Tag: Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) Iran said Friday it seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a fresh escalation in confrontations in the strategic waterway that has become a flashpoint in tensions between Tehran…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Tracking data shows an oil tanker based in the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz drifted off into Iranian waters and stopped transmitting its location over…
Apparently Senator Jerry Moran is the only Kansas Republican willing to stand up to Saudi Arabia. Last week, Moran joined six other Senate Republicans in backing a resolution against President Trumps use of emergency powers…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran acknowledged today it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a year…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) As Iran prepares to surpass limits set by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, each step it takes narrows the time the countrys leaders would need to have…
Middle East policymakers in Washington these days should take some advice from that noted diplomat, Bob Dylan. His adage When you aint got nothing, you got nothing to lose is getting tested with the Trump…
Well, heres something new President Donald Trump, in reversing his own decision to attack multiple targets in Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. drone, exhibited a surprising level of restraint late…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks today with the Saudi king and crown prince after days of mounting tensions following the downing of a U.S drone last…
Sooner or later, Iran was going to be forced to change its tactics, but perhaps not in the way the United States intended. Ever since he withdrew the United States from an international nuclear agreement…
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. was cocked and loaded to retaliate against Iran for downing an unmanned American surveillance drone but he canceled the strikes minutes before they were to…
