Tag: Iran

Biden should maintain Trump’s Iran sanctions while pursuing nuclear agreement, experts say

Abraham Mahshie · January 19, 2021 4:07 pm

The political crisis in Washington provides an opportunity for a cyber attack on the electric grid, according to an expert.

Washington Secrets

Political crisis a ‘golden opportunity’ for electric grid and internet attack

Paul Bedard · January 15, 2021 3:26 pm

Pompeo: Iran has allowed al Qaeda to establish ‘a new home base’ under the regime

Joel Gehrke · January 12, 2021 4:05 pm

President Donald Trump signs a Presidential Memorandum on the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington.

A last-ditch Trump strike on Iran could face legal and ethical challenges from the military

Abraham Mahshie · January 12, 2021 11:30 am

Biden CIA pick led secret ‘back channel’ negotiations for Iran deal

Jerry Dunleavy · January 12, 2021 11:30 am

A silhouette of tribesmen loyal to Houthi rebel raise their weapons as they chant slogans during a gathering against the agreement to establish diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020.

National Security

US designating Yemen’s Houthis a terrorist group starting day before Biden inauguration

Zach Halaschak · January 11, 2021 8:31 pm

FILE - In this July 21, 2019, file photo, a speedboat of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

US expects Iran to prepare for talks with Biden, not plot attacks in Trump’s final days

Joel Gehrke · January 10, 2021 1:00 pm

A U.S. Air Force plane takes off from the Incirlik airbase, in southern Turkey.Â "In my opinion this is not the same fight as it was when it started," Marine Brig. Gen. Kevin Killea told reporters at the Pentagon.

US military presence in Georgia would help deter Russia and contain Iran

Miro Popkhadze · January 9, 2021 6:22 pm

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers his sermon in the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020.

Khamenei bans import of vaccines from US as Iran struggles with worst COVID-19 crisis in Middle East

Zach Halaschak · January 8, 2021 10:12 pm

FILE - In this June 6, 2018, file frame from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, three versions of domestically-built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from Natanz, an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, in Iran. Iran plans to start using a new array of advanced centrifuges for enriching uranium, the country's nuclear chief said Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, according to state television, in a move likely to intensify pressure on Europe to save Tehran's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. Ali Akbar Salehi told Iranian state TV that an array of 30 IR-6 centrifuges will be inaugurated in the coming weeks.

Iran claims it’s installing 1,000 centrifuges after announcing expanded uranium enrichment

Zach Halaschak · January 6, 2021 12:40 am

Air traffic controllers receive threat that group is 'flying a plane into the Capitol' to avenge Soleimani killing

Zach Halaschak · January 6, 2021 12:00 am

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers his sermon in the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020.

Iran submits second Interpol request to arrest Trump and other US officials

Tyler Van Dyke · January 5, 2021 9:15 pm