Tag: Iran

Editorial: Europe Loves the Mullahs

The Editors · November 28, 2018 12:41 pm

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin gives a press conference.

US issues new sanctions in crackdown on oil shipments to Syria

Colin Wilhelm · November 20, 2018 6:13 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif speaks with the media after a meeting with the European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at the Europa building in Brussels on Tuesday, May 15, 2018.

The lies that Javad Zarif told

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2018 5:00 am

Delivery workers sort boxes of goods for their customers outside an office building in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea pose a threat, and our military isn’t ready for it

Erin Dunne · November 14, 2018 9:17 pm

House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, leads the panel in D.C.

Republicans block Democratic bill to end US role in Yemen war

Travis J. Tritten · November 13, 2018 11:34 pm

Fighters with Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, wave Iraqi flags while mourners and family members prepare to bury the body of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq on Friday, in Wadi al-Salam, or "Valley of Peace" cemetery, during his funeral procession in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.

Beltway Confidential

Iran’s regime is terribly afraid … of dancing on Instagram

Matt Daniels, Doug Bandow · November 13, 2018 7:45 pm

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday Oct. 7, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Why Israel advocates going easy on Khashoggi’s killers

Erin Dunne · November 13, 2018 1:08 pm

President Trump takes the stage at a rally at Alumni Coliseum in Richmond, Ky., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018.

Energy and Environment

Trump warns oil cartel OPEC to not cut production

Josh Siegel · November 12, 2018 6:45 pm

Energy and Environment

Trump wields his energy weapon

John Siciliano · November 11, 2018 11:30 pm

Hezbollah supporters wave Hezbollah and Palestinian flags during a demonstration against the Israeli offensive in Gaza near UN headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday, November 17, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Beltway Confidential

The untold race in the Middle East to be the diplomatic peacemaker

Michael Rubin · November 9, 2018 2:41 pm

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., left, greets Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the ranking member, during a markup of a bill to expand sanctions against Iran with respect to its ballistic missile program, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017.

Iran hawks see House ally in ascendant Democratic lawmaker

Joel Gehrke · November 8, 2018 7:56 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, fishing boats are seen in front of oil tankers on the Persian Gulf waters, south of the Strait of Hormuz, offshore the town of Ras Al Khaimah in United Arab Emirates. The European Union has announced plans to join US efforts to slow the flow of oil from Iran, the world's third largest exporter. In response, Iran has threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz and prevent one fifth of the world's oil from reaching customers.

Energy and Environment

State Department warns the world: Iranian oil tankers are a ‘floating liability’

Joel Gehrke · November 7, 2018 10:11 pm