US Navy

The USS Abraham Lincoln sails south in the Suez canal near Ismailia toward the Persian Gulf, May 9, 2019. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

May 21, 2019, 9:01 pm

Pentagon: Iran threat ‘on hold’ thanks to US response

‘Our steps were very prudent,’ Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says of US deployment of ships, bombers to region amid intelligence warnings of Iranian attack plans

By AFP

The flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, on May 19, 2019. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Garrett LaBarge/US Navy via AP)

May 20, 2019, 8:39 pm

US aircraft carrier seen as barometer of tensions with Iran

Dispatched to the Persian Gulf, the USS Abraham Lincoln has yet to enter it, possibly in a bid to calm nerves in the region

By Jon Gambrell

In this undated photo released by Sepahnews, the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran (Sepahnews via AP)

May 15, 2019, 11:14 pm

Iran on the brink of ‘full-scale confrontation with the enemy,’ IRGC chief warns

Amid simmering tensions in Gulf, Hossein Salami says ‘this moment in history is the most decisive moment of the Islamic revolution’; Rouhani: US engaged in ‘crime against humanity’

By TOI staff and Agencies

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Iranian government officials in Tehran on May 14, 2019. (Khamenei's official website)

May 14, 2019, 9:49 pm

Iran’s supreme leader: There will not be a war with the US

Khamenei tells Iranian officials that Washington ‘will have to withdraw’ in standoff, adds there will be no nuclear talks with current US administration

By TOI staff and Agencies

In this September 24, 2017 file photo, surface-to-surface missiles and a portrait of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are displayed by the Revolutionary Guard. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

May 13, 2019, 3:02 am

Iran says US doesn’t dare attack for fear of provoking assault on Israel

Revolutionary Guards chiefs dismiss US ‘psychological war,’ say aircraft carrier deployed to region not a threat, but a target; ‘If they make a move, we will hit them in the head’

By TOI staff

The front cover of the May 11, 2019 edition of the Iranian weekly reformist magazine, Seda, center, is photographed along with other periodicals in Tehran, Iran, May 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

May 12, 2019, 4:26 pm

Iranian reformist magazine shuttered after urging talks with US

Seda weekly called for regime to engage diplomatically with Washington to defuse tensions and stave off risk of ‘widespread war’

By AP

Iranians visit a weaponry and military equipment exhibition in the capital Tehran on February 2, 2019, organized on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

May 12, 2019, 3:38 pm

Amid US-Iran tension, Israeli minister fears Tehran ‘may fire rockets at Israel’

‘Things are heating up,’ Yuval Steinitz warns as US aircraft carrier sails toward Persian Gulf; Iranian Guards chief dismisses US ‘psychological war’

By TOI staff

File: The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transits the Suez Canal, July 2012. (CC-BY Official US Navy Imagery/Flickr)

April 29, 2019, 1:29 pm

Iranian drone video of American aircraft carrier appears ‘years old’: US Navy

Military spokesperson dismisses footage published by Revolutionary Guards days after Washington branded it a terror organization

By AFP

Illustrative photo of the USS Enterprise, a US Navy aircraft carrier that was deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2012, before being decommissioned at the end of the year. (Official US Navy Imagery/flickr)

April 27, 2019, 7:09 pm

Iran says it made surveillance flight over US aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf

Development comes after US government designates Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist group

By AP and TOI staff

In this 2018 photograph released by lawyer Mark Zaid, Michael R. White, right, is seen with his mother, Joanne White, left. (White family via AP)

March 16, 2019, 10:58 pm

US Navy veteran held in Iran gets 10 years, lawyer says

Attorney for Michael White, convicted of insulting Iran’s supreme leader and posting private information online, says regime using client as leverage against Washington

By Jon Gambrell

An undated photo of US Navy veteran Michael White, who was arrested in Iran in July 2018 while visiting his girlfriend. (screen capture: NBC news)

January 9, 2019, 10:54 pm

Iran acknowledges arrest of US Navy veteran

Tehran says it informed Washington of Michael R. White’s detention in July when he was seized in city of Mashhad

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Iran's communications minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi speaks in a TV interview on August 13, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

January 5, 2019, 11:42 am

Tests concluded, Iran prepares for launching of satellites

Telecommunications minister says preparations have been successful ahead of planned launch criticized by Washington as violating Security Council resolution

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Iranian Navy exercise in 2011. (CC BY, Mohammad Sadegh Heydari, Wikimedia Commons)

January 4, 2019, 8:55 pm

Iran deploying warships to western Atlantic amid rising tensions with US

Islamic republic seeking to counter presence of US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf by sailing fleet near American waters

By TOI staff

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greet members of the US military during an unannounced trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on December 26, 2018. Posing for a photo with Trump is Lieutenant Commander Kyu Lee, who said he is the chaplain of Navy SEAL Team Five. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

December 28, 2018, 5:36 pm

Trump tweets video revealing secretive Navy Seal team in Iraq

Ex-naval intelligence specialist says US president’s apparent disclosure of soldiers’ identities could be a ‘propaganda boom’ if they were to fall captive

By AFP

Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, in the capital Tehran on September 22, 2018. (AFP/STR)

December 22, 2018, 10:30 am

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches drill near Strait of Hormuz

Paramilitary force answerable to Supreme Leader Khamenei begins annual combat helicopter and drone exercise day after US Navy carrier enters Persian Gulf

By Agencies