The Biden administration’s special representative for Iran admitted Wednesday that America and its allies must brace for a world in which Tehran’s theocratic government “doesn’t have constraints on its nuclear program” as talks aimed at reviving the moribund 2015 nuclear deal grind on in Vienna. During an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Robert…
Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant. Photo by Hossein Ostovar, Wikimedia Commons. The US is alarmed by Iran’s progress toward obtaining an atomic weapon and hopes to resume talks soon to curb Tehran’s nuclear program, a top official in Washington said on Tuesday. Iran’s nuclear activity was also at the center of talks in Washington between US and…
Pro-Iranian militias exchanged fire with a US-led coalition in eastern Syria Monday, a war monitor and the coalition said, in an escalation after deadly US air strikes in Iraq and Syria the previous night. US forces “were attacked by multiple rockets” in eastern Syria, but there were no casualties and personnel “conducted counter-battery artillery fire at rocket launching positions”, said coalition…
U.S. President Joe Biden and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – Photo: AP, Office of the Iranian Presidency Following reports Washington would offer new proposal to jump-start talks, Tehran threatens to further reduce its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal if U.S. fails to comply with demands while window of opportunity is fast closing. Iran will…
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke, in an exclusive interview with Arab News, about the sustained threat the Iranian regime poses. (AN Photo/Screenshot) Former secretary of state says protecting US soldiers in Middle East requires strong response to Iran’s actions Says to deny Saudis “capacity to defend themselves is just crazy” and blames…
Rouhani applauds UN court’s decision to hear case filed in 2018 over the legality of sanctions reimposed by Trump. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech before the heads of banks, in Tehran, Iran, January 16, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s president Thursday applauded a ruling by the…
Officials say at least one missile landed 20 miles from a commercial vessel. EXCLUSIVE: Long-range missiles from Iran splashed down close to a commercial ship in the Indian Ocean Saturday and 100 miles from the Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group, Fox News has learned, in the latest example of rising tensions in the region. U.S. officials say…
Iranian military forces have shown off their Naval Missile Facility on the coast of the Persian Gulf and boasted of their extended defensive capabilities. The new facility was built on the Persian Gulf, a hotly contested maritime region that plays a key role in global oil exports Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) published photos of a…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps troops on Monday seized the South Korean-flagged MT Hankuk Chemi A South Korean delegation left for Iran on Thursday to negotiate the early release of an oil tanker and its crew seized in strategic Gulf waters this week. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps troops on Monday stormed the South Korean-flagged MT Hankuk Chemi…