Tag: Iran

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White House Report Card: A- for a good week on Iran, China, immigration

Paul Bedard · May 18, 2019 2:58 pm

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, talks with reporters.

GOP lawmaker: US soldiers threatened with kidnapping and killing in Iran

Diana Stancy Correll · May 18, 2019 1:45 am

Israeli honor guards march in formation during rehearsal just before a ceremony marking the annual Memorial Day to remember fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Armored Corps memorial site in Latrun, Israel, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Israel marks the annual Memorial Day in remembrance of soldiers who died in the nation's conflicts.

Beltway Confidential

Why Israel doesn’t want an American war with Iran

Tom Rogan · May 17, 2019 8:14 pm

British Maj. Gen. Christopher Ghika in Mosul, Iraq on Oct. 9, 2018.

British general in Iran controversy is a Romanian prince

Russ Read · May 17, 2019 5:34 pm

Pedestrians cross the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) street under a mural depicting the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, members of Basij paramilitary force, center, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 31, 2015.

Beltway Confidential

How Trump must bring clarity to his Iran policy

Tom Rogan · May 17, 2019 5:24 pm

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said that public talk of Moscow's meddling could also expose how the U.S. collects intelligence on its old Cold War adversary. "I am very much on the side of calling them out and exposing what they are doing," Thornberry said.

National Security

Mac Thornberry: Intelligence reports on Iran show ’cause for greater concern’

Russ Read · May 17, 2019 10:39 am

Magazine - Washington Briefing

What war with Iran would look like

Jamie McIntyre · May 17, 2019 4:00 am

Summit gamble won’t cool Iran tensions

Steven Nelson · May 17, 2019 4:00 am

FILE -This Sunday, Oct. 23, 1983, file photo shows service members digging through rubble after a truck bombing on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos will speak Wednesday Oct. 23, 2013 at a memorial bordering Camp Lejeune that honors the deadliest terrorist attack on Americans prior to Sept. 11, 2001. Many of the 241 Americans killed on Oct. 23, 1983, were members of Camp Lejeune's 24th Marine Amphibious Unit.

National Security

Bipartisan bill aims to give families of Beirut bombing victims $1.68B in Iranian funds

Russ Read · May 16, 2019 10:38 pm

Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., pauses while speaking with the media after a closed-door briefing for the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Washington.

National Security

Bob Menendez: We don’t need another ‘weapons of mass destruction’ moment with Iran

Diana Stancy Correll · May 16, 2019 8:21 pm

British Maj. Gen. Christopher Ghika in Mosul, Iraq on Oct. 9, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Be wary of British generals on Iran

Tom Rogan · May 16, 2019 6:10 pm

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., speaks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, about his vision for the future of U.S. foreign policy.

2020 Democrat: Trump ‘lied about his feet’ to avoid Vietnam

Julio Rosas · May 16, 2019 4:52 pm