Tag: Iran

The Trump administration is calling on Iran's government to stop blocking Instagram and other popular social media sites as Iranians demonstrate in the streets. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Trump: Iranian protesters ‘will see great support’ from US

Anna Giaritelli · January 3, 2018 1:53 pm

White House Watch: Trump’s Team Scrambles to Get Ahead of the Iran Protests

Michael Warren · January 3, 2018 9:55 am

In bending over backwards to make the Iran nuclear deal, Obama sent Iranians the message that Ronald Reagan 50 years ago warned should never be sent to the world's oppressed: "Give up your dreams of freedom, because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Iran that Obama helped keep in place

Washington Examiner · January 3, 2018 5:01 am

A wave of protests swept into Tehran, Iran on Saturday, with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hardliners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic's clerical establishment. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Some U.S. media coverage of Iran unrest as sloppy and predictable as you’d imagine

Becket Adams · January 3, 2018 12:27 am

The poll does a poor job of hiding the true intentions of its organizers, which is to further buy time for a regime whose departure is long overdue. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Iran’s female protesters show how vacuous American feminists are

Nicole Russell · January 2, 2018 10:28 pm

What will 2018 have in store? Border walls? Landslide elections? The end of Steve Bannon's political career? The Washington Examiner commentary desk takes a swing at the answer. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

2018 predictions from the Washington Examiner commentary team

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2018 9:43 pm

"We certainly keep our options open in terms of sanctions ... He's going to keep all of his options open in that regard," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

National Security

White House: Trump won’t ‘sit by silently’ as Iranian protests continue

Gabby Morrongiello · January 2, 2018 8:13 pm

United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley called for the Security Council to hold an emergency session on the protests, which have featured anti-government chants and violent reprisals from the regime. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

National Security

Nikki Haley: The UN ‘must speak out’ to support protesters in Iran

Joel Gehrke · January 2, 2018 7:43 pm

In this photo obtained by the Associated Press outside Iran, university students attend a protest inside Tehran University. Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein said on Tuesday that Instagram and other major social media platforms are "legitimate avenues for communication" and called on the Iranian government to unblock those sites so protesters could reach each other. (AP Photo)

Trump administration pressures Iran to unblock social media

Sarah Bedford · January 2, 2018 6:01 pm

The sowing of a successful future revolution. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

What will happen in Iran?

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2018 4:20 pm

Both hard-liners and reformers in Iran began protesting the government over rising food and gas prices in addition to their declining economy that has yielded high unemployment in spite of lifted sanctions over 2015's Iran nuclear deal. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

The worst Iran take (yet): The Women’s March and the Iranian protests are the same

Siraj Hashmi · January 2, 2018 3:07 pm

President Trump blamed former President Barack Obama for paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran before leaving office. Obama also approved a $1.7 billion payout to Iran in three cash installments as part of a deal to release four U.S. hostages. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump blames Obama for contributing to ‘corrupt Iranian regime’

Anna Giaritelli · January 2, 2018 12:32 pm