
Saudi Arabia’s move to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization is a bid to deflect the attention of the international community away from the Khashoggi affair, Esmaeil Kosari, the deputy head of the IRGC’s Sarallah Headquarters, said on Wednesday. “Saudi Arabia is stuck in a ...

The incident came after Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri pledged in late August that the ships of “hostile countries” will be confronted when crossing through the Strait of Hormuz. Three Iranian fast attack boats confronted a UK Royal Navy destroyer as she was escorting a ...