The Iranian government’s admission on Saturday that it shot down a Ukrainian commercial airliner triggered widespread protests nationwide attended by hundreds chanting slogans against the regime and the former head of its foreign terrorist organization, Qasem Soleimani.
A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Iran early Wednesday morning, miles from its Bushehr nuclear power plant.
JERUSALEM — Iran this morning claimed it is not seeking escalation or war. This after crossing all red lines by sending militias to attack our embassy in Iraq and now launching ballistic missiles at U.S. forces.
Several Democrat 2020 candidates reacted to the news of Iran launching over a dozen ballistic missiles targeting U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq on Tuesday, offering thoughts and prayers — a response typically mocked by those within their own party.
Iran began to launch over a dozen ballistic missiles targeting U.S. airbases in Iraq on Tuesday, U.S. officials confirmed.
The Communist Party of China chided America on Friday for the elimination of Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani via airstrike, urging the United States to “remain calm” and respect “Iraq’s sovereignty,” but not mentioning Iran at all.
Lest anyone be in any doubt about Iran’s continued hostile feelings towards “great satan” America, a spokesman on Friday called U.S. foreign policy “delusional” and its chief diplomat a “loudspeaker for bullying, deceit and disdain.”
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday blamed the United States and other “foreigners” for “interference in Iran’s internal affairs” for supporting the recent protests over gasoline price increases. Meanwhile, at a chemical weapons conference in The Hague, Iran’s representative denounced the U.S. as a threat to global security.
The Intercept and the New York Times on Monday published a lengthy examination of leaked Iranian intelligence cables that shed new light on how thoroughly Iran dominates the politics of Iraq, with much of the dirtiest work done by the commander of Iran’s notorious Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Iran has special “hidden” military powers it is ready to unleash at any moment on an unsuspecting world, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leader, Major General Hossein Salami, revealed on Saturday.
The U.S. Treasury is nothing more than a “jail warden”, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lamented Thursday, a day after Washington imposed fresh sanctions designed to end the illicit smuggling of oil by Iran shipping interests.
A large Iranian-registered shipping network created solely to transport and obfuscate the sale of Iran oil has been targeted with fresh sanctions by the Trump administration.
TEL AVIV — Iran is constructing a new military facility in Syria that can house thousands of soldiers, Fox News reported citing multiple Western intelligence sources.
An Iranian rocket that was reportedly carrying a telecommunications satellite blew up on the launch pad at Imam Khomeini Space Center on Thursday, marking Iran’s third failed satellite launch of the year.
TEL AVIV – The IDF on Monday identified two of the people killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Saturday as Lebanese nationals who underwent training in Iran and Syria to operate explosive drones.
TEL AVIV – Israel had been following the killer drones that Iran planned to use against it on Saturday night since they were flown into Syria from Tehran several weeks ago along with four members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IDF said Sunday.
Western intelligence sources told Fox News on Tuesday that Iran has dispatched another oil tanker to Syria in defiance of U.S. sanctions. Meanwhile, the first sanctions-busting ship was leased to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in another apparent gesture of defiance to the United States.
Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, a deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said in a speech on Tuesday that his organization is stronger than ever after the U.S. government designated it a foreign terrorist organization.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – In an audio recording released by a maritime security risk firm, a British naval officer can be heard saying that the transit of a British-flagged vessel through the Strait of Hormuz must not be impaired under international law, just before it is seized by Iranian forces.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A powerful council in Iran said Saturday the country’s seizure of a British oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz was in response to Britain’s role in impounding an Iranian supertanker two weeks earlier.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump backed the United Kingdom after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, saying the Islamic Republic is in “big trouble”.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced the seizure of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
After a week of insisting it merely assisted a vessel in distress by bringing it to a safe harbor, Iran on Thursday admitted its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States – seized a foreign oil tanker and took its crew prisoner.
A report from i24 News on Tuesday evening claimed Iranian officials secretly met with representatives of the U.S. government in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iran should not “mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness” U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Sunday.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) released vision Friday morning that confirms a U.S. Navy Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (or BAMS-D) ISR Global Hawk drone was lost to an Iranian surface-to-air missile.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed visiting Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s suggestion of diplomacy with the United States, stating that President Donald Trump did not “deserve” the courtesy, Iranian media reported on Thursday local time.
Force met by force meant Iran decided to “step back and recalculate” after readying to attack U.S. naval assets in the Persian Gulf, the top commander of American forces in the Mideast said Thursday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that negotiations with the United States might be possible if Washington lifts sanctions against Iran.
A U.S. Navy force gathering in the Persian Gulf could be entirely destroyed with just one missile, an Iranian cleric warned late Friday.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday appointed a new leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the U.S. recently designated a foreign terrorist organization.
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei appointed General Hossein Salami the new head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday, citing the need for a shake-up of the organization’s high command.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Moussavi claimed Wednesday that the world longs to see change in the “U.S. regime nature,” a response to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging “a change in the nature and the behavior of the Islamic Republic of Iran” as a result of new U.S. sanctions.
Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram announced on Tuesday it blocked the accounts of numerous Iranian officials, including commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in compliance with U.S. sanctions.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper published a commentary Sunday that urged Iran to withdraw from Syria and Yemen in response to America’s State Department designating its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization last week.
The leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah on Wednesday called the U.S. decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization “stupidity,” warning it stands ready to mount a response.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran, the highest-ranking branch of the nation’s military, issued a statement vowing to “spare no effort” in fighting the U.S. military on Tuesday, suggesting the potential of a planned attack against Washington.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani declared the United States the “world’s leading terrorist” in remarks Tuesday responding to President Donald Trump’s designation of the nation’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday succeeded in officially labeling Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), a move his administration has reportedly considered soon after taking office in 2017 as part of efforts to neutralize Tehran’s influence and constrain its aggression in the Middle East and beyond.
Iran’s leading security apparatus on Monday designated the U.S. military a “terrorist organization” in response to the Trump administration’s decision to label the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terror organization.
