Tag: Iran

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s explanation for calling off Iran strike is reasonable, but why did he order one in the first place?

Philip Klein · June 21, 2019 2:29 pm

A U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft flies out from Perth, Australia, International Airport Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Iran claims it refrained from shooting down US plane with passengers on board

Zach Halaschak · June 21, 2019 2:13 pm

President Donald Trump listens to a question during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 20, 2019, in Washington.

Trump stopped attacks against Iran after learning 150 people might die

Zach Halaschak · June 21, 2019 1:38 pm

Donald Trump and Brian Kilmeade.

Brian Kilmeade: Trump’s lack of action in Iran ‘looks like weakness’

Ellie Bufkin · June 21, 2019 1:03 pm

President Donald Trump watches as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau departs the White House, Thursday, June 20, 2019, in Washington.

‘This country will not stand for it’: US prepped for strikes on Iran before approval was withdrawn

Zach Halaschak · June 21, 2019 11:58 am

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., talks with reporters following a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, for the House Republican leadership elections.

Republicans to Trump: Don’t get carried away with retaliation for Iran drone attack

Joel Gehrke · June 21, 2019 3:45 am

Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, is seen.

Top Republican: Iran is ‘miscalculating,’ Trump ‘knows what he has to do’

Joel Gehrke · June 20, 2019 11:36 pm

This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show US RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, as the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, right, listens to an unidentified colonel, in an undisclosed location, Iran.

Thursday’s attack not the first time Iran took down US drone

Russ Read · June 20, 2019 10:08 pm

Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., director, Joint Staff, speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

No, Julia Ioffe, Gen. McKenzie doesn’t want a war over Iranian IEDs

Tom Rogan · June 20, 2019 9:15 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the Media after his annual call-in show in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 20, 2019.

Putin: US-Iran war ‘would be a catastrophe’

Zach Halaschak · June 20, 2019 8:11 pm

This map provided by the Department of Defense, Thursday, June 20, 2019, shows the site where they say a U.S. Navy RQ-4 drone was shot down. The Department of Defense says the drone was flying over the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz on a surveillance mission in international airspace in the vicinity of recent IRGC maritime attacks when it was shot down by an IRGC surface to air missile fired from a launch site in the vicinity of Goruk, Iran.

Iran releases video of military shooting down US drone

Julio Rosas · June 20, 2019 6:23 pm

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington.

Ted Cruz: Trump can retaliate against Iran without congressional approval if proxies kill Americans

Joel Gehrke · June 20, 2019 6:13 pm