Tag: Iran

Podcast: Obama’s ‘No Strategy’ Old News In Middle East

TWS Podcast · August 28, 2014 8:19 pm

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (L) said the Islamic State is a threat "beyond anything that we've seen," and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey called it an "apocalyptic" group that will "have to be defeated." (Getty images/Mark Wilson)

Another bad war in Iraq

Steve Chapman · August 27, 2014 10:28 pm

US Coast Guard fires at Iranian boat in Gulf

National Security

US Coast Guard fires at Iranian boat in Gulf

Adam Schreck · August 27, 2014 5:18 pm

This undated photo released Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show the wreckage of an Israeli drone which Iran claims it shot down near an Iranian nuclear site. Iran's state TV on Monday broadcast footage purported to show an Israeli drone the country's Revolutionary Guard claimed to have shot down over the weekend near an Iranian nuclear site. The brief video, aired on the Arabic-language Al-Alam TV, shows what the channel says are parts of the drone, scattered in an unidentified desert area. (AP Photo/Sepahnews)

National Security

Iran says purported Israeli drone came from north

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 2:44 pm

This undated photo released Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show the wreckage of an Israeli drone which Iran claims it shot down near an Iranian nuclear site. Iran's state TV on Monday broadcast footage purported to show an Israeli drone the country's Revolutionary Guard claimed to have shot down over the weekend near an Iranian nuclear site. The brief video, aired on the Arabic-language Al-Alam TV, shows what the channel says are parts of the drone, scattered in an unidentified desert area. (AP Photo/Sepahnews)

National Security

Iran airs TV footage of purported Israeli drone

NASSER KARIMIADAM SCHRECK · August 25, 2014 4:40 pm

Iran says it downs Israeli drone near nuclear site

National Security

Iran says it downs Israeli drone near nuclear site

Nasser Karimi · August 24, 2014 4:34 pm

Iran unveils new short-range missiles, drones

National Security

Iran unveils new short-range missiles, drones

Nasser Karimi · August 24, 2014 8:47 am

Iran says no need for UN to revisit military site

Energy and Environment

Iran says no need for UN to revisit military site

Nasser Karimi · August 23, 2014 3:19 pm

In this photo taken on April 11, 2013, Jason Rezaian, right, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, and his wife Yeganeh Salehi, an Iranian correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based daily newspaper The National, smile as they attend a presidential campaign of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran. They have been held in custody for a month since their detention July 2014 in Iran, suggesting a possible struggle between a new guard of moderates pushing for greater freedom and the old hard-line establishment. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

National Security

Few details month after reporters detained in Iran

Adam Schreck · August 23, 2014 9:11 am

An undamaged helicopter sits on the ground behind the charred remains of a second U.S. helicopter in the Iranian desert of Dasht-E-Kavir, April 26, 1980, the remains of the failed Operation Eagle Claw raid to try to free the American hostages in Iran. The site, about 300 air miles from Tehran, was where the U.S. hostage rescue effort was abandoned, and where a U.S. helicopter and transport collided. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Failed James Foley raid recalls futile past efforts to rescue U.S. captives

Mark Tapscott · August 21, 2014 12:19 pm

Iran's Science, Research and Technology Minister Reza Faraji Dana speaks in his impeachment in an open session of the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. In a move led by hard-line lawmakers, Iran's parliament dismissed the science minister on Wednesday over his alleged support for pro-Western voices at universities, dealing a blow to moderate President Hassan Rouhani. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s parliament dismisses moderate minister

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · August 20, 2014 6:31 pm

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, shakes hands with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Mohammad Berno, Iranian Presidency Office)

National Security

UN sees some progress in Iran nuclear probe

George Jahn · August 18, 2014 3:02 pm