Iran

2020 Campaign 10/22/20, 03:50

Both Iran and Russia have obtained U.S. voter information and are attempting to influence public opinion, U.S. Intelligence officials warned in a rare news conference on Wednesday night, Oct. 21. The warning came from the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who said the voter data information obtained by these countries ...

Middle East 10/16/20, 19:15

During the current censorship on social networks, Twitter allows accounts associated with regimes such as China or Iran, which are criticized for repressing individual freedoms, to publish content. Fox News reported on the counterproductive measure imposed by the social network against a revealing New York Post report that ended up being ...

South America 08/15/20, 12:58

The United States managed to intercept and divert four tankers thus thwarting another attempt by Venezuela's dictator, Nicolás Maduro, to import oil from Iran in violation of the sanctions imposed on his regime. U.S. Judge Jeb Boasberg issued the order to seize more than 1.1 million barrels of petroleum transported on ...

2020 Campaign 08/08/20, 17:46

The counterintelligence report issued Friday by William Evanina, director of the National Center for Counterintelligence and Security (NCSC), reported the latest foreign interference in the U.S. election process. It points to China, Russia, and Iran's intentions as the main threats to transparency in the 2020 election campaign. According to the report, both ...

South America 05/21/20, 12:52

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of supporting the Iranian regime in its sale of arms to Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, paid for with the gold smuggled from Venezuela. To further tighten sanctions against the Iranian and Venezuelan regimes, the U.S. State Department on May ...

Politics 05/07/20, 13:32

President Donald Trump has vetoed legislation seeking to limit his ability to order military action against Iran, saying the prohibition would “endanger the lives of American citizens and brave service members.” “I am returning herewith without my approval S.J. Res. 68, a joint resolution that purports to direct the President to ...

Middle East 04/29/20, 12:54

Tanker Tracking reported that Iran tripled its oil deliveries to Syria, defying export restrictions imposed by the United States and the European Union. Tanker Tracking satellite-tracked the large tanker that left Iran and docked at the Port of Baniyas in Tartous Governorate, Syria, according to an April 28 tweet. https://twitter.com/TankerTrackers/status/1255067426791870464 Syria has now ...

Middle East 03/27/20, 13:02

Iran's theocratic regime refuses to release several Christians imprisoned for exercising their right to religious freedom, even though it has released 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Part) Virus outbreak. "We at Article18 ask for the immediate and unconditional release of all Christians detained on spurious charges ...

Middle East 03/20/20, 12:09

On Thursday, March 19, the Iranian Ministry of Health reported that every 10 minutes a person died from the CCP Virus (Chinese Communist Party virus). So far, the number of deaths in the Middle East country has reached 1,284. Through his Twitter account, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur wrote, "According to ...

U.S. 03/10/20, 05:31

Iran is falling on a double-edged sword, escalating coronavirus infections and deaths, and then the plummeting price of oil on the world markets. It appears to be a no-win situation, and Iran hasn’t seen such a drop in the price of oil since the U.S. invasion of Kuwait in 1991. ...

Middle East 03/03/20, 06:30

As Iran scrambles to contain the coronavirus, it has added another high official to the death toll. A top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died from the coronavirus pandemic. Iran confirmed the death of Mohammad Mirmohammadi, a senior adviser to the ayatollah on March 2. The Iranian Health ...

Middle East 02/28/20, 05:19

Several Iranian high-ranking officials from President Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet have taken ill with the COVID-19 coronavirus, including Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar. Ebtekar is better known to Americans as "Mother Mary," the spokeswoman of the hostage-takers during the 444-day Iran hostage crisis. Ebtekar is better known to Americans ...

Middle East 02/25/20, 07:54

As Iran struggles to contain the novel coronavirus, fears are spreading across the Middle East as millions of pilgrims make the trek each year to visit Shiite holy sites in Iran and Iraq. On Saturday, Feb. 22, Iraq closed its border with Iran in the hope of containing the virus, as ...

Politics 01/31/20, 05:26

The House on Thursday, Jan. 30, passed two measures seeking to pull war powers back from President Donald Trump, a move he claimed would make it harder for a U.S president to defend the country. The first piece of legislation, known as the No War Against Iran Act, would block funding ...

Middle East 01/25/20, 12:41

The Iranian regime is blaming the Trump administration for closing down the internet domains of one of its main propaganda mouthpieces. The Fars News Agency, which has close ties to the ruling regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the U.S. Treasury Department shut down international access to its website ...

Middle East 01/21/20, 00:45

Social network users post videos and photos of citizens who continue to protest against corruption in their country and Iran's interference in internal affairs. "Jan 20 - Baghdad, #Iraq. Al Tayaran Square. Security forces are firing tear gas into crowds of demonstrators,” human rights defender Heshmat Alavi posted a tweet that ...

Middle East 01/18/20, 17:25

President Donald Trump on Friday, Jan. 17, said Iranian leaders “should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!” instead of leading the country toward ruin. President Trump made his suggestion after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Trump administration merely pretends to back Iranian people, but would “stab them in ...

U.S. 01/17/20, 19:15

President Trump, as U.S. commander-in-chief and leader of the free world, “leads from a standpoint of strength,” Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart in an exclusive interview on Thursday, Jan. 16. Speaking with Pence as he traveled from Joint Base Andrews in the D.C. suburbs on Air Force Two, and then ...

U.S. 01/15/20, 17:49

President Donald Trump on Saturday, Jan. 11,  expressed his solidarity with the Iranian demonstrators who took to the streets to demand the renunciation of Ali Khamenei, after the Iranian regime admitted shooting down a commercial airliner carrying dozens of Iranian citizens. That night, President Trump wrote a tweet in Persian, ...

Middle East 01/15/20, 10:39

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard arrested the person who posted the video of the Ukrainian plane shot down by a missile, which killed 176 people, according to Business Insider. After denying guilt for the tragedy for several days, Iran was forced to admit it, yet is criticized for not offering an apology ...