Iran’s Alborz warship has entered the Red Sea, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, at a time of soaring tensions on the key shipping route amid the Israel-Hamas war and attacks on vessels by forces allied to Tehran. Tasnim did not give details of the Alborz’s mission but said Iranian warships had … Read more
Iran has been dictating the tempo of the conflict against Israel for more than a year. It began in the fall of 2022 to heat up threats in the West Bank using Palestinian Islamic Jihad. After seeking to empower this proxy group and fill a vacuum left by the failure of the Palestinian Security … Read more
Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have stepped up attacks on vessels in the Red Sea to show their support for Palestinian Islamist group Hamas fighting Israel in Gaza. The attacks, aimed at a route that allows East-West trade, especially of oil, to use the Suez Canal to save the time and expense of circumnavigating … Read more
Two Houthi attacks on the Maersk Hangzhou commercial ship in the Red Sea between Saturday and Sunday represent a new escalation by the Iranian-backed Houthis. It also represents a forceful new approach by the US to stop small boats from trying to interdict the ship. It is important to note that the Danish company … Read more
The Gaza war is universally rejectedAl-Ahram, Egypt, December 19 In a time of crisis, both David Cameron, the British foreign secretary, and Annalena Baerbock, his German counterpart, have called for a two-state solution in the Middle East once the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip concludes. These ministers have expressed their deep distress over … Read more
The US military downed 12 kamikaze drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles, and two land attack cruise missiles fired by the Houthis in the southern Red Sea within a period of just 10 hours on Tuesday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced. The USS Laboon and F/A-18 Super Hornets from the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group intercepted … Read more
A drone was downed near the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Dahab on Tuesday, in the second such incident in a month, two security sources told Reuters. The security sources could not confirm the drone’s origin. Israel said in late October that Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi movement sent drones to strike its territory after … Read more
When Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and inflicted what is considered to be the Jewish state’s worst intelligence and military failure in recent years, Iran’s leadership celebrated the opening act of a wider regional conflict. As Israel’s archenemy, Iran has repeatedly called for the destruction of the Jewish state throughout the past decades … Read more
Arab opinions were divided between supporters and opponents of the “Operation Prosperity Guardian” coalition, which US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Tuesday from the capital of Bahrain, Manama. This naval alliance, whose aim is to ensure the safety of navigation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in response to international … Read more
Iran denied on Saturday US accusations that it was involved in planning attacks by Yemen’s Tehran-aligned Houthi movement on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. The repeated denial, issued by Iranian deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani, came after the White House said Tehran was “deeply involved” in … Read more
