Iran has designated Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as terrorist organisations, its Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday 1 November 2026, in a sharp escalation of tensions between Tehran and London.
Iranian negotiators met Qatari mediators in Doha on Saturday in a bid to head off a new outbreak of fighting in the Gulf, as regional diplomats brace for the possibility that the United States resumes strikes on Iran once Tuesday’s midterm elections are over.
A small boat attached two limpet mines to the Panama-flagged tanker Louise 1 in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, sparking an engine-room fire in the first successful attack of its kind since the war between the United States and Iran began in February.
