Tag: Iran

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Former Air Force officer accused of spying for Iran converted to Islam

Caitlin Yilek · February 13, 2019 9:37 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.

Benjamin Netanyahu hastily deletes tweet calling for ‘war with Iran’

Kelly Jane Torrance · February 13, 2019 8:10 pm

A two-day international conference on the Middle East, co-organized by Poland and the United States, is pictured in Warsaw.

Beltway Confidential

Europe and the US agree Iran is a problem, but they can’t agree on a solution

Daniel DePetris · February 13, 2019 7:55 pm

Sailors and Marines conduct flight operations on the flight deck aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations on Feb. 11, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

The Navy needs more original thinking, not more ships

Tom Rogan · February 13, 2019 6:21 pm

Monica Witt.

National Security

Former Air Force intelligence officer charged with spying for Iran

Caitlin Yilek · February 13, 2019 4:12 pm

A Hezbollah supporter holds a portrait the late Iran revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during a rally to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019.

Forty years of misreading Iran

Sean Durns · February 11, 2019 5:00 am

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Rouhani called Western sanctions an "invasion" on Saturday after Washington imposed existing sanctions on more than 25 businesses, banks and individuals suspected of working to expand Iran's nuclear program, support terrorism and help Iran evade U.S. and international sanctions. Iran's state TV also said the move violated an interim agreement reached with world powers under which Western nations agreed to ease sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear activities. However, Friday's action did not constitute an expansion of the sanctions regime.

Trump mustn’t let allies help Iran evade sanctions

David Ibsen · February 9, 2019 5:00 am

Magazine - Features

The self-muzzling of the free world

James Kirchick · February 8, 2019 5:00 am

In this Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks to reporters onboard Air Force One, on his way back to the White House in Washington from a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s Iraq gaffe is a real problem

Tom Rogan · February 7, 2019 9:44 pm

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani, appears at an event.

Beltway Confidential

Why Iran’s hardliners just aggressively threatened Israel

Tom Rogan · February 5, 2019 8:52 pm

President Trump speaks at a hanger rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018.

National Security

Trump says US troops will remain in Iraq to keep ‘watch’ on Iran

Daniel Chaitin · February 3, 2019 4:47 pm

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, right, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, left, and Jeremy Hunt United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, stand during statements at a Gymnich meeting of EU foreign ministers in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019.

Europeans establish Iran sanctions work-around in defiance of Trump

Joel Gehrke · January 31, 2019 10:34 pm