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Key Iranian security officials Abdolrahim Mousavi, Aziz Nasirzadeh, Mohammad Pakpour and Ali Shamkhani are confirmed killed after an airstrike during a meeting yesterday in Tehran.
2026-03-1

Iran launches ballistic missiles at a United States Navy facility in Bahrain, targeting the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Iranian drones strike residential areas of Manama. The Bahraini interior ministry urges citizens and residents to seek nearest safe locations.
2026-02-28

Israel launches an attack on Iran, calling it a preemptive strike, killing several Iranian high-ranking officials including supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
2026-02-28

The United States takes part in the attack on Iran with president Trump announcing a "major U.S. combat operation" targeting Iranian missile facilities and naval assets, and calls on the Iranian military to overthrow Khamenei.
2026-02-28

Iran partially closes the Strait of Hormuz for several hours due to military exercises and warns the United States to avoid a military escalation.
2026-02-17

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy seizes two foreign oil tankers allegedly smuggling fuel in the Persian Gulf. Fifteen crew members onboard both tankers are taken into custody.
2026-02-5

Several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy gunboats attempt to stop and seize a U.S. tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The tanker ignored the demands to stop and continued on its journey towards the Arabian Sea under escort of a United States Navy warship.
2026-02-3

Iranian state media reports that the United States Navy attempted to capture an Iranian oil tanker. The oil tanker was boarded, commandeered and then returned by Iranian NEDSA marines in a helicopter operation. U.S. officials refute the report, saying that the Iranians had captured a Vietnamese flagged tanker and that U.S. forces were monitoring the situation.
2021-11-3

Iran's Navy of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution intercepts the Marshall Islands-flagged commercial cargo vessel "Maersk Tigris" in the Strait of Hormuz and diverts it further into Iranian waters. The US dispatches Farragut 6, an Arleigh Burke, to the location of the cargo vessel to observe and monitor the situation.
2015-04-28

The U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln 2, accompanied by the cruiser Cape St. George 2 and the destroyer Sterett 2, sails through the Strait of Hormuz, close to the coast of Iran, for the second time in recent weeks.
2012-02-14