Tag: Iran

White House downplays Trump threat to hit Iranian cultural sites

Rob Crilly · January 6, 2020 4:17 pm

FILE- In this Sept. 18, 2016 photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran. A U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport on Friday Jan. 3, 2020 killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force. Soleimani was considered the architect of Iran's policy in Syria. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

National Security

Irish unity group mourns Qassem Soleimani: ‘May his faithful soul be at the right hand of God’

Zach Halaschak · January 6, 2020 3:29 pm

FILE - In this March 2, 2017 file photo, Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio in New York.

Beltway Confidential

On Iran, Tucker Carlson asks the questions no one else does

Jack Hunter · January 6, 2020 3:12 pm

Beltway Confidential

Trump shouldn’t, can’t, and won’t bomb Iranian cultural sites

Tom Rogan · January 6, 2020 2:22 pm

Border Patrol denies reports by Democrats that Iranian-Americans were being detained

Madison Dibble · January 6, 2020 2:13 pm

Democrats demand Trump declassify threats that justified killing Soleimani

Susan Ferrechio · January 6, 2020 2:05 pm

National Security

Democrats poised for House vote blocking US military action against Iran

Susan Ferrechio · January 6, 2020 1:24 pm

The darkened Manhattan skyline is seen from Brooklyn after the city was hit by a power failure, July 13, 1977. An EMP attack could darken vast swaths of the nation and for months.

Washington Secrets

Congress echoes Trump EMP concerns, Iran weapon feared

Paul Bedard · January 6, 2020 1:22 pm

Beltway Confidential

War with Iran? Some people think we’re already in one. They’re wrong

Thomas Spoehr · January 6, 2020 12:59 pm

Ranking Member Rep. Eliot Engel before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, on the Obama administration's case for the Iran Nuclear Agreement.

Beltway Confidential

Top House Democrat flexes war powers vs. Trump. You'll never guess what he said under Obama and Clinton

Timothy P. Carney · January 6, 2020 11:22 am

Beltway Confidential

Trump needs a new messaging strategy for Iraq

Tom Rogan · January 6, 2020 9:26 am

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a Made in America products showcase on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, July 15, 2019.

Trump warns Iran of ‘major retaliation’ if it responds to Soleimani killing

Keith Koffler · January 6, 2020 1:06 am