Tag: Protests

Beltway Confidential

Virginia’s push for gun control will have consequences for Democrats

Kaylee McGhee White · January 21, 2020 4:35 pm

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declared a temporary emergency banning all weapons, including guns, from Capitol Square ahead of a massive rally planned next week over gun rights.

Virginia declares war on gun owners

Washington Examiner · January 19, 2020 5:00 am

President Trump, left, and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, are seen on a TV screen.

National Security

'Put aside the terrorists': Trump responds to Khamenei in Farsi

Zach Halaschak · January 18, 2020 12:19 am

Beltway Confidential

Gun control is foolish, but ‘Second Amendment sanctuaries’ are an affront to rule of law

Brad Polumbo · January 17, 2020 5:37 pm

11 people arrested during impeachment protests in Senate office buildings

Zach Halaschak · January 16, 2020 11:07 pm

‘One Iranian life’: US warns Iran not to kill protesters

Joel Gehrke · January 14, 2020 6:45 pm

Iranian students ‘shame’ protesters for walking on US and Israeli flags

John Gage · January 13, 2020 5:12 pm

In this photograph taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, Iranian police officers take position while protesters gather in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, to remember victims of a Ukrainian airplane shot down by an Iranian missile. On Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, online videos purported to show that Iranian security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner.

VIDEO: Iranian police fire live rounds at demonstrators protesting plane shootdown

Zach Halaschak · January 13, 2020 3:11 pm

A group of protesters chant slogans at the old grand bazaar in Tehran, Iran, on Monday. Protesters in the Iranian capital swarmed its historic Grand Bazaar on Monday, news agencies reported, and forced shopkeepers to close their stalls in apparent anger over the Islamic republic's troubled economy, months after similar demonstrations rocked the country.

Beltway Confidential

‘We don’t want Islamic Republic’: Thousands of protesters stand up to Iran’s brutality

Kaylee McGhee White · January 12, 2020 4:00 pm

British ambassador detained in Iran during demonstrations

Rob Crilly · January 11, 2020 10:46 pm

A rescue worker searchs the scene where an Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. A Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran's main airport, killing all onboard.

‘Inspiring’: Trump tweets in Farsi to speak directly to Iranian people protesting regime

Zach Halaschak · January 11, 2020 10:25 pm

A woman lays flowers at a memorial of the flight crew members of the Ukrainian 737-800 plane that crashed on the outskirts of Tehran, at Borispil international airport outside in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says that Iran must take further steps following its admission that one of its missiles shot down Ukrainian civilian airliner. He also expressed hope for the continuation of the crash investigation without delay. A team of Ukrainian investigators is in Iran.

‘Death to the dictator’: Protesters in Iran call for Khamenei resignation after downing of jet

Zach Halaschak · January 11, 2020 5:37 pm