Tag: Iran

Democratic presidential candidates, 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. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., listen to a question during a Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.

Beltway Confidential

3 questions the 2020 Democrats need to answer

Daniel DePetris · July 30, 2019 10:06 pm

President Trump speaks to members of the media at the White House in Washington.

Washington Secrets

Trump report card: Bricks of achievement being laid, impeachment fades

Paul Bedard · July 27, 2019 2:43 pm

A fighter jet flies over Iranian flags during the army parade commemorating National Army Day in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.

US warns Europe not to develop barter system to evade Iran sanctions

Rob Crilly · July 26, 2019 10:58 pm

FILE - This is Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 file photo of CIA Director Michael Pompeo, as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Iran nuclear deal was in near terminal condition and on life support even before President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but his dismissal this week may hasten its demise. As CIA chief and Iran hawk Mike Pompeo prepares to take the helm of the State Department, the Trump administration is weighing whether to withdraw from the agreement earlier than the president has threatened, according to officials and outside advisers briefed on the matter.

Pompeo pledges ‘collective defense’ of shipping threatened by Iran

Joel Gehrke · July 26, 2019 1:55 am

The head of Hezbollah parliamentary bloc Mohamad Raad, attends the weekly meeting of his bloc, in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 11, 2019.

DOJ vows to step up fight against Hezbollah amid Iran tensions

Jerry Dunleavy · July 25, 2019 6:14 pm

In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump walks on the tarmac to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J.

National Security

Trump administration won’t rule out using 2001 war powers act to strike Iran

Russ Read · July 25, 2019 3:59 pm

National Security

UK’s Royal Navy might not have the ships required to safeguard Strait of Hormuz from Iran

Russ Read · July 24, 2019 9:19 pm

Defense Secretary Mark Esper is seen.

New Pentagon chief Mark Esper says US will protect American commercial ships in the Persian Gulf

Jamie McIntyre · July 24, 2019 5:55 pm

The USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, is seen.

US ‘may have brought down’ two Iranian drones last week

Zach Halaschak · July 23, 2019 8:56 pm

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to the Senate as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

War hawks are mad Rand Paul might use diplomacy to avoid war, just like they did with Ronald Reagan

Jack Hunter · July 22, 2019 8:26 pm

In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 photo, two armed members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard inspect the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

Beltway Confidential

Britain is revving up a European military response to Iran

Tom Rogan · July 22, 2019 7:12 pm

An F/A-18 fighter jet taxis on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, Monday, June 3, 2019.

National Security

US Navy identifies missing sailor

Caitlin Yilek · July 22, 2019 6:57 pm