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The foreign ministers of Germany, the United Kingdom, China, the United States, France, Russia, the European Union and Iran meet in Geneva on Nov. 24, 2013 for talks on the interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program. Source: U.S. Department of State.

The final days of the Iran nuclear deal

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There is a growing chance that by October, the nuclear deal with Iran, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will be dead. Under the deal with the United States, China, Russia,...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo participates in a discussion with David Rubenstein at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on July 29, 2019. Credit: State Department Photo by Michael Gross/Public Domain.

Pompeo: Iran military satellite launch may violate UN resolution

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that Iran’s launch of a military satellite may have defied U.N. Security Council resolution 2231 and that Tehran should be held “accountable.” UNSC Resolution 2231...
This picture, released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on July 27, 2017, claims to show the Simorgh satellite-carrying rocket at Imam Khomeini National Space Center, Iran. Credit: Iranian Defense Ministry.

IRGC claims to have put first Iranian military satellite in orbit

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Wednesday that it had put its first military satellite, called “Noor,” into orbit in a surprise launch. According to the official IRGC website, the satellite successfully reached an...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media in the press briefing room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2019. Credit: State Department Photo by Michael Gross.

Iran threatens ‘decisive’ action to US ‘miscalculation’ in Persian Gulf

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Iran’s Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (NEDSA) said in a statement published on its affiliated Sepah News website on Sunday that its response to U.S. “error in calculation” in the Persian Gulf and...
The Pentagon. Credit: David B. Gleason/Flickr.

Pentagon considers keeping paratroopers in Middle East amid Iranian threat

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The Pentagon is looking into keeping a reaction force of roughly 3,500 U.S. troops sent to the Middle East in January in response to Iranian-backed riots at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The Daily Beast reported on...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with United States Vice President Joe Biden at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2016, during Biden's official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Joe Biden: Israel’s fake ‘friend’

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Former Vice President Joe Biden has made a habit of describing himself as a loyal, stalwart friend and ally of Israel. At a campaign stop earlier this month, for instance, he declared: “I’m so proud of...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in Iran’s Kermanshah Province in November 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Khamenei: ‘Zionist-controlled US government will sink like the Titanic’

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that the United States, “which is controlled by the wealthy Zionist individuals and corporate owners,” would sink like the Titanic. “The Americans decorate a facade to deceive...
U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, senior White House advisers and senior military personnel, delivers remarks during a national televised address Jan. 8, 2020, responding to the retaliatory missile strikes against U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Photo by Shealah Craighead/White House.

Can Trump’s Iran policy succeed in the long run?

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The following was delivered in a speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations’ annual Leadership Mission in Jerusalem on Feb. 17, 2020: Our focus today is on hot spots in the...
An HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter passes the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy in the Arabian Gulf in September 2015. Credit: Anna Van Nuys/U.S. Navy.

US warship seizes Iranian missiles in Arabian Sea

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The U.S. Navy captured illegal Iranian-made weapons earlier this week, including 150 anti-tank missiles on a traditional sailing vessel in the Arabian Sea, announced U.S. Central Command on Thursday. The weapons seized on Sunday included...
The Hall of Columns on the first floor of the House wing in the U.S. Capitol, directly beneath the Hall of the U.S. House of Representatives, is more than 100 feet long. It takes its name from the 28 fluted, white-marble columns that line the corridor. Credit: Flickr/www.aoc.gov.

US Senate passes resolution to limit Trump on military action regarding Iran

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The U.S. Senate passed a resolution on Thursday to curb U.S. President Donald Trump’s ability to enact future U.S. military action against Iran without congressional approval. The tally of the War Powers Resolution was 55-45. Sens....