Tag: Middle East

At a United Nations Security Council meeting Friday the ambassadors from the U.K. and France warned the U.S. to ease its language regarding the ongoing protests in Iran. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

National Security

France, UK warn against shredding Iran nuclear deal

Joel Gehrke · January 5, 2018 11:13 pm

The Princes and the Mullahs

Elliott Abrams · January 5, 2018 9:00 am

Each new protest represents an opportunity to leverage the people's resentment against the Iranian regime, the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism and a pervasive human rights abuser. (Mehdi Pedramkhoo/Mehr News Agency via AP)

Trump should go further on Iran

Ivan Sascha Sheehan · January 5, 2018 5:01 am

The strength of protests shaking Iran was unclear on Thursday after a week of unrest that killed at least 21 people, with fewer reports of demonstrations as government supporters again took to the streets in several cities and towns. (Nima Najafzadeh/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Trump weighs in on Iran protests, reactions break down along party lines

Sarah Bedford · January 5, 2018 4:17 am

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms the deaths to date and the arrests of at least one thousand Iranians," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a press statement. (Nima Najafzadeh/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

National Security

State Department warns Iranian officials who abuse protesters could face more sanctions

Joel Gehrke · January 4, 2018 7:38 pm

Vice President Mike Pence is losing his chief lawyer and domestic policy director. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Mike Pence pushes to achieve long-term goal of democratic change in Iran

Gabby Morrongiello · January 3, 2018 5:24 pm

In bending over backwards to make the Iran nuclear deal, Obama sent Iranians the message that Ronald Reagan 50 years ago warned should never be sent to the world's oppressed: "Give up your dreams of freedom, because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Iran that Obama helped keep in place

Washington Examiner · January 3, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump announced this week that the U.S. would suspend millions of dollars in aid to Pakistan, and said the country has given the U.S. "nothing but lies and deceit" and granted terrorists a "safe haven." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump floats possibility of suspending aid to Palestinians

Diana Stancy Correll · January 2, 2018 11:42 pm

In this photo obtained by the Associated Press outside Iran, university students attend a protest inside Tehran University. Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein said on Tuesday that Instagram and other major social media platforms are "legitimate avenues for communication" and called on the Iranian government to unblock those sites so protesters could reach each other. (AP Photo)

Trump administration pressures Iran to unblock social media

Sarah Bedford · January 2, 2018 6:01 pm

The sowing of a successful future revolution. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

What will happen in Iran?

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2018 4:20 pm

Pakistan’s government hits back at Trump over foreign aid threat: US has ‘given us nothing but mistrust’

Josh Siegel · January 1, 2018 6:08 pm

Mike Pence promises American support for Iranian protestors: ‘We will not let them down’

Josh Siegel · January 1, 2018 5:11 pm