Senior U.S. military officials warned key Middle East allies on Friday to prepare for a possible strike on Iran as multiple reports said Washington and Jerusalem now view military action as decided, with one source saying the only remaining question is timing, not whether an attack will occur.
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.
Iranian security forces have unleashed a sweeping mass-arrest campaign in recent days in a calculated bid to deter the revival of nationwide protests — a move unfolding as President Donald Trump escalates pressure on the theocratic regime.
President Trump spoke with Breitbart News about leftist media’s reaction to the new Melania documentary during the red carpet world premiere at the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Iran’s most legendary pop icon, Googoosh — known to millions as the “Voice of Iran,” silenced after the 1979 Islamic Revolution — urged President Donald Trump to “honor his words” and provide decisive support to the Iranian people as the clerical regime unleashed what she described as a nationwide slaughter aimed at crushing an uprising demanding the regime’s overthrow.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed this week that three men deported to Iran recently, found to have entered America illegally, were “known or suspected” members of the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The European Union appeared poised Thursday to sanction the IRGC over Tehran´s deadly crackdown on nationwide protests.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Tuesday that the Ninth Air Force will conduct a “multi-day readiness exercise” in the Middle East to “demonstrate the ability to deploy, disperse, and sustain combat airpower.” One place they could soon be called upon to disperse airpower is Iran.
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT, using its Turkish acronym) and local counter-terrorism police launched coordinated raids in five provinces this week, arresting six individuals suspected of spying for Iran.
President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that “a massive armada” led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is moving toward Iran and that the regime’s “time is running out” to make a nuclear deal — or face a U.S. strike far worse than the one carried out last summer.
New polling conducted by J.L. Partners provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release shows Americans, especially Republicans, by and large support toppling the regime in Iran but are unwilling to put any American lives at risk to do so.
President Donald Trump has been briefed on U.S. intelligence assessments describing Iran’s regime as being in its weakest position since the 1979 revolution, citing internal dissent, economic collapse, and growing instability, according to officials familiar with the briefings.
The Iranian regime said on Sunday that it would accept a group of deportees from the United States who have been held for months in U.S. immigration detention centers.
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.
The Houthi terrorists of Yemen published an ominous video on Monday showing a ship on fire, captioned simply with the word “soon.”
CIA Director John Ratcliffe has emerged as President Donald Trump’s “quiet hammer,” a source close to the White House told Breitbart News for an in-depth profile of the world’s premier spy agency in the first year back in office for Trump.
The Iranian Islamist regime debuted a billboard in the heart of Tehran this weekend with images of destroyed fighter jets on an aircraft carrier forming an American flag, threatening the destruction of the U.S. military.
A U.S. aircraft carrier strike force is now in the Central Command region of the Middle East, the news coming as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has tried to violently end nationwide protests against this repressive regime.
Following rising concerns over a possible U.S. military strike, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has relocated to a heavily fortified underground compound in Tehran, according to reports, which cited sources close to the regime who revealed his son now oversees day-to-day operations.
A two-day crackdown that new reporting says killed as many as 36,500 Iranians — a death toll placing it among the deadliest short-term mass killings documented in modern history — followed an order by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to mercilessly crush nationwide protests “by any means necessary,” including accounts of wounded civilians executed inside hospitals, living victims stuffed in body bags, and a surgeon who described the scenes as a “nightmare” unlike anything he had seen.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated that, when it comes to Iran, “the generals have told us that, short of sending in a massive number of troops, it will be another Iraq.” Kennedy also
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that in order to make the Iranian regime fall, you would have to ramp up sanctions on the country, since “we’re still letting them sell oil to China,”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while he doesn’t love everything about the ouster of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, he doesn’t hate all of it and he doesn’t dislike the ousting of a dictator
President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday that an “armada” of American warships is heading for Iran, and implied that military force could be on the table if the regime in Tehran continues murdering its own people to stay in power.
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee stated that while whether Iran should have regime change is up to President Donald Trump, the President has “made it clear the murder, the slaughter, the atrocities
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an opposition group headquartered overseas, said on Wednesday it has received reports of sexual assault against teenage protesters who were taken prisoner during the regime’s brutal crackdown on demonstrations this month.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said President Trump’s efforts to secure Greenland “could not happen to a more deserving continent.”
Iranian-American activists are circulating online petitions asking the U.S. to deport relatives of senior Iranian regime officials.
Residents of Iran’s capital of Tehran told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on Monday that the city remains under “virtual martial law” after last week’s murderous crackdown on protesters, with a heavy security presence rolling through the largely-deserted streets.
Iran’s judiciary declared it will “pursue” and “punish” President Donald Trump and leaders of the “Zionist regime” for “crimes” linked to fomenting protests, according to the Islamic Republic’s judiciary chief who accused Washington and Jerusalem of backing “terrorists.”
An unnamed Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday that at least 5,000 people were killed during the regime crackdown on protests last week.
President of Argentina Javier Milei signed a decree this weekend designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s (IRGC) Quds Force a terrorist organization.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for Iran’s crises, accusing Washington of imposing “inhumane” sanctions while warning that any challenge to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would amount to an “all-out war” against the Iranian nation.
Pink Floyd co-founder Rogers Waters defended the murderous regime in Iran, one week after defending former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, calling claims that Iran has been a leading sponsor of terrorism around the world “nonsense.”
“The Iranian nation defeated the U.S.,” declared Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisting the U.S. must “be held accountable.”
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a high-ranking member of the Iranian theocracy who sits on several of its highest governing bodies, on Friday demanded the execution of protesters and made threats against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Thursday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued there were instances where “discriminate application” of the U.S. military was necessary to achieve American national interests.
Madonna came out swinging for the protesters in Iran on Thursday, expressing gratitude for the freedom she enjoys in the United States.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday claimed the massive nationwide uprising against the regime he serves was an “Israeli plot” carried out by “ISIS-style terrorist operations,” and the regime has defeated these “terrorists” after three days of pitched battle.
The U.S. has taken some steps across the Middle East over the past few days that could indicate preparations for an operation against Iran, although they could also be acts of simple prudence or feints.
