A mysterious explosion hit a Japanese oil tanker near Iran in the vital Strait of Hormuz early on Wednesday, spotlighting a potential threat in a chokepoint for global oil supplies. There were differing theories about the cause of the blast -- which did not cause any serious injuries or an oil spill -- ranging from a terrorist attack to an explosion of ...

Pakistan's ambassador to Iran left a Tehran hospital in good health on Wednesday, a day after he was injured in an apparent mugging attempt by an Afghan assailant, news agencies reported. "Mohammad Bakhsh Abbasi, Pakistan ambassador to Tehran who sustained a minor injury ... left the hospital moments ago," the official IRNA agency said during the afternoon. "He left the ...

Pakistan's ambassador to Tehran was injured and taken to hospital on Tuesday when he was attacked by an Afghan while taking a walk in the capital, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman told local media. "Today Pakistan's ambassador, as he was walking, was beaten up by an unarmed Afghan," spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in a statement carried by Fars ...

Drug traffickers have killed 11 policemen in eastern Iran, local police were quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Saturday. The confrontation occurred on Friday in a desert area of eastern Iran, which lies on a major narcotics route from neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan. "In clashes between police and a narcotics convoy headed from south to north ...