Tag: Iran

Beltway Confidential

Support Iranian protesters: Let them visit America

Yael Ossowski · January 13, 2020 5:58 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

Trump: ‘It doesn’t really matter’ if Soleimani was imminent threat

Caitlin Yilek · January 13, 2020 5:39 pm

Democratic presidential candidates from left, author Marianne Williamson, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice-President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., former Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., wave as they enter the stage for the second night of the Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Thursday, June 27, 2019, in Miami.

Most 2020 Democrats mum after Iranian regime fires on protesters

Dominick Mastrangelo · January 13, 2020 5:16 pm

Iranian students ‘shame’ protesters for walking on US and Israeli flags

John Gage · January 13, 2020 5:12 pm

Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Beltway Confidential

Democratic leadership turns its back on Iranian protesters

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 13, 2020 4:43 pm

Foreigners board a Qatar Airways aircraft at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021.

Congress could vote Tuesday on war powers

Jamie McIntyre · January 13, 2020 4:40 pm

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, in Toledo, Ohio.

Trump retweets picture of Pelosi and Schumer in Islamic garb with Iranian flag

John Gage · January 13, 2020 3:51 pm

In this photograph taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, Iranian police officers take position while protesters gather in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, to remember victims of a Ukrainian airplane shot down by an Iranian missile. On Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, online videos purported to show that Iranian security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner.

VIDEO: Iranian police fire live rounds at demonstrators protesting plane shootdown

Zach Halaschak · January 13, 2020 3:11 pm

Posters of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani are placed on chairs as supporters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gather for his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Soleimani. The posters read: "Sayyad of martyrs in the axis of resistance. The martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani."

Trump authorized Soleimani killing seven months ago: Report

John Gage · January 13, 2020 2:03 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Canadian CEO who lashed Trump over Iran was responsible for listeria outbreak that killed 22

John Gage · January 13, 2020 1:28 pm

Soleimani’s death fits Trump’s desire for orderly withdrawal from the Middle East

Dan Hannan · January 13, 2020 5:00 am

President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Washington.

Most Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of heightened tensions with Iran

Tim Pearce · January 12, 2020 9:44 pm