Monday, NBC News’ Lester Holt interviewed Iran’s Ali Shamkhani, the top military adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei. Shamkhani told Holt that he regrets Iran’s decision to sign the nuclear deal:
Shamkhani, who rarely speaks to the...
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Another Shiite militia base near Baghdad has been attacked by airstrikes from an unknown source on Tuesday, one week after a huge blast ripped through a separate pro-Iran militia weapons storehouse near the Iraqi capital's 'Green Zone'.
Arabic...
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During the controversy surrounding Israel's decision to bar Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar into their country, most of the media focus was on President Trump and his tweets on the subject. The media condemned him for violating the...
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David Axe
Security,
Like a fine wine, they get better with age?
Five decades in, Iran’s F-14s are only getting better and better. And more and more important to the Persian state’s defense.
On April 9, 1972, Iraq and the Soviet Union signed...
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David Axe
Security, Middle East
Is trouble just over the horizon?
After Trump restored economic sanctions, Tehran resumed stockpiling uranium. Iran and the West soon began tussling over Persian Gulf shipping.
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duncan...
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The two countries' presidents met in southern France on 19 August to discuss a variety of matters, including Iran, Syria, Ukraine, as well as Russia's relations with European states.
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TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Tehran advises Pyongyang not to trust the United States and plans the visit of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to Pyongyang, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday during a meeting with the North Korean...
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Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are facing outrage for sharing a political cartoon made by an illustrator with a history of creating anti-semitic imagery.
For the past week, the two progressive congresswomen have been...
Both CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today show on Friday boasted of exclusive interviews with top Iranian officials eager to attack the United States and condemn international sanctions against the terrorism-sponsoring regime. Rather than show...
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Just like they did with loyalists to Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, and in other countries as well (Iran comes to mind), Twitter and Facebook have identified networks of "bots" or fake accounts purportedly set up by the mainland government with...
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This piece originally appeared on Informed Comment.
Aljazeera reports that its correspondent in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Andrew Simmons, confirms that a tanker carrying $140 million worth of Iranian petroleum has now left the...
Tensions have been running high between Iran and the Western powers after Gibraltar authorities, assisted by UK marines, arrested an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar on 4 July claiming that the vessel violated EU sanctions by allegedly...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday in southern France, where the heads of state will discuss a wide range of issues, including the crises in Syria and Ukraine, the ongoing tensions...
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The Russian and French presidents have met to discuss an array of topics, ranging from Syria and Iran to Ukraine. Their meeting comes soon after the Syrian Army established control over the city of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, having pushed out...
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Trump has taken an insane U.S. policy towards Iran and make it even crazier, writes Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare Special to Consortium News Traffic accidents normally take just a second or two. But the coming collision in the Persian…Read...
DUBAI, (Reuters) — An Iranian tanker headed through the Mediterranean towards Greece on Monday after it was released from detention off Gibraltar, and Tehran said that any at U.S. move to seize the vessel again would have "heavy consequences."Read...
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The vessel, which was intercepted by British Royal Marines on July 4, left Gibraltar after a court there ruled that it had no authority to enforce U.S. sanctions against Iran.(Image credit: Marcos Moreno/AP)
Authored by Irina Slav via Oilprice.com,
U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and Iran have had an unplanned side effect: they have increased exports of heavy, sour crude from Russia, Bloomberg reports, adding that calculations have shown Russian oil...
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Authored by Tom Luongo,
The Saudis just learned that some moments in history show their significance as they unfold. Iran shooting down a U.S. Global Hawk stealth drone and President Trump refusing his war-hawk cabinet in retaliating militarily is...
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Dakota Wood
Security,
The consequence of this underinvestment is that Britain and other Western nations today are minimally able to protect their own interests, with almost no ability to deter bad behavior of the sort we have recently seen in the...