A Bahraini court has handed down 10-year-jail sentences to 12 people in separate cases for expressing support for Iran’s retaliatory attacks.

Iran receives the first tranche of approximately $3 billion in its foreign-exchange assets as part of a financial arrangement with the UAE, according to a report.

Senior national security officials from the UAE and Iran reportedly hold a “face-to-face meeting” for the first time since the illegal US-Israeli war of aggression against the Islamic Republic. 

Iran’s PGSA says the Strait of Hormuz is closed until further notice due to tensions caused by US forces in the region.

Limited transit through the Strait of Hormuz and physical damage as a result of US aggression against Iran have dealt severe economic blows to the oil and non-oil sectors of the Persian Gulf countries, an economist says.

The US State Department has approved a potential $2 billion sale of counter-drone defence systems and related equipment to Kuwait.

Kuwaiti authorities have imprisoned a TV presenter for three years over her support for Iran amid the US-Israeli war of aggression against the Islamic Republic.