Tag: Iran

The work of the CIA is too important to be left to just anybody. Director Mike Pompeo (pictured above) is clearly exceeding expectations, both in his relationship with President Trump and in his leadership of a complex but crucially important agency.

Beltway Confidential

Mike Pompeo just proved why America needs him at the CIA

Tom Rogan · December 6, 2017 5:01 am

With Syria Strikes, Israel Attempts to Send a Message to Trump and Putin

Matthew R.J. Brodsky · December 5, 2017 7:52 pm

Iran had a unique combination of motive and means. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Beltway Confidential

Was Iran behind the killing of Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh?

Tom Rogan · December 4, 2017 6:24 pm

Thursday's missile launch is just one more reminder that the U.S. must redouble its efforts to counter Iranian influence and restrict that nation's ballistic missile program. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Beltway Confidential

Iran just fired another ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia

Tom Rogan · November 30, 2017 8:27 pm

Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab was arrested in the U.S. in March 2016, accused of bank fraud, money laundering, and helping the Iranian government evade U.S. economic sanctions on Iran. (Depo Photos via AP, File)

Beltway Confidential

Why the Reza Zarrab guilty plea matters to Turkey and the world

Michael Rubin · November 28, 2017 10:04 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad met ahead of a summit between Russia, Turkey, and Iran and a new round of Syria peace talks. Syria is strategically significant for all sides. Russia wants to maintain a naval base on the Mediterranean Sea, provided by the Syrian government. Iran wants its militias to be free to operate across Iraq and Syria. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia: ‘Unrealistic’ for Iran to leave Syria

Joel Gehrke · November 28, 2017 3:32 pm

With regime change in Iran gaining increasing support both at home and abroad, Tehran is frantically resorting to the oldest trick in its book: demonizing the opposition. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Beltway Confidential

Tehran’s futile attempts at discrediting the cause for regime change in Iran

Washington Examiner · November 27, 2017 3:45 pm

People are treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May. 15, 2017. Saudi Arabia will allow food and medicine in to the country after a blockade of the country for more than two years. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

White House says Iran ‘exploits’ mass starvation in Yemen while praising Saudi Arabia for opening port

Steven Nelson · November 24, 2017 7:27 pm

While President Trump has his fair share of opponents in the States and South Korea, the president's aggressive strategy with North Korea, including his recent decision to declare the hermit kingdom a state sponsor of terrorism, appear to be working. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Trump’s fitting label of North Korea

Washington Examiner · November 24, 2017 5:01 am

Iran's navy has little potency as a "blue-water" or oceanic military force. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Ebrahim Norouzi)

Beltway Confidential

You should welcome Iran’s decision to send navy vessels to the Gulf of Mexico

Tom Rogan · November 23, 2017 8:47 pm

Until the axis is ready to transfer real power to those Syrians it has brutally oppressed, the U.S. should not dance to Putin's diplomatic waltz. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Russia-Turkey-Iran-Assad axis want to steal Syria’s future. The US must obstruct them

Tom Rogan · November 22, 2017 4:30 pm

Behzad Mesri attempted to extort HBO for $6 million worth of Bitcoin. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

National Security

Iranian national charged with hacking HBO

Kelly Cohen · November 21, 2017 4:32 pm