Iran

Middle East 11/15/21, 02:37

Southern Iran was struck by two major earthquakes on Sunday, Nov. 14, killing at least one person, and terrified residents flocking to the streets.  The tremors of 6.3 and 6.4 magnitude of only one minute apart hit Bandar Abbas, the capital of Hormozgan province on Sunday afternoon, BNO News reported.  Both earthquakes ...

Middle East 11/03/21, 21:50

A non-profit organization denounced this Monday, Nov. 1, that the Iranian regime is using various methods to evade controls, doubled the sale of crude oil to China in violation of the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration that are still in force but that apparently President Biden is not enforcing ...

Middle East 10/05/21, 03:37

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan provide half of Afghanistan's electricity, with Iran contributing further supplies to the country's west. This year's drought has had an impact on domestic production, primarily at hydropower plants. Kabul is nearly entirely reliant on imported power from Central Asia as Afghanistan lacks a national power grid.After ...

Washington 10/03/21, 02:17

As the Biden administration is looking to resume a nuclear deal with Iran, its government on Saturday set out the first condition—unfreeze $10 billion of Tehran's frozen funds. The condition was issued indirectly via intermediaries at the United Nations, reports Reuters. "The Americans tried to contact us through different channels (at the ...

Middle East 09/12/21, 20:48

A pair of arm drones heading for Erbil International Airport of Iraq was shot down, the U.S. military said on Sept. 11. A U.S. official confirmed a counter-rocket known as the artillery and mortar system (C-RAM) struck down two explosive laden, and Iranian made, drones. One drone exploded inside the airport ...

Middle East 09/01/21, 15:47

Scores of Afghans can be seen moving west toward Afghanistan’s border with Iran after the U.S. forces withdrew from the country and subsequently the Taliban took control of Kabul. Breitbart citing a video shared by former Tolo News reporter Muslim Shirzad on Tuesday, Aug. 31, showed people, allegedly Afghans, were walking on ...

Middle East 08/02/21, 16:26

Both U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemned the Iranian regime for a drone attack on a commercial vessel sailing in the Sea of Oman on Thursday that killed two sailors. Last July 29, the Mercer Street, an oil tanker operated by the Israeli company ...

Middle East 07/01/21, 16:19

In a recent interview given to AFP, a senior Iranian official said that executing children who committed a crime does not represent a violation of human rights. Majid Tafreshi's statements were in response to criticism of the Iranian government by the United Nations. Tafreshi is a member of the High Council of ...

U.S. 06/27/21, 21:44

According to Fox News, the U.S. military launched a defensive airstrike on Sunday, June 27, against three Iranian militia facilities that were being used to launch and recover drones. At least one of the facilities was destroyed. John Kirby, Pentagon press secretary, confirmed that the strike targets were buildings used by ...

Middle East 06/25/21, 18:18

During a meeting between Israeli government officials with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Israel again expressed its total rejection of the Biden administration's intentions to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal abandoned by former President Trump in 2018.  Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi flew with his ...

Middle East 06/18/21, 15:59

Last week, on June 10, without consulting Congress, the Biden administration complied with Iran's demands and lifted sanctions on former Iranian officials and companies. Taking the pressure off the world's largest exporter of international terrorism. In this context, Republican congressmen demand details and explanations of the reasons that led to ...

Middle East 06/15/21, 16:04

In his final statement before the Knesset on Sunday June 13, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted President Biden's policy toward Iran, criticizing the Biden administration's efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal.“The new US administration requested that I save our disagreements on the Iran nuclear deal for behind ...

Middle East 06/03/21, 03:10

The Iranian navy's largest warship caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, June 2, the latest disaster to befall one of the country's ships in latest years as conflicts with the West have escalated. The fire broke out around 2:25 a.m., and firefighters attempted to put it ...

U.S. 05/15/21, 16:01

On Friday, May 14, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) gave out his opinion on the Biden administration's inaction in supporting Israel when Hamas sent a shower of rockets to its cities over this week.  “Where’s President Biden’s leadership? He’s more time negotiating to help Iran get towards a nuclear weapon, ...

Middle East 05/03/21, 17:47

On Sunday, May 2, the Biden administration refuted a claim by Iran's state television that the arch-foes had reached an agreement on a prisoner swap in exchange for the release of $7 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds held in other countries due to the US sanctions, Reuters reported. The report ...

U.S. 04/27/21, 04:39

John Kerry, the United States' Special Climate Envoy, dismissed claims that he told the Iranian foreign minister of Israeli operations in Syria while serving as Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Kerry called the allegations detailed in leaked audio obtained by several media outlets "unequivocally false" in a tweet, Fox News ...

U.S. 04/24/21, 03:46

Iran was elected to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations on Tuesday, reported Free Beacon. Iran is a frequent violator of women's rights. According to U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based human rights group, 43 member countries voted for the regime, including at least four Western and EU countries. ...

U.S. 04/22/21, 00:21

Members of the Republican Study Committee Caucus announced a bill to counter the Biden administration's policies on Iran, especially sanction removal, on Wednesday, April 21. At the RSC press conference announcing the Maximum Pressure Act in front of the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), the group's chair, said, “In the ...

U.S. 04/10/21, 03:00

The U.S. State Department declared that it is ready to lift sanctions against Iran to restore compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the formal term for the 2015 Iran agreement. "We are prepared to take the steps necessary to return to compliance with the JCPOA, including by lifting ...

Middle East 03/28/21, 15:01

Iran and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have signed a 25-year cooperation agreement despite the fact that both countries are still subject to U.S. sanctions. Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the CCP's Foreign Minister Wang Yi signed the agreement in Tehran on Saturday, March 27. Wang met with President Hassan ...