Bahrain's top Shia Muslim cleric says no one can censure Iran for exercising its right to self-defense amid the US-Israeli war of aggression.

A Japanese analyst warns that the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz would trigger a severe economic crisis for major industrialized nations, underscoring Iran's growing strategic leverage.

Iran's UN envoy has called on the Security Council to hold several Persian Gulf Arab states and Jordan accountable for assisting the US and Israel in their aggression against the Islamic Republic.

The Egyptian presidency has pressed Al-Azhar, the leading authority in Sunni Islam, to publicly support the UAE in the US-Israeli “confrontation” with Iran, a report says.

Israeli false-flag drone attack on the UAE's Barakah nuclear plant aimed to frame Iran and trigger regional war, as Tehran had no motive to poison its own shores and only Israel benefited from such adventurism.

The Iranian authority controlling the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf defines the supervisory management zone of the waterway.

The spokesman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has warned the Persian Gulf Arab states that they have to expel the American troops stationed there before any aggressive US action against Iran.