Ahead of this year’s annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took the opportunity to once again blast Saudi Arabia over what is known as the “Mina Stampede,” which left nearly 800 Muslims dead in 2015.
Billionaire environmental activist and “Need to Impeach” founder Tom Steyer said Monday that President Donald Trump had committed “treason” for trusting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials about interfering in U.S. elections.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday the United States will consider waivers for some countries that need more time to stop importing Iranian oil to avoid disrupting global oil markets. Reuters, which reported his remarks, said they were embargoed for release until Monday.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed on Saturday that President Donald Trump does not know how to spell the name of his wife, First Lady Melania Trump.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the Middle East and Africa between July 19 and July 27 to sell that region Beijing’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project, a global infrastructure plan to give China control of the world’s great ports, roads, and railways.
Reality TV star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian is asking California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill, Assembly Bill 2550, that aims to protect the rights of female prison inmates.
The Iranian government claimed Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will “soon” head to Tehran to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the status of Syria’s civil war.
Video of a homeless man using drugs on a BART train in San Francisco last month has gone viral, raising concerns about the continued homeless crisis in the city.
Iran’s special envoy Ali Akbar Velayati said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Kremlin plans to invest up to $50 billion in Iran’s oil and gas sector, and noted that Russian firms could replace Western oil companies that have left or are leaving Iran to comply with President Donald Trump’s demands that nations stop importing Iranian oil by November 4 or face sanctions.
The Iranian government publicly flogged a young man, identified only as “M.R.”, 80 times on his back on Tuesday for committing the crime of drinking alcohol during a wedding ceremony when he was 15, over ten years ago.
The heads of intelligence services for Iran, Russia, China, and Pakistan discussed ways to combat the threat of the Islamic State in Afghanistan in a meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday.
A Taliban commander, identified as Hanzala, was reportedly killed in an explosion triggered by his own explosives in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Tuesday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated, in an interview with the National at the Fairmont Hotel in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, that “sanctions are returning” on Iran’s banking sector.
Contra Costa County has reportedly become the latest county in Northern California in the past month to sever its contract with ICE.
Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), who is seeking to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), is set to return to Los Angeles on Monday to raise money for his campaign at a fundraiser being held at the home of actress Nancy Stephens and director-producer Rick Rosenthal.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said getting North Korea to dismantle its nuclear and missiles programs “is a decades-long challenge” while speaking with troops on a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday.
Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri vowed on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic will “sell as much oil as we can” to protect its banking system, the financial lifeblood of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), while acknowledging that America-imposed sanctions would hurt Iran’s economy.
The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a Malaysia-based General Sales Agent (GSA) on Monday for collaborating with and acting on behalf of Iran’s government-operated and U.S.-sanctioned Mahan Air.
The Japanese government confirmed Monday that at least 126 people have died and approximately 90 are missing from the heavy rains, floods, and mudslides that have swept the island nation.
Thousands of Iranians in the nation’s south took to the streets Saturday with renewed protests against the Iranian government over water shortages and “chaotic” distribution of the little available, shortly before Iran defended its investments in proxy wars over supporting its own struggling population.
Republicans in the Golden State believe a ballot measure that would repeal Gov. Jerry Brown’s 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax, known as Proposition 6, could be the key to reviving their party’s fortunes in California — and to preventing Democrats from winning the key congressional races they need to win back control of the U.S. House in November.
Iran’s representative to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, reportedly pled on Thursday for President Donald Trump to “please stop” tweeting because his doing so has raised oil prices by at least $10.
A major medical association has backed out of holding its annual 15,000-attendee convention in San Francisco after a 20-pound bag of feces was dumped on a sidewalk in the city last week.
Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz – a key Gulf passage for shipments of commodities – over Washington threatening to sanction any country that fails to stop importing oil from the Islamic Republic by November 4.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) will not seek an endorsement from the California Democratic Party (CDP) for the second time.
The Netherlands announced on Friday that it expelled two Iranian embassy officials, but did not provide any clarifying information regarding why.
The European Commission voted on Wednesday to grant the European Investment Bank (EIB) the ability to invest money, as a loan, into U.S.-sanctioned Iran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was in Vienna on Wednesday to seek to secure what is left of the Iran nuclear deal.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will embark on an international visit to the United Arab Emirates and several Western-allied countries following his visit to North Korea this week, during which he will reportedly work to further isolate Iran.
Democrats Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and her challenger State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) are competing for a second time for their party’s endorsement in the state of California, with the general election a mere four months away.
The Iranian Army’s Ground Force Brigadier General Kiomars Heidari met with a delegation from China’s Ministry of National Defense Tuesday to discuss ways to boost defense ties between Tehran and Beijing. Both parties appeared to agree that the United States poses “the biggest threat to humanity.”
Sweden, which holds the United Nations Security Council’s rotating presidency, and Kuwait requested an emergency, closed-door meeting at the UN Security Council on Tuesday to complain that Israel and Jordan will not accept hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees displaced by Russian-backed bombings in southern Daraa, Syria.
Turkish state media published a column Tuesday blaming the “deliberate ignorance” among Iran’s ruling elite for triggering the series of recent protests throughout the Islamic Republic.
Derick Almena, 48, and Max Harris, 28, two men who were considerable responsible for the safety of the East Oakland warehouse dubbed “Ghost Ship,” where 36 people died during a ghastly December 2, 2016 blaze, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter charges on Tuesday.
Iranians and Arab-Iranians continued protests over the regime’s inaction over the quality of water in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province on Monday and the port city of Khorramshahr.
An Iranian diplomat and three other Iranians were arrested for planning to bomb the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)’s annual “Free Iran” rally which took place on Saturday in the Paris suburb of Villepinte and where several high-profile politicians including Rudy Giuliani spoke.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Monday the U.S. State Department’s claims against the Islamic Republic in its annual report on human trafficking were “baseless” and, instead, suggested that Washington is responsible for the expansion of human smuggling networks around the world.
Gay rights activists have begun circulating petitions to recall Vice Mayor Ted Hickman of Dixon, California, after he penned a column in the Independent Voice on Friday calling for July to be a celebration of “Straight Pride American Month,” or SPAM.
A conservative legislator in Iran’s parliament revealed on Sunday that police have arrested 129 people so far during protests at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar and outside the country’s Parliament over the past week. Protests continued into Monday as the nation’s water supplies dried up.
Calls for an Iran without its current “dictatorial regime” were met with strengthened hope during the annual “free Iran” rally held in Paris this past weekend by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled Paris-based Iranian opposition group allied with the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK).
