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Tehran summoned the Austrian chargé d’affaires on Monday after Austria denied entry to Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, to attend an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting in Vienna. Iran’s Foreign Ministry described the visa decision as unjustified and accused the United States of pressuring the Austrian government.
Qeshm Island Governor said an Iranian commercial vessel was targeted early Sunday between Qeshm and Hengam islands, killing one person and injuring 3 others. The incident coincided with a British report that a vessel was hit by an unidentified projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, amid growing concerns over energy supplies.
Iranian state media reported that two explosions were heard from the sea near Qeshm Island in Hormozgan Province on Saturday evening, amid escalating confrontation between Iran and the United States and disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s main routes for energy supplies and trade.
Two explosions were heard on Iran’s southern Qeshm Island from the direction of the sea on Saturday evening, with no official explanation of their nature or causes. The sounds came after similar explosions that official sources in Hormozgan said resulted from air-defence systems activity, amid rising tensions and disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
Russia plans to increase the number of specialists working at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant to about 150, after staff evacuated by Rosatom following the outbreak of war in February began returning. The move comes as the Russian company continues a project to build two new nuclear units at the plant.
Iranian parliamentary bodies are examining a new draft to regulate cyberspace that would require digital service providers to verify users’ identities and children’s ages, and proposes fines and the suspension of violators’ licences. The draft remains under consideration and has not reached the parliament’s plenary session, while officials at the Communications Ministry have objected to legal and structural aspects of it.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted two US warships and two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz with ballistic missiles, claiming the warships were damaged. Washington denied that any of its naval vessels were hit, amid US reports of concerns that Tehran may possess missiles capable of maneuvering and tracking moving targets.
U.S. forces targeted three oil tankers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on September 5, 2026, in response to ballistic missile launches toward two U.S. warships. The strikes point to a U.S. effort to increase the economic cost of the maritime confrontation, amid risks to shipping and the environment in the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman.
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wiles said Washington is monitoring activity at Iranian nuclear facilities and that President Donald Trump will not allow Tehran to possess a nuclear weapon. The statement came as an analysis showed construction accelerated in 2026 at a hardened site near Natanz, without evidence that centrifuges had been moved there.
Images captured by the European Sentinel-2 satellite on 8 September 2026 showed traces of an oil slick extending from tankers anchored southeast of Kharg Island. The slick appeared days after the US Central Command announced targeting two oil tankers in the area, while the preliminary analysis does not conclusively establish the source of the spill.
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors voted to refer Iran’s nuclear file to the Security Council over what it described as Tehran’s failure to meet its obligations. Iran rejected the decision as politicised, while the referral could pave the way for further measures without automatically imposing new sanctions.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman Hossein Mohabi said ending the war with the United States requires an end to threats and the implementation of a set of conditions concerning Lebanon, Yemen, frozen Iranian assets, and nuclear and missile capabilities. At the same time, the Guard announced a new restricted zone extending from the area near Chabahar to parts of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.
The US Central Command said its forces destroyed five oil tankers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Gulf of Oman and near Kharg Island, following two missile attacks targeting a US warship over two days. It added that the tankers’ crews had left before the vessels were targeted, and that no Americans were injured.
U.S. Central Command said it had bombed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets near the Strait of Hormuz after what it described as attempts to target commercial vessels and U.S. troops. The escalation came as two oil tankers were hit by projectiles of unknown origin, while the European Union called for the strait to reopen without restrictions or conditions.
US President Donald Trump described Iran as a “failed state” and “dead,” claiming it had lost its military and economic capabilities and that inflation there had reached about 300%. In a post on Truth Social, he said Tehran no longer had a navy, air force or currency. The article did not include an Iranian response to his remarks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran had not decided to resume talks with Washington, and that messages exchanged through Qatar and Pakistan did not constitute negotiations, explaining that talks with Oman had addressed a maritime route through the Strait of Hormuz.
