The United States’ sent Iran $400 million in debt plus $1.3 billion in interest, and the money was disbursed as a ransom payment for four American hostages of the Islamic regime, a top Iranian commander said Wednesday afternoon. Therefore, the U.S. paid the Iranian regime $425 million dollars per American hostage, according to the commander.
A tenured Kent State University professor is under federal investigation for alleged involvement with the Islamic State terrorist organization. Both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the matter.
With Iran set to receive tens of billions of dollars as part of its reported compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed upon in July, the regime will use its newly-obtained cash to fund “nefarious activities,” Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir warned on Tuesday.
None of the Iranians freed as part of a prisoner exchange deal with the Obama Administration last week actually left the country, U.S. officials told ABC News.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as part of a five-day Middle East trip that will also include visits to Egypt and Iran.
A week after the Iranian military arrested, detained overnight, and later released ten U.S. sailors, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he was “very angry” that they Ayatollah’s militants decided to use the situation for propaganda purposes, in an apparent violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry claims that 28 Iranians were released or had charges against them dropped as part of an exchange deal with the U.S. that saw five American hostages freed from the regime’s grip. Iran’s claim conflicts with earlier reports that only 21 Iranians were part of the exchange deal.
On the day after an Israeli mother was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro condemned Jerusalem over its West Bank housing policies, and also alleged Israel mistreats the Palestinian people.
Iran will ignore recently-passed U.S. sanctions against its ballistic missile program, the regime’s defense minister pledged on Monday, promising to unveil new homemade weapons systems in the near future.
An “investigative journalist” on Iran’s state-run PressTV Monday claimed to have discovered why the Obama Administration is both offering sanctions relief to the Ayatollah’s Islamic Republic while also imposing a new round of sanctions on Tehran: “Jewish neocons.”
Iran announced this week that authorities are hosting a state-sponsored contest to see who can create the best Holocaust denial cartoon. The grand prize has been boosted this year to $50,000, up from $12,000, according to reports.
Several Iranian newspapers published on Thursday featured lead stories on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’(IRGC) recent seizure of two U.S. boats and a ten sailor crew.
The Defense Department announced Thursday that 10 Yemeni detainees have been set free from Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. All of them were sent to the Gulf state of Oman, the Pentagon said. Less than 100 detainees now remain at the military facility.
During a CNN interview on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed she could see Iran across the Persian Gulf when she visited Bahrain.
King Abdullah’s Jordan is one of America’s most important allies in the Middle East, but President Obama does not have time to meet with the leader of the Hashemite Kingdom this week while he visits the U.S., the White House has announced.
Iranian state-controlled news outlet Tasnim released video Wednesday afternoon that shows a U.S. sailor apologizing for purportedly infringing upon Tehran’s sovereignty.
President Obama has “no plans” to address the ongoing hostage situation with Iran in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, White House Communications Director Jen Psaki told CNN.
The Islamic Republic of Iran seized two U.S. Navy vessels while they were navigating the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, detaining the ships and ten American sailors near Iran’s Farsi Island, the Pentagon said.
Alain Ghozland, 73, a French Jewish politician from outside of Paris, was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday, with his body showing multiple lacerations that appeared to be stab wounds, according to reports. Mr. Ghozland was a municipal councillor
A Kuwaiti court has sentenced two men in their 20s to death on charges of spying for the Islamic Republic of Iran and planning terror attacks inside the country.
The 30-year-old Muslim man who attempted to execute a Philadelphia police officer on behalf of Islam and the Islamic State may have been part of a larger terror plot, law enforcement agencies warned Monday.
Asim Abdur Rashid, the Imam of the Masjid Mujahideen in west Philadelphia, misled the public about a radical Muslim who, on Thursday, attempted to execute a police officer in the name of Islam.
A Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) clinic in Yemen was hit by a “projectile” on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding ten more in the blast, the humanitarian group announced.
The Obama Pentagon announced Monday that Guantánamo detainee Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani, 40, will be transferred back to his home country of Saudi Arabia. With the Monday announcement, Al-Shamrani became the fourth Guantánamo detainee released in 2016. U.S.
Rose Hamid, an Islamic protester who made headlines when she was removed from a Donald Trump rally in South Carolina Friday night and attempted to position herself as a victim of ‘Islamophobia’ thereafter, has a history rife with extremist advocacy.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), A terror-tied Islamic advocacy group that fancies itself a civil rights organization, has called for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to apologize after a Muslim woman was kicked out of one of his rallies in South Carolina Friday night.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a terror-tied Muslim advocacy group, is trying to persuade Americans that the devout Muslim man who attempted to execute a Philadelphia police officer on Thursday isn’t Islamic.
Bassem al-Agha, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, reiterated his governing body’s support for Riyadh in the latest diplomatic flareup between the Saudis and the regime in Iran.
The Muslim man who said Islam motivated him to shoot a police officer does not represent the teachings of Islam, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney stated in a press conference on Friday afternoon, following an attempt execution by a the man who had reportedly pledged to the Islamic State.
The Jews are behind a rising tide of anti-Islamic sentiment in America, the director of a Washington, D.C. mosque told an Iranian state-controlled media outlet on Thursday.
Officials in the tiny Gulf nation of Bahrain said Wednesday they busted an Iran-backed “terror” cell that was planning imminent attacks inside of the country. Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni monarchy but is populated with a Shiite majority.
Two Guantánamo detainees from Yemen have been transferred from the detention center and relocated to Ghana, marking the beginning of an expected 17 imminent departures from the naval base. Now, just 105 detainees remain at Guantánamo Bay.
On Wednesday, the Sunni nations of Qatar and Djibouti announced they would be severing diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran, becoming the 9th and 10th nations to officially cut relations, roll back ties, or condemn the Shiite theocracy in the past week.
The Islamic Republic of Iran revealed Tuesday what appeared to be an underground missile base, with state-television footage showcasing a stockpile of precision-guided missiles.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a Breitbart News contributor and Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University, appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss the Obama administration’s strategy against the Islamic State terror group.
When Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi Shiite cleric on New Year’s Eve, the Shiite world ignited in protest. According to the Iranian regime, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr’s execution was not justified. The Saudi government, however, thinks otherwise.