Tag: Iran

Beltway Confidential

In Iran, revolution is starting in the bazaar

Michael Rubin · June 25, 2018 9:02 pm

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned the Trump administration that pulling out from the Iran nuclear deal would undermine talks with any other nation that signs a deal with the U.S.

Iran: US wants us to quit the nuclear deal

Joel Gehrke · June 25, 2018 8:51 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the SelectUSA Summit, in Oxon Hill, Md., on Friday.

Pompeo: Iran will face ‘wrath of entire world’ if it ramps up nuke program

Robert King · June 23, 2018 3:15 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel answers a question during a meeting with students at the campus of the German Jordanian University, in the city of Madaba, Jordan, on Thursday.

Beltway Confidential

Angela Merkel’s soaring hypocrisy on Iran

Tom Rogan · June 21, 2018 8:19 pm

Trump’s Big Backtrack?

TWS Podcast · June 21, 2018 4:21 pm

Taliban fighters gather in Surkhroad district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 16.

State Department: Russia, Iran ‘hedging their bets’ to back Taliban

Joel Gehrke · June 20, 2018 4:12 pm

Meet the Iranian Police Who Enforce Iran’s Islamist Ideology

Tzvi Kahn · June 20, 2018 8:56 am

Iran's Minister of Petroleum Bijan Namdar Zangeneh speaks to journalists at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, June 19, 2018.

Energy and Environment

Iran blames Trump for high oil prices ahead of OPEC meeting

Josh Siegel · June 19, 2018 8:42 pm

Bruno Le Maire delivers a speech in France.

France: No ‘European financial institution’ can defy US sanctions

Joel Gehrke · June 19, 2018 8:15 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, walk during their meeting marking 75th anniversary of the 75th anniversary of the Sobibor uprising, the only successful uprising that took place in a death camp during World War II at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018.

Benjamin Netanyahu tells Vladimir Putin: ‘Iran has to withdraw from all of Syria’

Joel Gehrke · June 17, 2018 8:30 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 22, 2018.

National Security

Chuck Schumer: Trump is being ‘weaker’ on North Korea than Obama was on Iran

Naomi Lim · June 17, 2018 5:18 pm

The group B match between Morocco and Iran at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the St. Petersburg Stadium in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Beltway Confidential

Iran and Morocco’s World Cup match is a tale of grass-based soccer and desert-based conflict

Tom Rogan · June 15, 2018 4:27 pm