An “alternative universe” was created to sell the Iran nuclear deal to the American people, Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer said on Wednesday.
On Friday, Iran will hold its 12th presidential election, where approximately 55 million eligible Iranians will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for either incumbent “reformist” President Hassan Rouhani or hardliner Ebrahim Raisi (also known as Ebrahim Rais os-Sadati), a close friend of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and his understudy.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions against individuals and corporate entities in Iran and China for assisting Iran’s ballistic missile program.
It has long been obvious that North Korea shares missile technology with Iran, but Fox News reports the Pentagon is investigating military ties between the two belligerent nations with increased vigor after Iran’s recent test launch of a submarine missile.
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry famously said, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” But in discussing Iran’s nuclear weapons program, we need to ask what it says about subsequent American governments that they have been continually fooled by Tehran’s mullahs in their efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
Former President Barack Obama lied to the American people about the infamous prisoner swap that was part of the Iran deal in 2016, and released fugitives who were considered major national security threats, according to an investigative report by Politico.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) presented satellite imagery and intelligence, said to be provided by informants working covertly inside the Iranian military, that indicates the Iranian regime is far from complying with the terms of the nuclear deal.
U.S. and Iranian officials traded criticisms over compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal on Thursday, following Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s certification to Congress that Iran was following the letter of the deal but could still merit sanctions for its “alarming ongoing provocations” across the Middle East, including sponsorship of terrorism.
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton took stock of President Trump’s foreign policy on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
Former Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, now a White House national security adviser, discussed the situation in North Korea with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Daniel Levinson, son of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, is hopeful that President Trump can bring his father home after 10 years missing in Iran.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, where the conversation began with President Trump’s revised executive order on immigration and covered the Iran nuclear deal.
Another towering achievement of Obama foreign policy was reported by Bloomberg Politics on Wednesday, as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism counts its money from the nuclear deal windfall and prepares for a weapons “shopping spree.”
TEL AVIV – The U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia should not “get themselves into serious trouble” by taking military action against Iran, the Islamic Republic’s top diplomat said in a BBC interview on Monday.
TEL AVIV – A top general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards over the weekend warned the U.S. to “be wise” and “avoid threats” against the Islamic republic.
Major General Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s notorious Quds Force — the terrorism department of Iran’s complex military structure — violated multiple United Nations resolutions with a visit to Moscow on Wednesday.
James Woolsey, CIA director under Bill Clinton and a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, said in a CNN interview on Monday that Iran may be a “relatively short time away” from developing nuclear weapons.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton discussed the potential designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
At a meeting with Iranian military leaders, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “measures and threats” and blamed his predecessor Barack Obama for creating the Islamic State.
President Donald Trump charged on Sunday that Iran “lost respect” for the US in the wake of the 2015 nuclear deal signed between Tehran and the US-led P5+1 world powers, and that it now feels “emboldened” by the agreement to act confrontationally on the world stage.
President Donald Trump, as is his custom, took to Twitter to blast Iran for its recent provocations. (He blasted Arnold Schwarzenegger for his recent provocations at roughly the same time, but he was much tougher on Iran.)
(Reuters) The United States on Friday sanctioned 13 individuals and 12 entities under its Iran sanctions authority, days after the White House put Tehran “on notice” over a ballistic missile test and other activities.
Iran will not bow to “useless” threats from President Donald Trump’s administration, declared a top adviser to the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the Middle Eastern nation test-fired a ballistic missile reportedly capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.
The Trump administration has already strongly condemned Iran for testing a ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. resolutions last weekend but, according to Germany’s Die Welt, it also tested one of its new Soumar nuclear-capable cruise missiles.
(Reuters) The United States is expected to impose sanctions on multiple Iranian entities as early as Friday following Tehran’s recent ballistic missile test, but in a way that will not violate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said he was “delighted” to hear National Security Adviser Mike Flynn’s statement that Iran has been “put on notice” for its ballistic missile launches and other provocations.
Two U.S. Congressmen from both sides of the aisle have come together to call for a more rigorous enforcement of the Iran deal a year after it went into effect.
Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan issued a statement to Iranian state media confirming the recent test of a ballistic missile, and claiming the test did not violate the nuclear deal.
Iran on Monday tested a ballistic missile with a range of 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) and a payload heavy enough to carry a nuclear warhead, US officials said.
U.S. officials announced Iran conducted another ballistic missile test in defiance of U.N. sanctions on Sunday, test-firing a Khorramshahr medium-range missile from the test site in Semnan, 140 miles east of Tehran.
The Associated Press reports that Iran is being “cautious in its first comments on U.S. President Donald Trump.”
A top Iranian nuclear official said that Iran would quickly bring its nuclear program up to speed if US President Donald Trump “tears up” the Iranian nuclear accord, as he said during his presidential campaign.
Iran’s latest assault on President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal is a report claiming that President-elect Donald Trump’s criticisms have “psychologically affected” implementation by causing “a sense of anxiety and uncertainty over the fate of the agreement” among foreign companies that might do business with the Islamic Republic.
Gov. Nikki Haley, the prospective United Nations ambassador under the incoming Donald Trump administration, declined to support the United States unilaterally backing out of the Iran nuclear deal.
The Obama administration is almost gone, and its nuclear agreement with Iran may soon come to an ugly end in the early weeks of 2017.
(AFP) – EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini on Monday insisted the bloc will stand by the Iran nuclear accord, bluntly condemned by US President-elect Donald Trump, because it serves Europe’s security needs.
Iran is once again testing the limits of the nuclear deal, also known as the JCPOA, by stockpiling much more uranium than it needs for civilian energy generation.
Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of the best-selling book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, was tasked by SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily with choosing the “worst thing Obama is leaving this country, in terms of foreign policy.”
Critics of the Iranian nuclear deal charged that the Obama administration was not sufficiently concerned with how Iran would spend the money from its post-sanctions windfall. Evidently, departing President Obama and his team thought domestic political pressures would oblige the Iranian government to invest more heavily in constructive economic pursuits.
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, with two weeks left in office, issued an exit memo that concedes the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) “cannot be won overnight.”
