Tag: Iran

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Allen Grenell, center, attends the new year reception for the diplomatic corps in the presidential palace in Berlin Monday, Jan. 14, 2019.

Richard Grenell, Trump’s top ambassador, ‘delivers again,’ blocking Iran

Paul Bedard · January 21, 2019 4:24 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during the commissioning ceremony of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Saturday, July, 22, 2017.

Trump: We’re battling ISIS for Russia, Iran who ‘are not necessarily in agreement with us’

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · January 19, 2019 3:51 pm

President Trump speaks about American missile defense doctrine, Thursday, Jan 17, 2019, at the Pentagon.

National Security

Trump reimagines Reagan-era ‘Star Wars’ to meet 21st century missile threats

Jamie McIntyre · January 17, 2019 5:26 pm

National security adviser John Bolton is pictured.

Beltway Confidential

Is John Bolton the most reckless man in the White House?

Daniel DePetris · January 16, 2019 8:19 pm

An oil rig near Moscow, Russia. Russia and Saudi Arabia said May 2017 they want to extend oil production cuts through the first quarter of 2018, in a move the two major producers say would support the market price.

Energy and Environment

Trump’s Iran waivers, rather than his deregulatory push, have lowered oil prices

John Siciliano · January 16, 2019 5:00 am

CORRECTS SOURCE TO THE IRANIAN ARMY -- In this photo provided Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, by the Iranian Army, a Sayyad 2 missile is fired by the Talash air defense system during drills in an undisclosed location in Iran. Iran greeted the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions on Monday with air defense drills and a statement from President Hassan Rouhani that the nation faces a "war situation," raising Mideast tensions as America's maximalist approach to the Islamic Republic takes hold.

Beltway Confidential

Planning for military strikes on Iran is actually the responsible thing to do

Michael Rubin · January 14, 2019 2:34 pm

A U.S. soldier sits in an armored vehicle on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. President Donald Trump expects to decide "very quickly" whether to remove U.S. troops from war-torn Syria, saying their primary mission was to defeat the Islamic State group and "we've almost completed that task."

National Security

John Bolton’s National Security Council sought military options to strike Iran: Report

Daniel Chaitin · January 13, 2019 11:23 am

Iran's Vice-President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi, left, talks to European Union Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete at the end of a news conference at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

New EU sanctions on Iran are toothless

Tom Rogan · January 9, 2019 7:11 pm

In this 2017 photo released by the Kuwait News Agency, retired U.S. Gen. Anthony Zinni, centre left, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Timothy Lenderking met with Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled al-Jarallah, centre right, in Kuwait.

Beltway Confidential

Anthony Zinni’s resignation is no obvious rebuke to Trump

Tom Rogan · January 8, 2019 7:25 pm

The Iranian flag flies in front of a U.N. building where closed-door nuclear talks take place at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Friday, July 4, 2014.

National Security

Family says US Navy veteran has been imprisoned in Iran for months

Diana Stancy Correll · January 8, 2019 4:22 am

In this picture taken Nov. 21, 2018, German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks in the Bundestag.

Beltway Confidential

Germany cyberattack: The five most likely culprits

Tom Rogan · January 4, 2019 7:51 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think tank, in Washington, Monday, May 21, 2018. Pompeo issued a steep list of demands Monday that he said should be included in a nuclear treaty with Iran to replace the Obama-era deal, threatening "the strongest sanctions in history" if Iran doesn't change course.

Pompeo: US ‘will not stand by and watch’ Iran develop ballistic missiles

Joel Gehrke · January 3, 2019 3:25 pm