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RFL/RE – London condemned Tehran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Persian Gulf and said it was operating legally in Omani territorial waters when it was seized by Iranian forces. The comments came on July 20 as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) released a video of its speedboats pulling alongside the oil tanker, followed by ski-mask clad troops …

VOA – Britain on Saturday denounced Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a “hostile act” and rejected Tehran’s explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards posted a video online showing speedboats pulling alongside the Stena Impero tanker, its name clearly visible. Troops wearing ski masks and carrying …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Three men were hanged for murder charges at the southern Iranian city of Minab last Sunday. According to IHR sources, on Sunday, June 14, three men were hanged at Minab prison for murder charges. IHR could identify them as Ali Karimi, Mohammad Parvaei and Amirali Shadabi.  “Amirali Shadabi killed a person during a gang fight. …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Although some of the groups involved have exclusively Iraqi roots, the “mobilization” as a whole could be regarded as Iran’s Trojan army in Iraq. From its first days, the Khomeinist regime in Tehran regarded most Arab nations as artificial states created by colonial powers around an army of natives they had created as a means of controlling the …

Shabtabnews – Iranians living in the United States gathered in front of the office of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) in Washington, D.C., on July 19. A statement read out by protesters at the event described the NIAC as “the representative of the corrupt and brutal Islamic Republic regime.” According to the statement, the protest was aimed at informing …