Iran

Joe Lieberman: Asking Pentagon For Strike Options Against Iran ‘Very Reasonable and Rational Thing’ to Do

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to comment Sunday on claims that the White House National Security Council asked the Pentagon last fall for options for a military strike against Iran, but former...

John Bolton Says Any Country in Doubt of US Support for Israel’s Self-Defense ‘Better Think About it Again’

National Security Advisor John Bolton, speaking in Jerusalem Sunday about Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, assured Israel of the administration’s unequivocal support for its right...

Trump: US Troops to Remain in Iraq, to Prevent ISIS Resurgence and ‘Watch Over Iran’

Addressing troops in Iraq on Wednesday, President Trump said the U.S. military presence in the country would continue beyond the Syria withdrawal, “to prevent an ISIS resurgence and to protect U.S. interests”...

Farrakhan to Trump: Your Mideast Policies, Not Iranian Chants, Will Lead to War And ‘End America As You Know It’

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, continuing his controversial visit to Iran Thursday, warned President Trump that U.S. policies in the Middle East, at the behest of Israel, “will end America as...

Pompeo: Iran Sanctions ‘Apply to Those Who Conduct Sanctionable Transactions’

The Trump administration is set to re-impose sanctions on Iran this week.

Farrakhan Tells Iranian Audience They Can be Victorious Over ‘Great Satan’

Visiting Iran on the eve of the reimposition of U.S. sanctions, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told students that if they persevere, they can be victorious over the foe they call “the Great Satan.”

CBS Paints Iran as Victim of ‘Bullying and Belligerent United States’

Reporting from Tehran for Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, correspondent Elizabeth Palmer bemoaned how new economic sanctions “have begun to bite” in Iran in the wake of the Trump administration withdrawing...

Honoring Military Personnel Killed in 1983 Hezbollah Terrorist Bombing, Trump Says ‘We Are Doing a Big Number on Iran Today’

President Trump paid tribute Thursday to the U.S. Marines, sailors and soldiers killed in a suicide bombing in Beirut 35 years ago, and won sustained applause from gathered families, veterans and commanders...

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon Reiterate Stance on ‘Foreign Occupation’ Exception For Terrorism

At a U.N. meeting in New York last week, delegates of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon made clear their insistence that actions taken to resist “foreign occupation” should not be equated with terrorism.

Pompeo: ‘Undermining US Policy as a Former Secretary of State Is Literally Unheard of’

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke out Friday about former Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempts to undermine President Donald Trump’s foreign policy with Iran, calling it “unseemly and unprecedented.”

Trump to Chair a UN Security Council Meeting on Iran; Rouhani May Be Present

“The world is watching.”  That’s the message the Trump administration wants to highlight by convening a U.N. Security Council meeting this month “to address Iran’s violations of international...