Sputnik - Earlier in the day, the United Arab Emirates stated that it would take part in a US-led maritime coalition that also includes Australia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom. Iraq's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmad al-Sahhaf stated Thursday that it would not join an international maritime mission to protect commercial shipping ...

Press TV - Following in the footsteps of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates has joined a US-led naval mission purportedly aimed at protecting shipping lanes in Middle Eastern waterways. The official Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported the UAEs decision to become a member of the so-called International Maritime Security Construct on Thursday,...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia has joined a US-led naval mission purportedly aimed at protecting shipping lanes in Middle Eastern waterways as Washington and Riyadh engage in another blame game against Iran following massive Yemeni drone attacks on key Saudi oil facilities. Quoting an official source in the Defense Ministry, the state-run Saudi Press Agency ...

MNA Hisae Nakanishi, a professor of International Relations of the Middle East at Doshisha University in Japan, believes that the United States move to form a maritime coalition in the Persian Gulf is unwise and even not feasible. The US hopes to encircle Iran by the cooperation with those states which the US considers its allies in the Middle ...

MNA Japan is considering sending a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer separately from the US-led coalition to the Persian Gulf and it will perform a mission in the Strait of Hormuz if Iran gives its consent, a Japanese newspaper reported. Japan will not join the United States in a security mission to protect merchant vessels passing through ...

MNA The security of the Persian Gulf region is provided in sustainable form only when solutions to the logic of play with zero algebraic output are put aside. Following recent unrest in the Persian Gulf, the United States, claiming to establish security in Strait of Hormuz (the largest oil artery in the Persian Gulf), has sought to establish a ...

MNA Commander of Army Air Defense Force Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard recommended policymakers of West Asian countries not to join the US-led coalition in the Persian Gulf. The security of the Persian Gulf and West Asia can only be ensured by the cooperation of regional states and any foreign presence or formation of coalitions,...

Press TV - A new poll shows that over half of voters oppose dispatching Japans Self-Defense Forces personnel to the Persian Gulf to join a US-led coalition in a purported mission of protecting maritime shipping lanes in the Middle East. According to the survey, 57.1 percent of voters said Japan should not send SDF forces to the Middle East, while ...

Al-Monitor - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had a hectic day Aug. 12, talking to heads of state in his country's vicinity and trying to elucidate what he views as security threats posed by a planned US-led mission in the Strait of Hormuz. The strategic maritime pathway letting through 20% of the world's oil traffic has been at the center of recent ...

Press TV - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned that any Israeli presence in the Persian Gulf may result in a war in the region, and the responsibility for the consequences of such illegal presence lies with the US and the UK. "The United States and the United Kingdom must assume responsibility for the Zionist regime's illegal presence ...

Press TV - Japanese government sources say Tokyo is not willing to join a US-led naval mission purportedly aimed at protecting shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf, but is mulling over sending ships off Yemen. The sources told Kyodo news agency that the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reluctant to participate in the US-led ...

MNA The Head of Iranian Army's Strategic Studies Center Brigadier General Pourdastan has said that only a few countries have agreed to the US attempt to form a so-called maritime coalition in the Persian Gulf. Speaking on the sidelines of the 20th nationwide annual meeting of the Union of Independent Islamic Associations of Students, Brigadier ...

Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has condemned the United States attempts to set up a military coalition in the Persian Gulf to counter what it calls the Iran threat, stressing that the presence of extra-regional military forces in the strategic region will act as a source of insecurity. Zarif, in a post published on his ...

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MNA Irans defense minister criticized the United States plan to create a military coalition under the pretext of safeguarding strategic waters in the Persian Gulf region, saying such a move would only contribute to undermining the regions security. Irans Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami, in separate phone conversations with his Qatari,...