Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami blamed Washington, DC’s “conspiracies” against the Islamic Revolution of 1979 for the emergence of Islamic State (Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) terrorism in Syria and Iraq, where Iran has a strong presence, in remarks Sunday.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearing a lawsuit Monday filed by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the United States in July for re-imposing sanctions against Tehran following President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8.
Officials in Saudi Arabia have yet to confirm or deny reports this week that Sheikh Dr. Saleh bin Mohammed Al Talib, imam and preacher of the Grand Holy Mosque on Mecca, has been arrested.
The pressure imposed on Iran’s economy by U.S. sanctions and the ceaseless threat of regime repression have led many in the nation’s middle class to feel “imprisoned in the country,” an unnamed Iranian told the Associated Press Thursday as part of a series of interviews in the capital, Tehran.
Sam El Hassani, also known as “Samantha Sally,” 32, an American woman and former resident of Elkhart, Indiana, was charged on Wednesday with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) after leaving with her Moroccan husband to Syria.
Taliban terrorists killed at least 35 Afghan soldiers and nine policemen after they attacked a military outpost in the country’s northern Baghlan province early Wednesday morning.
A prominent Chinese news anchor for China Central Television (CCTV) is suing social media users for sharing reports of allegations of sexual harassment against him, state media reported on Wednesday.
San Francisco’s Department of Public Works has announced that it is launching a “poop patrol” next month, and a soft launch this week, to help rid the city’s streets of human feces.
A subconscious therapy that was developed in Israel has been used to help Israeli Defense Force (IDF) veterans overcome their post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The Chinese economy continues to show signs of cooling as the trade war between the nation and the United States heats up.
Ahn Hee-jung, the former governor of South Korea’s South Chungcheong province and a one-time presidential contender, was acquitted of sexual assault by coercion by the Seoul Western District Court on Tuesday in what became known as one of the highest profile cases to emerge from the #MeToo movement in the peninsula.
A new sexual identity has surfaced in the Bay Area, known as “asexual.” The individuals who identify with this orientation say do not have sexual attraction to other people.
Because Washington, DC, has not yet implemented new sanctions against Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet ordered retaliatory sanctions against the United States, although the Russian Foreign Ministry said it is working on tit-for-tat retaliatory measures.
Leaders of five Caspian Sea nations — Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan — reportedly signed a historic agreement on Sunday that aims to settle a longstanding dispute over ownership of oil and gas reserves on the landlocked body of water.
The judge overseeing the sentencing for the two men charged with the deaths of 36 people in the infamous Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland in December 2016 tossed their plea deal on Friday, leaving the men to face trial and potential life sentences instead of the six and nine year sentences they had initially been given.
On August 16, some of Hollywood’s most powerful figures will attend a fundraiser for Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Gain Newsom on the lot of Universal Studios.
An anonymous whistleblower has sent a package to Governor Jerry Brown containing pictures allegedly showing senior California Lottery leaders behaving in a lewd manner, including one man placing his head up a woman’s shirt, at a Southern California piano bar. It is the second such missive in two years.
A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane, which was carrying a CNN news team on board Friday, flew past a series of artificial islands known as the Spratly Chain in the South China Sea. The plane reportedly received at least six separate warnings from the Chinese military to leave the area.
Human trafficking, a form of modern slavery, has existed for thousands of years and is still a serious problem in many countries throughout the world, particularly with the resurgence of extremist groups like the Islamic State. This year’s Trafficking in Person’s (TIP) report, released by the State Department, is arguably stronger than it has been in previous years and is providing renewed hope for non-profits that are seeking to end these heinous crimes against humanity.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned on Wednesday that ongoing unrest in Iran, amplified by recently reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic could “boost radical and fundamentalist forces.”
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, has earned the praise of officials in Yemen who are saying the move has directly resulted in Iran’s diminished role there.
The United States Navy announced this week that they intend to bring cyber officers in at mid-grade levels to ensure that they are able to come and go between the private and public sector and maintain a constant stream of knowledge in the increasingly vital field.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s relatively “moderate” Labor Minister Ali “Ebad” Rabiei was impeached by 129 to 243 votes on Wednesday, in what appears to be a win for the Islamic Republic’s hardliners as the nation grapples with a deepening economic problems, unemployment and a slew of sanctions Rouhani has been blamed for.
Actor, immigrant, and Republican congressional candidate Antonio Sabato, Jr. said in a video posted by the Daily Caller that he fully supports President Donald Trump’s border wall along the United States-Mexico border.
Iran’s former ambassador to Germany, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, made an argument on Ohio-based talk show Going Global with David Delgado on Monday evening that regime change is truly the only option for the Islamic Republic, because the nation will not change its behavior and “behave like a normal country” to have sanctions removed, as United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Trump administration has suggested.
Ingrid Mueller, one of the co-founders of “Latinas for Trump” withstood hecklers and constant interruptions at a meeting of the West Hollywood City Council Monday evening as she opposed the removal of President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Monday asked the U.S. to drop sanctions in light of the nation’s good faith gestures of returning the remains of American troops killed in the 1950-1953 Korean War, and because North Korea has ostensibly ended nuclear weapons testing.
Iran’s Central Bank lifted a ban on exchange offices on Monday, allowing them to bring in much-needed hard currencies ahead of the official reimposition of sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s automotive sector, gold, and other key metals by the United States.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it is possible for sanctions on Iran that were reimposed Monday to be lifted, but noted that it will take “enormous change” by the Islamic Republic, which must “behave like a normal country.”
Construction has reportedly begun on a stainless steel wire net that will help prevent suicides on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, which is one of the world’s leading spot for suicides.
A self-identified “third-generation Palestinian refugee” and student at Stanford University who, last month, threatened to “physically fight” against “Zionist students” after Israel passed a law recognize Israel as a Jewish nation-stae, has announced that he will resign from his post as a residential assistant and issued an apology where he blamed “trans-generational trauma” for his initial statement.
IIran has been looking to China to salvage what remains of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday re-emphasized the need for China’s help.
The widespread economic protests that struck major Iranian cities at the beginning of this week, following protests beginning on December 28 over the Islamic Republic’s foreign adventurism, finally reached Iran’s capital city Tehran on Thursday.
Former Democratic President Barack Obama endorsed fellow Democrat Gavin Newsom for governor of California on Wednesday and praised him for being “the first to recognize the right to marry who you love” when he briefly legalized gay marriage in 2004, during his time as mayor of San Francisco.
United States officials told media Wednesday that the naval fleet of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is planning to place 100 gunboats in the Persian Gulf within the next 48 hours to practice “swarm” tactics, an exercise that is usually reserved for the fall.
Turkey’s currency, the lira, plunged to a record low on Wednesday and continued to fall Thursday following the imposition of sanctions by the United States on two Turkish officials for their roles in the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Tuesday that sanctions against Iran will not work and urged the United States to instead “try respect” for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, that President Donald Trump exited on May 8.
Hundreds of Iranians in Iran’s central city Isfahan joined a street protest on Tuesday to denounce the Islamic Republic’s handling of the nation’s economic problems, compacted by their currency reaching a second record low to surpassing 100,000 rials per one U.S. dollar.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old “democratic socialist” who defeated a 10-term Democratic incumbent in New York’s June primary, made waves with her fellow progressives in San Francisco’s Mission District Tuesday night as she described her plans to provide free Medicare and college for all.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu on Wednesday over their leading roles in the arrest and detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
