Iran charged Monday that the United States had detained its visiting volleyball team at a US airport for several hours. The foreign ministry’s director for North America told Swiss ambassador Markus Leitner, whose country represents US interests in Iran, that the team was detained for about four hours at an ...
Iran’s defense minister warned the UK to expect a reaction to its act of “maritime banditry” after the British navy seized an Iranian supertanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. In comments in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Monday, Brigadier General Amir Hatami denounced the seizure of Iranian ...