The chief justice of Iran’s Hormozgan Province says a recently seized tanker and its fuel cargo worth more than five million dollars will be transferred to government ownership.

Iran has seized a foreign-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on charges of smuggling six million liters of fuel, detaining 18 crew members, according to Iranian media reports.

An Iranian court has acquitted Lennart Monterlos, a German national with French citizenship, accused of espionage. 

Iran and Russia have signed a $25 billion agreement for the construction of four nuclear power plants as part of a long-term partnership deal aimed at consolidating ties between Tehran and Moscow in various fields.

The death toll from a massive explosion that rocked Iran’s southern Shahid Rajaee Port on Saturday has risen to 70, while more than 1,000 people have been injured

Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province announces three days of public mourning over a deadly blast at the port of Shahid Rajaee.

Shahid Rajaee Port, the largest port in Iran through which most of the international maritime trade takes place, was rocked by a massive explosion on Saturday.