The United States’ heavy-handed approach toward sanctions may have consequences far more severe than the US is prepared for. As Iran is inching ever closer to renege on the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal ...
After Israel, the Islamic Republic is home to the largest population of Jews in the Middle East. On December 14, 2019, a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, vandalizing the sanctuary. He unrolled Torah ...
Iran has long attempted to free itself of the global economic banking system, promoting an “axis of resistance” against Western countries. (By MEMO) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on Muslim majority countries to cooperate ...
The U.S. pressed its case to the U.N. Security Council that Iran was behind attacks on Saudi oil facilities in September, while the U.N. is hesitant to rush to judgment. (MEMO) The US has shared ...
New satellite images show a U.S. aircraft carrier being escorted by 20 small ships followed by the Iranian Navy as it left the Strait of Hormuz. (By MEMO) Satellite images have been released showing a ...
“Once our leadership decides to attack the Zionist enemy, we will be ready to do so.” The Defense Minister of the Yemeni militant Houthi group, Major General Mohammad Al-Atefi, warned over the weekend that Houthis ...
In a temporary softening of relations between the U.S. and Iran, the two countries agreed to a prisoner swap on Saturday. Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang was freed by Iran on Saturday after serving three ...
In late November, U.S. navy personnel boarded an unmarked ship and found a cache of missile parts that the U.S. claims are Iranian made and bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen. U.S. naval forces in ...
“We should establish security in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz through expanding our cooperation and preventing foreign powers to interfere.” – Iranian President Rouhani. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed on Tuesday his country’s willingness ...
After many protests, some violent, Iraq is stepping away from under Iran’s shadow to establish its own self-governance. Following an almost irresistible, and admittedly unforeseen, rise to the height of power in the Greater Middle ...
President Rouhani announced the discovery of a huge new oilfield in Iran, but will Iran have any buyers as U.S. sanctions continue to scare off customers? Standing in the desert city of Yazd, Iranian President ...
The United Nations has repeatedly said that sanctions are not a humane policy and must no longer be allowed to be part of the arsenal of the powerful nations. In late October, Human Rights Watch ...
Protests in Iraq and Lebanon have turned into anti-Iranian demonstrations, a blame Iran places on the U.S., but are the protests really the result of a U.S.-Iran proxy war? Recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon, ...
Conventional battlefields have been replaced by cyber warfare and the U.S. has already conducted two cyber attacks on Iran in 2019. The U.S. is believed to have launched at least two secretive cyber attacks on ...
With impeachment hearings swirling around U.S. President Trump, youth environmentalists scolding adults for failing to address climate change and a multitude of clashes between nations, the 74th UNGA offered plenty of highlights. On September 30, ...
As impeachment proceedings against Trump ramp up, could he turn to declaring war on Iran in a move to provide distraction? On CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the architect of ...
The fate of the planet is in the balance. But so is the fate of humanity. The United Nations General Assembly gathers this week at the UN headquarters in New York City. This is the ...
The Houthi drone strike on Aramco shows the shifting strategic balance in the Persian Gulf. It also shows that any escalation in this region threatens the global economy. The intricate war dance among the U.S., ...
“Since the US revoked waivers for even modest imports of Iranian oil, half a dozen tankers have been sabotaged or seized in the Persian Gulf, and America and Iran nearly went to war after Iran ...
If Americans fail to speak out now, we may discover too late that our failure to rein in our venal, warmongering ruling class has led us to the brink of World War III. On Saturday, ...
An attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities has renewed fears of a looming US-Iran conflict, despite claims of responsibility by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Devastating drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil facilities on Saturday ...
In response to an attack on Saudi oil facilities, President Trump has announced that the U.S. is locked and loaded to retaliate. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday that his country is ready to ...
With the US “locked and loaded” on Iran, the Amazon on fire and India and Pakistan feuding over Kashmir, the upcoming UN General Assembly will be a check-in for where countries stand on several important ...
If you want to identify the most reckless powers in our world today, look no further than Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America. There’s no point in dredging ...
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators condemned Saudi Arabia’s failure to provide financial aid to war-torn Yemen in a letter sent directly to the Saudi royal family. In a letter spearheaded by Sen. Chris Murphy ...
Saudi Arabia is moving forward with a uranium enrichment program, but can the U.S. embrace a nuclear Saudi Arabia after exiting the Iran Deal? While attending a conference in Abu Dhabi on Monday, Saudi Arabi’s ...
An airstrike Sunday night targeted pro-Iran factions in Syria, while the party responsible is unknown, the strike fits a pattern of recent Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...
Once again relatively little was achieved at the annual G-7 summit – a forum that appears outdated and anachronistic. The G7 meetings seem—as each of them passes—to be a waste of time. The 45th G7 ...
An unexpected guest, a financial pledge for the Amazon, trade talks, and Russia’s reinstatement were just some of the key topics discussed at the 2019 G-7 summit in Biarritz. On Monday, the 2019 Group of ...
“The Lebanese government sees it best to avoid any sliding of the situation towards a dangerous escalation but this requires the international community affirming its rejection of this blatant violation.” Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced ...
An Iranian tanker seized and held by the U.K. for 46 days was recently released, but will voices within the Trump administration pressure President Trump into “making a move” on the tanker? At 11:30 p.m. ...
Multiple Americans who attended an annual Iranian-backed conference critical of U.S.-Isreal policy reported threatening visits from the FBI in recent months. According to three U.S. former government or military officials, the U.S. Federal Bureau of ...
As tensions in the Middle East worsen, a recent military ranking index suggests an Iran-Israel military conflict would pit two equally formidable military forces. According to the annual Military Strength Ranking report compiled by Global ...
“The United States has walked into a corner. By sanctioning Iran, it has suggested that it is not interested in diplomacy.” Word of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to sanction Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif ...
A now powerful player in the White House, the MKO/MEK group has become a force to be reckoned with, most likely to the detriment of peace. In a rare move last month Congressional members crossed ...
The U.S. plans for a naval armada in Hormuz will run against the Laws of Seas and Iran’s sovereignty over its territorial waters. We are now sleepwalking to a new war in the region with ...
“The ball is in Europe’s court. Are Paris, London and Berlin going to again waste a chance under the influence of (U.S. President Donald) Trump, or use the remaining opportunity to fulfill their promises and ...
Israeli claims that Hezbollah smuggles arms through Beirut is an attempt to rally the international community against Lebanon, says Hezbollah official. In a televised speech aired on Friday by the Hezbollah-run Manar TV, the leader ...
The United States refuses to accept that Iran has the right—under international law—to a nuclear energy program. At a Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the United States of ...
Tuesday night, just after midnight, Syria was on the receiving end of Israeli-launched rockets. Syria’s official news agency, SANA, and Syrian state television reported on Wednesday that Isreal launched a rocket attack on military targets ...
“I think there is a possible opening that Iran would sign an agreement saying that they won’t develop a nuclear weapon, ever.” Last week, Iran announced its readiness to defuse ongoing tensions with the U.S. ...
“The Stena Impero was seized in Omani waters in clear contravention of international law. It was then forced to sail into Iran. This is totally and utterly unacceptable.” “A British-flagged oil tanker remains in Iranian ...
“This is a strong message, I think, that our values must guide our foreign policy.” On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representative passed three resolutions to block President Donald Trump’s plan to sell precision-guided munitions ...
If the JCPoA can be salvaged, the world may avoid war in Iran. “Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million liters of ‘smuggled fuel,’ state news agency Press TV said ...
There are signs of a new tanker war in the Persian Gulf, with Britain joining a coalition that wants a war with Iran. The standoff between the U.S. and Iran is now developing into a ...
A potential conflict with Iran warms up but a peaceful settlement is still possible. “Iran on Friday demanded the British navy release an Iranian oil tanker seized last week off Gibraltar, accusing London of playing ...
“Iran’s latest expansion of its nuclear program will lead to further isolation and sanctions.” On Sunday, July 7, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Secretary Abbas Araqchi told reporters in a press conference that Tehran would produce uranium ...
“Japan can help in easing the ongoing tension between Iran and America…. As a goodwill gesture, America should either lift the unjust oil sanctions or extend the waivers or suspend them.” Japan is willing to ...