Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week that that Islamic Republic’s ruling system has lost its legitimacy and demanded “fundamental reforms,” saying its leaders should be replaced through free and fair presidential elections.
In a curious role reversal, a leading prelate of the Russian Orthodox Church has accused the United States of “direct interference” in Russia’s elections by circulating the so-called “Kremlin list” prepared by the U.S. Treasury Department.
The United States Treasury Department revealed new estimates last week that show the country set to double borrowing in the current fiscal year, a total $995 billion that would nearly double last fiscal year’s $519 billion.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has officially deemed as terrorists six jihadists accused of lending support to the Afghan Taliban and its al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, two deadly groups allegedly harbored by Pakistan.
A Reuters exclusive on Thursday quoted three sources inside Western European intelligence agencies who said North Korea shipped coal to Russia in 2017 in a probable violation of U.N. sanctions.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions against nine entities, 16 individuals, and six ocean vessels related to North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction, and efforts to circumvent sanctions imposed by the United Nations against that program.
Protesters in Iran thanked President Donald Trump for his vocal support for their cause in a message published this weekend, in which they also called on him to impose stronger sanctions, including for human rights abuses, on Iran’s regime.
According to the Iranian judiciary, around 456 people remain in jail after the crackdown against the recent popular uprising, following the release of 440 “arrested rioters” over the past few days. The judiciary counted 25 deaths during the uprising, blaming them entirely on demonstrators while laughably claiming that government security forces fired no shots because they were “ordered not to use their weapons.”
President Donald Trump’s decision to keep the United States in the Iran nuclear deal on Friday was coupled with a warning to his European allies: “Fix the deal’s disastrous flaws, or the United States will withdraw.”
Videos have surfaced of Iranian parents protesting outside of Iran’s Evin Prison, some setting up encampments and confronting police, in defense of individuals arrested for protesting in the past two weeks.
WASHINGTON, DC – Senior administration officials announced on Friday that President Donald Trump will waive, once more, the nuclear sanctions that the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) require so that the United States can remain in the Iran deal.
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Thursday he expected President Donald Trump to announce new sanctions against Iran, as the European Union urged Trump to endorse the nuclear agreement.
Treasury’s new report shows that boosting GDP growth to 2.9 percent would generate more revenue than is lost to tax cuts.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions this week on 13 entities believed to do business with North Korea, including four Chinese companies and one Chinese citizen.
Nineteen members of Congress published a letter criticizing Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for omitting Hamas from the list of named terrorist groups whose financing Qatar has agreed to combat.
The United States announced regulation changes on Wednesday to its travel policy regarding Cuba, U.S. administration officials told reporters, in an effort to implement President Donald Trump’s policy of holding the communist regime accountable for its human rights violations.
The number of dual American and foreign nationals found skirting United States sanctions law to conduct business in Iran is growing, raising questions regarding how many more such cases exist and how the Trump administration will work toward limiting their access to Iran.
Less than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Treasury sanctioned Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed, “Iranians–boys, girls, men, women–are ALL IRGC.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he has authorized the U.S. Department of Treasury to sanction Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under terrorism Executive Order 13224; a move the leader of the free world said was “long overdue.”
Mexico’s Supreme Court moved to help alleged cartel fronts whose assets frozen by ruling the actions unconstitutional. The decision opens the door for cartel-connected companies to fight for their properties.
At a White House news conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said military strikes are not the preferred solution for North Korea but warned that the military option will be “devastating” if he feels compelled to authorize it.
The Inspector General for Tax Administration has discovered that under Commissioner John Koskinen, the Internal Revenue Service re-hired 212 employees it had previously fired for offenses including tax evasion, theft, and abuse of taxpayer data.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a new round of sanctions against Chinese and Russian individuals and corporate entities for supporting North Korea’s nuclear bomb and missile programs.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says there is “zero chance” Congress will allow the country to default on its debts by voting to not increase the borrowing limit.
TEL AVIV – Iran is constructing a weapons factory for long-range rockets in northwest Syria, Israeli media reported Tuesday.
A court ordered release of thousands of formerly confidential documents has revealed the truth about the government seizing GSE profits.
Not long after announcing that it would certify Iran’s ongoing compliance with the JCPOA or “nuclear deal,” the Trump administration announced new sanctions against Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin described as “malign activity.”
Special interest groups have been falsely claiming for several months that the Obama administration was diverting the profits of the mortgage-finance giants to providing funding for portions of Obamacare.
President Donald Trump previewed a major announcement on tax reform next week, as he signed a series of executive orders and spoke to reporters at the Treasury Department
Earlier this week, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson asked a guest on his show if it were true that the United States government has been “looting” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The New York Times (NYT) had no qualms allowing the vice-president of Venezuela to blast the President Donald Trump’s administration in a full-page open letter published after the U.S. Treasury designated him a drug trafficking kingpin.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is urging Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling “at the first opportunity.”
Guatemalan Raúl Arturo Contreras, known as “dead” or “skeleton” in his country’s slang, will soon be a free man after serving 18 months and paying a $100 fine for being part of cocaine trafficking network linked to Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah.
The United States Department of Treasury has designated Venezuela’s vice president, Tareck el Aissami, a “Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker” for engaging in drug deals throughout the Western Hemisphere. Multiple reports in the past decade have tied El Aissami to groups as varied as the Mexican Zetas cartel and Hezbollah.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has formally refused to answer questions from Congress about the Obama Administration’s huge cash payments to Iran. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) described Lynch’s response as “unacceptable,” and said she has chosen to “essentially plead the Fifth.”
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee told Breitbart News that he is committed to abolish permanently the federal tax on the property of the deceased, or the ‘Death Tax.’
A government watchdog said Thursday that one of the programs of Obamacare under the Obama administration was making illegal payments to its insurers instead of the U.S. Treasury.
NEW YORK — The Treasury Department on Saturday confirmed that it wire transferred at least two separate payments to Iran in the last 14 months.
A Republican Louisiana congressman filed a privileged motion Tuesday that calls for a vote on the House floor on whether to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for High Crimes and Misdemeanors in the next two legislative days. “The American people
On Tuesday, the Obama administration finally admitted something its critics had long suspected: The entire $1.7 billion tribute paid to Iran was tendered in cash — not just the initial $400 million infamously shipped to the Iranians in a cargo plane — at the same moment four American hostages were released.
