And Dutch MEP Michiel Hoogeveen has warned the move risks damaging relations with Israel at a crucial time, with tensions already high in the wake of a drone attack on the Mercer Street oil tanker off the coast of Oman which claimed the lives of two people, including one UK citizen.... Mr Raisi has taken over from Hassan Rouhani, having been elected in highly controversial circumstances earlier this year amid suggestions by among others reformist candidate Mohsen Mehralizadeh that the result wa

Tehran has denied any involvement in the attack on Thursday in which two crew members-the Briton plus a Romanian-were killed.... The United States and Britain said on Sunday they would work with their allies to respond to the attack onMercer Street, a Liberian-flagged, Japanese-owned petroleum product tanker managed by Israeli-owned Zodiac Maritime. Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said:" Iran has no hesitation in protecting its security and national interests and will respond promp