Tag: Iran

State Department spokesman Ned Price.

State Department defends removing Houthis from terror list despite ensuing civilian attacks

Joel Gehrke · February 9, 2021 12:04 am

Marine Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie.

National Security

Taliban’s actions will complicate removing all US troops from Afghanistan, Central Command chief warns

Abraham Mahshie · February 8, 2021 8:07 pm

A Ghadr-H missile, center, a solid-fuel surface-to-surface Sejjil missile and a portrait of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are displayed at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, for the annual Defense Week which marks the 37th anniversary of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

White House says Biden did not change Iran policy with a nod of his head

Rob Crilly · February 8, 2021 7:08 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Iran's heavy water nuclear facility is backdropped by mountains near the central city of Arak, Iran. A senior Iranian official said Monday, March 17, 2014, that an alleged attempt to sabotage one of Tehran's nuclear facilities, the nuclear reactor at Arak in the center of the country, involved foreign intelligence agencies who tampered with imported pumps. Tehran has accused the Israel, the U.S. and their allies of undermining Iran's nuclear program through covert operations. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

Beltway Confidential

In Super Bowl interview, Biden rightly rejects Iran sanctions gambit

Tom Rogan · February 7, 2021 10:01 pm

National Security

Iran: US must lift sanctions before it lives up to nuclear deal

Associated Press · February 7, 2021 8:01 pm

Iranian flag

Iran facing calls to be kicked out of Olympics after execution of boxer

Benjamin Weinthal · February 5, 2021 5:49 pm

National Security

Aiming to boost Russia deterrence, Biden freezes Trump’s Germany troop withdrawal plan

Abraham Mahshie · February 4, 2021 10:19 pm

Police patrol during the trial of four persons, including an Iranian diplomat and Belgian-Iranian couple at the courthouse in Antwerp, Belgium, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. An Iranian official on Thursday was convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court that rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity.

Iranian diplomat convicted in plot to bomb Paris meeting of dissidents

Zach Halaschak · February 4, 2021 8:56 pm

Saudi-led coalition backed forces petrol, Mocha, Yemen.

Beltway Confidential

Biden makes the right call on Yemen

Daniel DePetris · February 4, 2021 8:23 pm

By stating that "Palestine is the river to the sea and Al Quds is undoubtedly its capital," Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is actually saying that all of Jerusalem and all Israeli territory from the West Bank to the Mediterranean Sea is actually Palestinian territory. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

On Iran, Biden must not squander the leverage Trump gave him

Washington Examiner · February 4, 2021 5:00 am

In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 file photo released by Tasnim News Agency, a seized South Korean-flagged tanker is escorted by Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats on the Persian Gulf. Iranian state television acknowledged that Tehran seized the oil tanker, MT Hankuk Chemi, in the Strait of Hormuz. A South Korean diplomatic delegation arrived in Iran on Sunday to negotiate the release of a South Korean vessel seized amid an escalating financial dispute between the countries, Iranian state-run media reported.

National Security

Iran agrees to free South Korean ship crew after nearly a month of captivity

Zach Halaschak · February 2, 2021 11:15 pm

President Barack Obama receives a briefing from Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, during his visit to MacDill Air Force Base, Sept. 17, 2014. The president consulted with top leaders to discuss the U.S. counter-terrorism military campaign against Islamic State militants.

National Security

Can Biden avoid repeating these Obama-era national security missteps?

Abraham Mahshie · February 2, 2021 6:49 pm