Iran says tanker carrying LNG hit mine, suffered explosion in Hormuz
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\nThe Iranian Army announced on Friday that it shot down a US MQ-1 drone near Kuhestak, off the coast of Sirik in Hormozgan Province, according to Press TV.
\nEarlier in the year, the Iranian army destroyed and captured other US drones and autonomous sea vehicles.
\nDeputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mostafa Izadi warned on Friday that the Iranian armed forces would deliver an immediate, effective, and decisive response to any aggression, stressing that they face no geographical limits in confronting aggressors, according to IRNA.
\nSpeaking at a ceremony on Friday, IRNA reported that he said Iran had \u201cstood firm against a united Eastern and Western front\u201d during the \u201cwar imposed on Iran by the Iraqi Ba\u2019ath regime from 1980 to 1988 and in its aftermath\u201d.
\nHe said that Iran\u2019s adversaries\u2019 objectives included \u201cdisintegrating\u201d Iran, overthrowing current ruling powers, weakening the country\u2019s nuclear and missile capabilities and the \u201cresistance front\u201d, and taking its oil resources.
\nReferring to Iran\u2019s missile capabilities and its armed forces, Izadi said that the country was prepared with missiles, air defence, drones, and naval forces, adding that enemy bases on land and at sea have come under attack.<\/p>\n
Iran says tanker carrying LNG hit mine, suffered explosion in Hormuz
\nIran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards navy said a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas struck a naval mine and suffered an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday while using what they described was an \u201cunauthorised and dangerous route\u201d, state media reported.
\nNo details on the tanker were immediately available.
\nIranian media reported on Thursday that four oil tankers were hit by explosions in \u200bthe waterway vital for global shipping, adding that the vessels \u200chad ignored warnings and entered what it considers restricted areas of the strategic waterway.
\nTankers are still facing attacks across the strait, despite a rebound in traffic and expectations of a de-escalation in the US-Israeli war on Iran, that have been reflected in falling oil prices.
\nAt least 10 ships were hit in the first 10 days of November, after 37 attacks in October, which was the highest monthly tally \u200bsince the conflict began in late February, according to \u200bdata from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.<\/p>\n
IAEA increasingly concerned about Iranian enrichment plant, report says
\nThe UN nuclear watchdog is \u201cincreasingly concerned\u201d about an underground uranium-enrichment plant at Isfahan that Iran declared last year but has not let the watchdog inspect, it said in a confidential report on Iran on Friday seen by Reuters.
\n\u201cThe Agency does not know IFEP\u2019s exact location, status for safeguards purposes or whether it contains nuclear material,\u201d the International Atomic Energy Agency said in the quarterly report to member states, referring to the Isfahan Fuel Enrichment Plant.<\/p>\n
Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted drone over eastern Saudi Arabia
\nThe Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen\u2019s Houthis announced on Friday that it intercepted and destroyed a drone in eastern Saudi Arabia.
\n\u201cAir defences intercepted and destroyed a drone in the Eastern Province,\u201d coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki wrote on US social media platform X.
\nNo further details were immediately available about the drone or any damage.
\nThe incident comes amid escalating tensions between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, with the coalition reporting repeated interceptions of missiles and drones targeting the kingdom.
\nYemen has been mired in conflict since the Houthis seized Sanaa and other provinces in 2014, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene in support of the government in 2015.
\nA period of relative calm since April 2022 ended with renewed fighting in July, leaving 12,000 people dead or wounded, according to the UN.<\/p>\n
CENTCOM calls Israeli media report of possible Iran war resumption \u2018pure speculation\u2019
\nThe US military has denied an Israeli media report that it is preparing for a possible resumption of operations against Iran, dismissing claims of changes to its regional force posture as \u201cpure speculation.\u201d
\nResponding to Anadolu, a US Central Command (CENTCOM) official said there were no updates to the US force posture in the Middle East.
\nThe denial followed a report by the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, which cited a US official as saying that CENTCOM had urged Israel to prepare for a possible resumption of military operations against Iran in the near future. The warning was reportedly conveyed to Israeli military representatives in the United States.
\nKAN also reported that Washington was sending similar messages to Gulf countries through security channels.
\nThe report further claimed that the US had deployed around 200 aerial refuelling aircraft across the Middle East and Europe, with two aircraft carriers \u2014 the USS George Washington and USS George HW Bush \u2014 already in the region and a third, the USS Roosevelt, expected to arrive in the Arabian Sea next week.
\nIran\u2019s Guards say they targeted a US early-warning radar in Bahrain
\nIran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they targeted a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, the first such claim of an attack on American military assets in a Gulf country since early September.
\nThe Guards said the strike was in retaliation for what they described as an air attack on a telecommunications tower in Iran\u2019s southern Sirik county, in Hormozgan province, according to Iranian state media.
\nThe claim came amid a fragile lull in the conflict between Iran and the US, which began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 and has since spread across the region.
\nIran launched missile and drone attacks on US bases in Gulf states and sought to restrict shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global oil and gas supplies. Washington, in turn, imposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports.
\nThere was no immediate comment from the US or Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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