The US has imposed further sanctions aimed at shipping operations linked to Houthi and Hezbollah trade networks. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it targeted several companies, individuals and vessels accused of being involved in the shipment of...
https://splash247.com/us-targets-houthi-and-hezbollah-linked-shipping-network/
Aug 9 (Reuters) – The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on Friday that its navy has new cruise missiles equipped with highly explosive warheads that are undetectable, state media reported. The announcement by the country’s most powerful security…
https://gcaptain.com/iranian-guards-navy-gets-highly-capable-new-missiles/
LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Iran has sent small shipments of crude oil to new destinations such as Bangladesh and Oman, according to shipping sources and data, the latest sign of Tehran pushing…
https://gcaptain.com/irans-oil-finds-new-destinations-in-tehran-export-push/
The three remaining Filipino seafarers from the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, which was seized by Iranian authorities in April while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, have safely returned to the Philippines,…
https://gcaptain.com/filipino-seafarers-from-seized-msc-aries-return-home/
DUBAI, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards are likely to play a central role if the country retaliates for the assassination of its close ally Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week….
https://gcaptain.com/irans-revolutionary-guards-powerful-group-with-wide-regional-reach/
West Coast carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is setting sail to the Middle East from the Pacific to relieve the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and its strike group. Meanwhile, the Navy is sending additional ships to the region following threats from Iran, Pentagon officials announced on Friday evening.
“To maintain a carrier strike group presence in the Middle East, the Secretary has...
By Ethan Bronner (Bloomberg) — Within seven hours overnight, Israel targeted top leaders of Hezbollah in Beirut and Hamas in Tehran in a show of its willingness to risk retaliation and…
https://gcaptain.com/israels-twin-strikes-in-tehran-beirut-ratchet-up-tensions/
ATHENS, July 25 (Reuters) – Iran has released the oil cargo of a Greek-owned, Marshall-Islands-flagged tanker it seized in the Gulf of Oman earlier this year, a shipping source told Reuters on Thursday. The…
https://gcaptain.com/iran-releases-oil-from-seized-tanker-st-nikolas/
DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have intercepted a Togo-flagged, UAE-managed products tanker carrying 1,500 tons of marine gas oil, British security firm Ambrey said on Monday….
https://gcaptain.com/iran-seizes-togo-flagged-products-tanker-in-persian-gulf/
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized a product tanker after it left the Khor Al Zubair port in Iraq loaded with 1,500 tonnes of gas oil. Splash has received information that the tanker in question is the Togo-flagged Betelgeuse. The vessel is owned by the Marshall Islands-based...