Tag: Iran

Beltway Confidential

Blame the media, not that Canadian CEO, for fake news faulting Trump for Iran shooting down that plane

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 14, 2020 12:22 am

Schumer calls Trump foreign policy “dangerously incompetent”

Susan Ferrechio · January 13, 2020 10:54 pm

In this Sept. 18, 2016, file photo provided by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran.

State Department security officials weren’t notified of ‘imminent’ threats to embassies

Caitlin Yilek · January 13, 2020 10:03 pm

U.S. Soldiers stand amid damage at a site of Iranian bombing at Ain al-Asad air base, in Anbar, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Ain al-Asad air base was struck by a barrage of Iranian missiles on Wednesday, in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed atop Iranian commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, whose killing raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East.

PHOTOS: Aftermath of Iranian ballistic missile attack on US-Iraqi base

Zach Halaschak · January 13, 2020 9:43 pm

Beltway Confidential

Iran’s digital dystopia shows why we should never give government control of the internet

Brad Polumbo · January 13, 2020 9:42 pm

In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a ceremony.

Top Iranian reporter apologizes ‘for lying’ and quits government TV after plane crash

Spencer Neale · January 13, 2020 9:41 pm

McConnell denounces Democratic war powers resolution

Susan Ferrechio · January 13, 2020 9:19 pm

National Security

‘A burden off my chest’: Wife of soldier killed in Iraq recounts finding out about Soleimani death

Zach Halaschak · January 13, 2020 9:02 pm

Attorney General Barr William Barr speaks at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Criminal Coordination Conference, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, at the SEC in Washington.

Barr defends Soleimani killing: ‘He was the head of a terrorist organization’

Jerry Dunleavy · January 13, 2020 8:33 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why Iran protests will fail

Tom Rogan · January 13, 2020 7:19 pm

Christians mustn’t forget Israel amid conflict with Iran

Tim Head · January 13, 2020 6:35 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks following remarks by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who told reporters he has secured enough Republican votes to start President Donald Trumpâs impeachment trial and postpone a decision on witnesses and documents Democrats want, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020.

Schumer slams Trump for sharing photo of him in Islamic garb: ‘How low can you go?’

John Gage · January 13, 2020 6:04 pm