Tag: Iran

Trump de-escalates Iran crisis after Tehran strikes cause ‘minimal damage’

Rob Crilly · January 8, 2020 6:39 pm

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., participates in a panel during a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, in Clive, Iowa.

Ilhan Omar accuses Trump of ‘economic warfare’ for threatening sanctions on Iran

John Gage · January 8, 2020 6:32 pm

A Sabre short-range ballistic missile launches in June 2017 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, for a test of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement, an advanced missile defense system. Hypersonic missiles might be able to penetrate PAC-3 and similar systems.

PHOTOS: First images of ‘dud’ Iranian missile in Erbil reveal impotent attack

Susan Katz Keating · January 8, 2020 6:32 pm

National security adviser Susan Rice speaks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

‘Despicable lies’: Susan Rice ridicules Trump claim that US paid for missiles fired from Iran

Mike Brest · January 8, 2020 6:27 pm

‘Peace through strength is working’: Crenshaw commends Trump for toning down rhetoric on Iran

Dominick Mastrangelo · January 8, 2020 6:15 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Trump gave a fine speech on Iran, but this isn’t the end

Eddie Scarry · January 8, 2020 5:33 pm

President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and others looks on.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s critics should emulate his tone in this morning’s Iran speech

Quin Hillyer · January 8, 2020 5:29 pm

Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, questions former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, as they testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.

‘It was a good decision’: GOP Trump critic praises Soleimani killing

Spencer Neale · January 8, 2020 5:25 pm

President Donald Trump addresses the Economic Club of New York Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, in New York.

‘Those days are over’: Trump vows to end Iranian influence around the world

Dominick Mastrangelo · January 8, 2020 5:24 pm

Captain of US aircraft carrier is Iranian-American who fled Tehran during 1979 Islamic Revolution

Carlin Becker · January 8, 2020 5:15 pm

Retired Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, 38, who says he shot and killed Osama bin Laden, is interviewed in Washington, Friday, Nov. 14, 2014. The former Navy SEAL says he was inspired to go public about his role after meeting with the families of people who died in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

SEAL who shot bin Laden mocks Iran: ‘Killed more people in their funeral stampede than in the missile attack’

John Gage · January 8, 2020 5:11 pm

This image provided by the Twitter page of @fendifille shows a computer at Greater Preston CCG as Britain's National Health Service is investigating "an issue with IT" Friday May 12, 2017.

Iran blamed for cyberattack against Saudi Arabia

Tim Pearce · January 8, 2020 5:07 pm