The State Department announced on Thursday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio “took action this week to revoke the privilege of Iranian senior officials and their family members to be in the United States,” as a consequence of Iran’s bloody crackdown on protesters earlier this month.
The daughter of a top Iranian official was quietly ousted from her position at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, following heavy backlash over her employment.
Iranian-American activists are circulating online petitions asking the U.S. to deport relatives of senior Iranian regime officials.
“The Iranian nation defeated the U.S.,” declared Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisting the U.S. must “be held accountable.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sweeping new sanctions Thursday on senior Iranian officials and regime-linked financial networks, saying Tehran’s ruling elite are “rats fleeing the ship” as they frantically wire tens of millions of dollars out of the country amid mounting unrest.
Iran will teach “delusional” and “arrogant” President Donald Trump a “lesson that will never be forgotten,” warned Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who vowed U.S. forces would be “burned by the fire of Iran’s defenders” while insisting “we are your opponent.”
Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Saturday that his agency believes “the majority” of Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium survived bombing runs from Israel and the United States in June.
Iranian media on Friday reported the deaths of Hossein Sheikholeslam, formerly ambassador to Syria and an adviser to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and Mohammed Haj Abolghasemi, an intelligence officer and commander in Iran’s brutal Basij paramilitary unit, a division of the designated terrorist organization known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The Iranian military on Tuesday unveiled three “advanced precision-guided smart bombs” it claims can be mounted on drone aircraft. According to Iranian media, all three of the weapons are domestically produced.
Covert U.S. forces could be driving the “suspicious” tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman to pile pressure on Tehran, Iran’s parliament speaker hinted Sunday.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker branded President Donald Trump “feeble-minded” over Monday’s transfer of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, calling for combined resistance from the Palestinians and the international community to America’s move.
Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani claimed this week that an alleged reference to “shithole countries” by President Donald Trump, referring to Haiti and some African nations, would usher in “an epoch of modern savagery.”
Iran’s parliament voted Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, according to state-run media.
TEL AVIV – All Saudi Arabia’s actions end up benefiting Israel, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament on Tuesday told a visiting group of ambassadors from Muslim nations in Tehran.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) linked the United States’ meeting with leaders of Saudi Arabia — which has “constantly been supporting” terrorists — to the deadly double terrorist attacks carried out by the Islamic State (Daesh) in Tehran Wednesday morning.
Iranian parliamentarians appeared to blame the United States and Saudi Arabia for the deadly twin Ramadan terrorist attacks carried out by the Islamic State early Wednesday morning in Tehran, which claimed 12 lives and injured at least 42 others.
On Wednesday morning, the Islamic State carried out an unprecedented double terrorist attack on Iran’s Parliament building and the iconic shrine of the late founder of the Islamic Republic and leader of the 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leaving at least 12 people dead and 42 others injured.
Speaking in an interview with Iran’s Al Alam TV on Monday, Iranian Brigadier Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said the “Zionist regime’s” collapse may happen in less than 25 years.
