Tag: Iran

This Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows thick black smoke rising from Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia.

Beltway Confidential

The US should support Saudi Arabian retaliation against Iran

Tom Rogan · September 16, 2019 6:42 pm

Beltway Confidential

Iran offers Trump an opportunity to rally the world against it

Ray Takeyh · September 16, 2019 6:20 pm

Iran's Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.

Beltway Confidential

Four reasons Iran attacked Saudi Arabia

Tom Rogan · September 16, 2019 5:28 pm

A worker refuels a car at a gas station in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. Global energy prices spiked on Monday after a weekend attack on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia caused the worst disruption to world supplies on record, an assault for which President Donald Trump warned that the U.S. was "locked and loaded" to respond.

Washington Secrets

Iran escalation, new Middle East plan boost State Department deputy for NSC job

Paul Bedard · September 16, 2019 3:56 pm

In this Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019 photo, made from a video broadcast on the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya satellite news channel, smoke from a fire at the Abqaiq oil processing facility fills the skyline, in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia.

Beltway Confidential

How we know Iran attacked Saudi Arabia

Tom Rogan · September 16, 2019 3:49 pm

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump

Tulsi Gabbard accuses Trump of acting ‘as Saudi Arabia’s bitch’

Mike Brest · September 16, 2019 3:09 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Iran says no chance for Trump meeting with Rouhani

Caitlin Yilek · September 16, 2019 12:28 pm

Storage tanks are seen at the North Jiddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019.

Trump approves use of emergency oil reserves and says US is ‘locked and loaded’ after attack on Saudi facilities

Carlin Becker · September 15, 2019 10:41 pm

National security adviser John Bolton attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday.

Bolton reportedly resigned after Trump raised possibility of relieving Iran sanctions

Carlin Becker · September 14, 2019 5:05 pm

United States U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power speaks during her final press conference, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 at U.N. headquarters.

Samantha Power: Iran deal backers went soft on human rights

Joel Gehrke · September 13, 2019 10:57 pm

‘House of cards’: US tariffs are crippling Iran’s pension funds

Tim Pearce · September 13, 2019 8:18 pm

"Parsing Bill," a painting by Petrina Ryan-Kleid, is seen.

The clearest sign John Bolton was doing his job

Dan Hannan · September 13, 2019 3:00 am