New sanctions and criminal charges raise tensions after U.S. designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group last year, killed chief military strategist in drone strike.
U.S. sanctions Iranian-Iraqi businessman over support of Iran’s Quds Force
Iraqi businessman and his mining company, accusing him of being involved in efforts by Iran’s elite Quds Force to generate revenue illegally and smuggle weapons abroad, the U.S. Treasury Department …
A steadfast brother shows that men have a role in the liberation of Iran’s women
There would be nothing newsworthy about yet another unwarranted arrest in Iran, except that this one involves an unusual story of familial love, with a brother making a profound sacrifice for the sake …
Iran Satellite Launch Reveals Gains in Missile Program
An Iranian launch last week marked the coming out of a military program that Tehran has kept mostly under wraps for a decade—and U.S. officials said serves as a guise for the development of …
Virus-hit Iran holds drive-in religious ceremonies
With mosques in Iran closed as it battles the coronavirus, worshippers have adopted the novel solution of getting behind the wheel at drive-ins to gather during the fasting month of Ramadan.
Threat to blow up besieged Iran embassy – archive, 1980
Gunmen occupying the Iranian embassy in London demand an aircraft to fly them out of Britain and the release of 91 prisoners in Iran …
Sources: Most of U.S. House Wants Trump to Shift Iran Tactics at U.N.
Nearly 90% of U.S. House of Representatives members have signed a letter urging the Trump administration to change the way it is dealing with the United Nations as it pushes the Security Council to …
US says Iran helping Venezuela oil sector
The United States said Thursday that cash-strapped Venezuela is paying Iran in gold to rebuild its troubled oil industry as it denounced what it saw as growing cooperation between its two adversaries.
Despite exit, US may use Iran nuclear deal to extend UN arms embargo on Tehran
The Trump administration may use the United Nations Security Council resolution that enshrined the Iran nuclear deal to effectively end the agreement — snapping U.N. sanctions back on Tehran and …
Pompeo and Warren trade Twitter jabs over Iran nuclear deal
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen. Elizabeth Warren traded jabs on Twitter over the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent a conventional weapons embargo on Iran from being lifted.