Tag: Iran

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes talks following a television interview with CNN in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 7, 2015.

Former top Obama official accused of blaming Jews for Iranian nuclear stockpile

Emma Colton · March 3, 2020 11:26 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’s stockpile of enriched uranium is now three times larger than in November

Zach Halaschak · March 3, 2020 11:08 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

Nearly two dozen Iranian lawmakers test positive for coronavirus

Tim Pearce · March 3, 2020 4:30 pm

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets with Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe who is detained in Iran, at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London.

British citizen imprisoned in Iran may have coronavirus

Tim Pearce · March 2, 2020 10:26 pm

Coronavirus kills top adviser to Iranian supreme leader

Madison Dibble · March 2, 2020 6:14 pm

Two rockets land near US Embassy in Baghdad

Zach Halaschak · March 1, 2020 10:53 pm

White House tells people to avoid parts of Italy and South Korea affected by coronavirus and tightens Iran travel ban

Rob Crilly · February 29, 2020 7:15 pm

‘This hearing has been a joke’: Pompeo congressional appearance descends into shoutfest

Joel Gehrke · February 28, 2020 10:01 pm

Beltway Confidential

Coronavirus and voting boycott: A new low for Iranian regime

Alireza Nader · February 27, 2020 7:37 pm

Fighters with Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, wave Iraqi flags while mourners and family members prepare to bury the body of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq on Friday, in Wadi al-Salam, or "Valley of Peace" cemetery, during his funeral procession in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.

Iranian vice president who was spokeswoman of 1979 hostage crisis tests positive for coronavirus

Spencer Neale · February 27, 2020 3:52 pm

Beltway Confidential

Iran and China are pathological coronavirus liars. Why do Democrats want to trust them?

Tom Rogan · February 26, 2020 8:39 pm

A health worker wears protective suit at the infectious disease clinic in Zagreb, Croatia, where the first coronavirus case in Croatia is hospitalized, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020.

Iranian police arrest 24 people for spreading coronavirus rumors

Cassidy Morrison · February 26, 2020 8:32 pm