DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility, the government said on Monday, breaching a 2015 nuclear pact with major powers and possibly complicating efforts by U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to rejoin the deal. Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Iran’s arch foe Israel, said the move was aimed at […] More
Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Ilhan Omar (MN) are among a group of Democratic lawmakers calling on the Trump administration to end sanctions on Iran during the coronavirus pandemic. “I led a letter with and demanding this Administration end sanctions against Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Omar tweeted Tuesday. “These sanctions aren’t changing the […] More
The U.S. State Department shot down “inaccurate” reports claiming the Trump administration would soon be granting special sanctions exceptions to give Iran access to cash assets as it struggles to fight the coronavirus, according to information exclusively provided to the Washington Free Beacon. The United States had “agreed to grant sanctions waivers to some countries allowing […] More
The European Union is resisting Trump administration efforts to foster greater international coordination on holding Tehran accountable for its rising sponsorship of terrorism and expanding ballistic missile program, according to State Department documents viewed exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon. “The EU had no new [sanctions] designations in the second half of 2019,” the State Department […] More
Iran’s stockpiling of highly enriched uranium is raising new questions about the scope of its undisclosed nuclear work and the efficacy of soon-to-be-lifted restrictions on its missile program, which develops the primary vehicle to carry a nuclear payload, U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon. Iran has been blocking inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) […] More
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is being accused of holding contradictory views on Iran and Israel. At a news conference Wednesday, the Minnesota Democrat condemned the Trump administration’s planned sanctions against Iran, calling them “crippling” and asserting they would “starve the Iranian people. But critics noted she simultaneously supports the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, which promotes punitive actions against Israel. Trump addressed the […] More
Iraqi officials on Monday backed away from their threat to expel U.S. troops following the killing of Iranian terrorist mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani and some important Iraqi Shiite militia leaders. The tone in Baghdad appears to have changed after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened sanctions against Iraq and a draft letter announcing complete U.S. withdrawal […] More
The sanctions that Donald Trump slapped on Iran when he withdrew from the nuclear deal appear to be working as planned. Protests erupted in Iran after the government announced it was reducing fuel subsidies by 50 percent and instituting a rationing program. Two people were killed as the demonstrations got out of control in two […] More
President Trump announced Monday afternoon that he will soon issue an executive order imposing sanctions against Turkey for its “destabilizing” offensive in Syria, amid a bipartisan outcry over the president’s troop pullback earlier this month that endangered U.S.-aligned Kurdish forces. The sanctions followed the president’s Oct. 7 threat, when he warned that “if Turkey does anything that I, in my great […] More
On Saturday, President Trump announced that the White House is preparing an additional set of “major’ sanctions against Iran. He tweeted: “Iran cannot have Nuclear Weapons! Under the terrible Obama plan, they would have been on their way to Nuclear in a short number of years, and existing verification is not acceptable. We are putting […] More
Sen. Lindsey Graham says that he will push to have Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sanctioned if, in fact, the CIA report confirms that the Crown Prince ordered the death of Washington Post journalistJamal Khashoggi. “If the evidence is sufficient to conclude with high probability that MBS was complicit in this murder, then I will take steps to do […] More
Just days before President Trump’s sanctions are set to take place, Iran has done the unthinkable. In a bold and defiant move, Iran, for the first time in over a year, test-fired a ballistic missile. The test coincided with a large-scale navy exercise by the Iranian army. This story is developing. From Fox News EXCLUSIVE – For […] More
