

The foreign secretary emphasized that the mission would be focused on “free navigation,” and would not be part of the “US maximum pressure policy on Iran,” as Britain is still committed to preserving the nuclear deal with Tehran.

“We have taken every available opportunity to reduce misunderstanding whilst standing by our rock-solid commitment to the international rule of law, which is the foundation of global peace and prosperity – but we must also react to the world around us as it is, and not how we would wish it to be,” said the foreign secretary in the House of Commons.

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IDF on high alert along northern border following Syria strikes

July 25, 2019

Source: IDF on high alert along northern border following Syria strikes – www.israelhayom.com

Israel keeping close tabs on developments in Syria after reports that Druze Hezbollah operative was assassinated in Quneitra.

by Daniel Siryoti , Lilach Shoval

Published on 2019-07-25 09:45

Last modified: 2019-07-25 09:45

IDF on high alert along northern border following Syria strikes

An IDF tank conducts maneuvers on the Golan Heights | Photo: Ancho Gosh / JINI

IDF forces deployed along the nation’s northern border were on high alert Thursday following airstrikes in southern Syria overnight Tuesday.

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IDF on high alert along northern border following Syria strikes

July 25, 2019

Source: IDF on high alert along northern border following Syria strikes – www.israelhayom.com

Israel keeping close tabs on developments in Syria after reports that Druze Hezbollah operative was assassinated in Quneitra.

by Daniel Siryoti , Lilach Shoval

Published on 2019-07-25 09:45

Last modified: 2019-07-25 09:45

IDF on high alert along northern border following Syria strikes

An IDF tank conducts maneuvers on the Golan Heights | Photo: Ancho Gosh / JINI

IDF forces deployed along the nation’s northern border were on high alert Thursday following airstrikes in southern Syria overnight Tuesday.

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Top Khamenei aide: No talks with US under any circumstances

July 25, 2019

Source: Top Khamenei aide: No talks with US under any circumstances – www.israelhayom.com

Remarks by Hossein Dehghan reflect a toughened Iranian stance to Western proposals to bolster security in the Strait of Hormuz after Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker last week.

by Reuters , Israel Hayom Staff

Published on 2019-07-25 07:26

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Top Khamenei aide: No talks with US under any circumstances

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Photo: Official Khamenei website via Reuters

The top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Tehran would not negotiate with the United States under any circumstances, an apparent hardening of its position as the Gulf tanker crisis escalates.

The Swedish operator of a British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran in the Gulf last week said it had been able to speak to crew members and all 23 of them were safe.

“We had direct contact with the crew on board the vessel last night by telephone and they’re all okay and in good health and they’re getting good cooperation with the Iranians on board,” Stena Bulk spokesman Pat Adamson said.

The company said it had no evidence that the ship had been involved in a collision, one of the reasons Iran has cited for sending commandos to capture it last Friday.

Video: Reuters

The tough remarks by Khamenei’s aide, Hossein Dehghan, a senior commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards whose views are seen as reflecting those of Khamenei, appeared to take a firm line in response to Western proposals to beef up security in the Strait of Hormuz in the wake of the seizure of the ship.

Dehghan said Iran would take action if the status of the strait were altered, and that no country would be allowed to ship oil through it unless all countries can.

His remarks were reported by Al Jazeera television which did not supply direct quotes of an interview with him. He singled out the United Arab Emirates for criticism, saying it had become a base for attacks on Iran, and repeated earlier Iranian threats to attack all US targets in the region in the event of war.

Dehghan’s remarks appear to shift the Iranian position on talks with the United States. In the past Tehran has said talks are possible although Washington must lift all sanctions first and return to the nuclear deal it abandoned last year.

The Trump administration says the purpose of its sanctions is to force Iran to the negotiating table, and it is open to talks, but Iran must make the first move.

Earlier on Wednesday, Iran’s pragmatist president, Hassan Rouhani, who has drawn fire from hardline clerical leaders for reaching the nuclear pact with world powers in 2015, said Iran was ready for “just negotiations” but not if they mean surrender.

Britain has called for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the world’s most important oil artery after Iran seized the Stena Impero last week. The United States is trying to rally support for a global coalition to secure Gulf waters, although allies have been reluctant to join a US-led mission for fear of escalating confrontation.

France, Italy and Denmark gave initial support to the British plan. A German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Berlin was talking to Britain and France about the idea.

The Trump administration abandoned the nuclear deal last year arguing that it was too weak because it did not cover non-nuclear issues such as Iran’s missile program and its regional behavior. Dehghan repeated Iranian assertions that its missile program is non-negotiable.

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Off Topic: ‘Red Sea Diving Resort’ recounts an unreal Jewish refugee rescue story

July 25, 2019

Source: ‘Red Sea Diving Resort’ recounts an unreal Jewish refugee rescue story | Datebook

( On Netflix July 31… – JW )

The film, starring Chris Evans, shows how Israeli spies used a fake tourist trap to smuggle Ethiopian Jews out of Sudan

The San Francisco portion of the Bay Area-wide San Francisco Jewish Film Festival closes Sunday, July 28, at the Castro Theatre with a screening of “The Red Sea Diving Resort” starring Michael Kenneth Williams and Chris Evans.Photo: Marcos Cruz, Netflix

Gideon Raff remembers being in Croatia in 2014 filming his USA network archaeology-mystery series “Dig” when he got a call from a film producer with a promising movie idea. “He asked me, ‘Have you ever heard of the hotel that was used by the Mossad to get Ethiopian Jews out of Sudan?’ ”

Raff is the Israeli writer-director best known for creating “Prisoners of War,” the hit Israeli television series that was the framework for Showtime’s “Homeland” series, which he co-created. He’s also a former paratrooper in the Israeli military and a screenwriter who’s been drawn repeatedly to the subject of espionage and international intrigue. So Raff, 46, knows a great deal about the famously bold and fiercely secretive operations of Israel’s intelligence service.

But this question about a Sudanese hotel and Mossad was a mystery to him.

“I had heard about Mossad’s bigger, more famous operations, such as the emergency airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (in 1991), but I had never heard of this mission in Sudan, which was earlier and even more secret,” said Raff, who now lives in Los Angeles. “Once I heard the basic details of how they pulled it off, I realized this is so crazy that if I just made it up, somebody would say, ‘No way, it’s not realistic.’ But because it happened in real life, it was too cool not to tell.”

The “very cool, stranger-than-fiction” rescue mission became the subject of Raff’s new thriller, “The Red Sea Diving Resort.” It will screen at the Castro Theatre on Sunday, July 28, as the closing night film of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival before being released globally via Netflix on July 31.

The intricately plotted film recreates the audacious scheme in the early 1980s (code-named “Operation Brothers”) by which Mossad agents purchased a deserted holiday retreat — a string of seaside bungalows once owned by an Italian hotelier, and situated on a pristine Sudanese beach near a prime diving reef on the Red Sea — to use as a front to ultimately smuggle thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

The refugees had already made the 500-mile trek to Sudan, fleeing civil war and famine in their home country, and were longing to fulfill a 2,700-year-old dream of getting to Jerusalem. (The film gives a concise history of the “Beta Israelis,” Jews of Ethiopia who claim their lineage dates to the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon; they were officially granted inclusion in Israel’s official “Law of Return” in 1977.)

Brought to the beachfront resort at night, the Ethiopians were helped onto rafts in darkness and met at sea by the Israeli navy to transport them during the three-day journey across the Red Sea to Sinai.

Raff’s “Homeland” bona fides helped him land an A-list cast: Chris Evans, “Captain America” himself, plays Ari Levinson, the idealistic Mossad spy who was the mastermind behind the mission; Alessandro Nivola (“Disobedience”) as his medically trained Mossad comrade, Michael K. Williams (Omar from “The Wire” ) as the courageous local Ethiopian community leader who shepherds the refugees to the resort under the constant threat of them being caught by Sudanese rebels; and Ben Kingsley as the Mossad leader who authorizes the mission. Greg Kinnear plays the American CIA analyst who suspects what the Israelis are up to and winds up lending American air support to the mission.

While interviewing the spies who led the missions and the Ethiopians they helped shepherd to safety, Raff heard enough to make the film’s you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me details jump to life, starting with the outlandish fact that the agents legitimized their operation by distributing colorful brochures advertising their fake resort to European travel agents.

Michiel Huisman (left), Michael Kenneth Williams, Haley Bennett and Chris Evans in “Red Sea Diving Resort.”Photo: Marcos Cruz, Netflix

“Real tourists were the best cover they could ask for,” said Raff, who shot most of the film in South Africa and re-created the hotel in Namibia. So when busloads of German and Japanese travelers showed up, the Mossad’s trained assassins took on the nitty-gritty demands of actually running the hotel — leading dive expeditions and exercise classes on the beach — and they hired a staff of Sudanese workers to cook and clean, “further blurring the line between fact and fiction,” Raff said.

“Red Sea Diving Resort” shows the Mossad going to unimaginably risky lengths in Sudan (a Muslim country and adversary of Israel) out of a sense of obligation to help their fellow Jews on another continent. Yet, Raff said he feels strongly about emphasizing their mission’s more universal, humanitarian impulse as well.

“This is a very Jewish story of Jews helping Jews, and yet when I met with everyone involved, I realized how relevant their story is today. They displayed the heroism and courage we need right now when there are 65 million displaced people in the world who are looking for a better future.

“The movie’s not about one policy or politics at all. It’s about humanism. It’s about people coming together and thinking, Hey, we can do something to make the world better. It might sound absolutely outlandish on paper, but we can still try and it just might work.”

“The Red Sea Diving Resort”: Writer-director Gideon Raff scheduled to attend as part of the 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. 7:15 p.m. Sunday, July 28. $25. Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., S.F. jfi.org/sfjff-2019

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The IDF’s Newest Class of the Elite Submarine Unit

July 25, 2019

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Syrian TV reports Israeli attack on targets in country’s south

July 24, 2019

Source: Syrian TV reports Israeli attack on targets in country’s south – www.israelhayom.com

Syria claims air-defense systems activated against Israeli strike on Tal al-Hara, strategic hill south of Damascus, where Hezbollah, Revolutionary Guard forces are stationed. According to Arab media reports, military base was completely decimated in attack.

by Daniel Siryoti , News Agencies , Israel Hayom Staff

Published on 2019-07-24 08:16

Last modified: 2019-07-24 08:45

Syrian TV reports Israeli attack on targets in country's south

A previous strike in Syria attributed to Israel

Syrian state television said on Wednesday that Israel struck a strategic area in southern Syria overlooking the Golan Heights where Western intelligence sources previously said Iranian-backed militias are known to be based.

The newsflash on state-owned Ikhbariyah did not give details, but said the strike, involving surface-to-surface missiles began at 12:40 a.m. and was directed on Tal al-Hara, a strategic hill south of Damascus that had long been an outpost for Russian forces but was later taken by Iranian-backed militias, according to Western intelligence sources, and Quneitra province. The hill overlooks wide parts of southern Syria all the way to the Israeli Golan Heights.

According to the Syrian state news agency’s report, the country’s air-defense systems were activated against “hostile missiles” launched from the Israeli Golan Heights and Israeli aircraft west of Damascus. In addition, According to the report, two further explosions were heard around 1:00 a.m., one in the Quneitra area and a second in Tal al-Hara, adjacent to Quneitra.

According to state news agency SANA, damages were only material.

However, according to Arab media reports, the brunt of the attack as directed at an Iranian base where Hezbollah and members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are stationed.

Syrian officials were quoted in the Arab media reports as saying the attack decimated the base, and that there were many wounded and killed.

According to reports in Syria, a number of sites incurred major damage in the attacks, and there were casualties, although the number of those killed and wounded remained unclear.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the attack was directed, among other targets, against weapons storage sites used by Hezbollah and other pro-Iranian militias in Syria’s and housing long-range missiles and other weaponry. It was further reported that one of the missiles had exploded inside a base in western Damascus where large forces of pro-Iranian militias in Syria were stationed.

The zone has been a target of Israeli raids against Tehran-backed militias which have become entrenched in southern Syria and the Golan Heights near the border with Israel.

State news agency SANA later referred to the last Israeli attacks at the end of last month when it said its air defenses repelled a major attack on some of its outposts on the outskirts of the capital and Homs province.

Diplomatic sources familiar with Syria said at the time these overnight attacks outside Damascus on Iranian-backed forces, including bases of Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group, were among the largest strikes attributed to Israel in recent years.

They came only days after the national security advisers of Israel, the United States and Russia met in Israel, with Washington and Jerusalem demanding that Moscow ensure the withdrawal of Iran’s forces from the region, according to intelligence sources.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed after the trilateral meeting to continue to act against Iranian entrenchment in Syria.

The media gave no further details about the early Wednesday attack that came a month after Israel targeted the same area. In that instance, Syria said its air defenses repelled a major attack on some of its outposts on the outskirts of the capital and Homs province.

In recent years, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria that it says have targeted its regional archrival, Iran, as well as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which it calls the biggest threat to its borders.

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Iran vows to secure Strait of Hormuz, urges diplomacy

July 24, 2019

Source: Iran vows to secure Strait of Hormuz, urges diplomacy – www.israelhayom.com

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: Iran will use its best efforts to secure the region, particularly the Strait of Hormuz, and will not allow any disturbance in shipping in this sensitive area. Almost a fifth of the oil consumed globally passes through the strategic waterway in the Gulf.

by Reuters , Israel Hayom Staff

Published on 2019-07-24 09:45

Last modified: 2019-07-24 09:45

Iran vows to secure Strait of Hormuz, urges diplomacy

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi | Screenshot: Twitter

Iran will secure the Strait of Hormuz and not allow any disturbance in shipping in the key oil transport waterway, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday during a visit to Paris, the state news agency IRNA reported.

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Iran vows to secure Strait of Hormuz, urges diplomacy

July 24, 2019

Source: Iran vows to secure Strait of Hormuz, urges diplomacy – www.israelhayom.com

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: Iran will use its best efforts to secure the region, particularly the Strait of Hormuz, and will not allow any disturbance in shipping in this sensitive area. Almost a fifth of the oil consumed globally passes through the strategic waterway in the Gulf.

by Reuters , Israel Hayom Staff

Published on 2019-07-24 09:45

Last modified: 2019-07-24 09:45

Iran vows to secure Strait of Hormuz, urges diplomacy

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi | Screenshot: Twitter

Iran will secure the Strait of Hormuz and not allow any disturbance in shipping in the key oil transport waterway, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday during a visit to Paris, the state news agency IRNA reported.

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