Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021 04:54 PM MYT
A handout photo made available by the Iranian Army office January 6, 2021, shows the launching of a drone carrying a missile, during a military drill at an undisclosed location in central Iran. Iranian Army Office handout pic via AFP
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DUBAI, Jan 13 Iran’s military launched a short-range naval missile drill today, Iranian state TV reported, at a time of high tension between arch foes Tehran and Washington.
Iran has one of the biggest missile programmes in the Middle East, regarding such weapons as an important deterrent and retaliatory force against US and other adversaries in the event of war.
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The Gulf States’ silence is the latest example of a geopolitics and economics-driven refusal to speak out on repression of or discrimination against Muslims in various parts of the world, including China’s north-western province of Xinjiang and India.
Silent about rising sectarian violence in Pakistan, Gulf States vying for religious soft power risk exposing the limitations of their concepts of an undefined ‘moderate’ Islam that is tolerant and endorses pluralism.
Countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have so far turned a blind eye to mounting sectarian sentiment in Karachi and Punjab province against Shiites and Ahmadis, sects viewed as heretics by conservative Sunni Muslims.
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In a Naval piracy act Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps seized in the Gulf Water a South Korean-flagged tanker HANKUK CHEMI, which was carrying 7,200 tonnes of ethanol.
DUBAI/SEOUL -Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps seized a South Korean-flagged tanker in Gulf waters and detained its crew, Iranian media said on Monday, amid tensions between Tehran and Seoul over Iranian funds frozen in South Korean banks due to U.S. sanctions.
Seoul confirmed the seizure of a South Korean chemical tanker by Iranian authorities in the waters off Oman, and demanded its immediate release.
Several Iranian media outlets, including state TV, said the Guards navy captured the vessel for polluting the Gulf with chemicals.