Tag: Iran

Haley spoke to reporters from a hangar at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., alongside a series of weapons systems that she sourced back to Iran. (Department of Defense)

National Security

Nikki Haley: Missile wreckage proves Iran is violating rules on weapons transfers

Joel Gehrke · December 14, 2017 6:31 pm

The bill is another effort by lawmakers to highlight how U.S. sales of aircraft to Iran might boost the regime's terrorist activities in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)

House passes bill requiring more transparency on US aircraft sales to Iran

Joel Gehrke · December 14, 2017 4:21 pm

This 2017 photo displays the U.S. Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C. A legislative proposal passed 289-135 in the House of Representatives which will require Treasury Department officials to publish a report chronicling the financial assets of Iran's top leaders. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

House votes to have Treasury Department publish Iranian leaders’ assets

Joel Gehrke · December 13, 2017 10:36 pm

White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster identified Turkey as a key source of funding for "extremist ideologies" around the world, a rebuke that angered the Turkish government. It's the latest incident in the deterioration of the U.S. relationship with Turkey, a NATO ally led by the increasingly-authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Turkey blasts H.R. McMaster for his ‘astonishing, baseless and unacceptable’ terrorism allegations

Joel Gehrke · December 13, 2017 10:22 pm

Protesters hold copies of the Cumhuriyet newspaper with headlines in Turkish reading: 'We want justice" and placards with pictures of arrested staff, as they protest against a trial of journalists and staff from the newspaper, accused of aiding terror organizations, outside a court in Silivri, Turkey. This case has added to concerns over rights and freedoms in Turkey; the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual report states it has jailed the most reporters in 2017 at 73 total and takes that title for the second year in a row. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Record-high 262 journalists imprisoned around the world in 2017

Anna Giaritelli · December 13, 2017 8:01 pm

Houthi Shiite rebels walk amid the rubble of the Republican Palace that was destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed on Monday by his onetime allies, the Iran-backed Houthis. Sanaa has witnessed heavy fighting since last week between Saleh's loyalists and Houthis forcing many Yemenis to cower indoors fearing the violent street clashes. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Beltway Confidential

Iran’s weak hand exposed by ongoing developments in Yemen

Washington Examiner · December 12, 2017 7:43 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif cautioned in the New York Times: "As the nuclear deal and the Middle East enter uncharted and potentially combustible territory, it is imperative that Europe helps ensure that we don't soon find ourselves repeating history." However, if there's any lesson to take away from past history, it's that concessions and leniency will only render the Iranian regime more brutal and bolder in the pursuit of its destructive goals. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Beltway Confidential

Iran is taking advantage of Europe’s leniency

Washington Examiner · December 12, 2017 6:26 pm

The Israeli military is too powerful. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Beltway Confidential

Why Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas can’t retake Jerusalem

Tom Rogan · December 12, 2017 6:04 pm

When it comes to the problem of weapons of mass destruction, if the money is right, Dutch businessmen will side with the dictators that would use them rather than the victims who would suffer at those dictators' hands. (AP Photo/ Fred Ernst)

Beltway Confidential

Why Europe can’t be trusted to do what’s right

Michael Rubin · December 11, 2017 4:14 pm

Omri Rahmil is policy adviser for Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

AIPAC internship sparks love of foreign policy for Peter Roskam adviser

Joel Gehrke · December 11, 2017 5:01 am

Next week, Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured right in this photo from 2015) will visit Egypt and hold talks with its military leader, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi (pictured right). According to Russian news reports, defense, trade, and commercial ties will be high up on the agenda. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Putin visit to Egypt proves why Trump must be a realist

Tom Rogan · December 7, 2017 10:25 pm

President Trump on Wednesday announced that the U.S. would formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in spite of advice from a vocal group of national security experts and media pundits. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Jerusalem decision: Trump’s geography lesson for the world

Washington Examiner · December 7, 2017 5:01 am