Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced military exercises had taken place on Thursday in anticipation of potential American military activity to prevent a group of Iranian oil tankers from arriving in the South American country.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated that he is completely convinced that without the dishonesty of the Chinese Communist Party, the coronavirus wouldn’t have spread to the U.S. and announced he
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) vowed to sanction China until it engages in full cooperation with any investigation into the coronavirus’ origins, closes “exotic wildlife” wet markets, and frees Hong Kong
Former vice president Joe Biden called on President Donald Trump Thursday to offer more aid to Iran, as that country struggles with coronavirus — though the U.S. has already offered aid, and the Iranian regime rejected it.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that “all provinces of Iran, without exception, have witnessed a downward trend in the coronavirus infection cases,” as reported by Iran’s state-run Tasnim news agency.
Tehran — Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus has passed 3,000, the health ministry said on Wednesday, as President Hassan Rouhani accused Washington of missing a “historic opportunity” to lift sanctions.
Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship lodged a formal protest against the United States Thursday at the International Criminal Court (ICC), asking The Hague to formally investigate Washington for “crimes against humanity.”
The USS Normandy, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, intercepted a small sailing vessel in the Arabian Sea over the weekend and found it loaded with Iranian weapons bound for the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The weapons included 150 anti-tank missiles and three surface-to-air missiles, plus a supply of components useful for maintaining unmanned aerial vehicles.
An alleged United Nations report unearthed by Reuters on Monday concluded that at no time in 2019 did the communist regime in North Korea stop its nuclear weapons program, raising questions as to why allies Russia and China insisted the U.S. support relieving Pyongyang of those sanctions as a reward for halting nuclear development.
Trump has used sanctions to diminish Iran’s appetite for war, and has created a set of impossible choices for the Iranian regime.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced new sanctions against Iran targeting its billion-dollar metals industry, including the largest manufacturers of steel, aluminum, copper, and iron in the country. The new sanctions also named several senior regime officials involved with Tuesday’s missile attack on Iraqi bases.
The White House announced Friday additional economic sanctions on Iran in retaliation for the missile strikes against American targets in the Middle East.
TEL AVIV – Rep. Ilhan Omar has come under fire over her hypocrisy in criticizing President Donald Trump for his “unmeasured response” in waging “economic warfare” against Iran by imposing new sanctions, while at the same time having no problem supporting sanctions against Israel.
Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general killed by U.S. forces at the direction of President Donald Trump on Thursday evening, was sanctioned by the Obama administration in 2011 for his role in a foiled terror attack on Washington, D.C.
International groups that monitor Internet blockades said on Wednesday that mobile Internet access is going down across several provinces in Iran, most likely paving the way for another bloody crackdown on protesters.
Representatives from China and Russia urged the United Nations Security Council on Monday to lift sanctions on North Korea imposed in the aftermath of its last nuclear weapons test in 2017, failing to convince their American counterpart to support the move.
President Trump, unlike his predecessor, put Iran’s regime on the defensive. Now is no time to let them off the hook.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday blamed the United States and other “foreigners” for “interference in Iran’s internal affairs” for supporting the recent protests over gasoline price increases. Meanwhile, at a chemical weapons conference in The Hague, Iran’s representative denounced the U.S. as a threat to global security.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper floated on Friday the possibility of “sanctions on individuals and entities” supporting Congress’s bill protecting human rights in Hong Kong, despite China’s years-long insistence that it opposes unilateral sanctions.
President Trump has not withheld anything from North Korea, 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia.
Protests in towns and cities across Iran continued Monday despite the use of lethal force against demonstrators by the regime plus a nationwide Internet blackout. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization, threatened “decisive” action if the protests do not end soon.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday – the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis – that the reward for information leading to the recovery of missing American Robert Levinson has been increased to $20 million. Levinson disappeared in Iran in 2007 at the age of 58.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Monday new sanctions to continue punishing Iran for its nuclear program.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who supports sanctions against Israel, has published an op-ed in Thursday’s Washington Post that attacks President Donald Trump’s use of sanctions as “part of a failed foreign policy playbook.”
The government of Zimbabwe on Tuesday designated October 25 as “Anti-Sanctions Day,” a new “holiday” intended to protest ongoing U.S. sanctions against a number of Zimbabwean officials, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that he supports withholding arms sales to Turkey, but is skeptical about sanctioning the country. Rand said, “I think that we should push back on
“The president is concerned about the ongoing military offensive and the potential targeting of civilians, civilian infrastructure, ethnic or religious minorities,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday.
The White House this week banned senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials from visiting the United States as part of the latest round of sanctions and policy of “maximum pressure” against the respective regimes.
“These are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country,” he said. “We’ve never done it to this level.”
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro told students in an address marking the first day of school Monday that their country was “in a world war of an economic character” against “imperialism,” a term communists and socialists in Latin America use to refer to the United States.
An op-ed at China’s state-run China Daily on Thursday denounced American sanctions against nations like Iran and North Korea as “human rights violations” on the grounds that they cause ordinary civilians to suffer much more than the leadership of rogue regimes.
Retired Army Col. Doug Macgregor told Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that there should be an end to global police missions.
New U.S. counterterrorism sanctions on a “wide range of terrorists and their supporters” were announced Tuesday night on the eve of Sept. 11 terror attack commemorations.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday ordered his country’s nuclear industry to develop faster uranium enrichment technology, marking another major breach of the 2015 nuclear deal.
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Iran’s space agency for the first time on Tuesday, accusing the regime of developing ballistic missiles under the guise of a civilian program aimed at launching satellites into orbit.
A “motorized force” of socialist thugs drove around the state of Miranda, Venezuela, on Monday, forcing civilians to sign a petition demanding President Donald Trump and the United States cease efforts to remove Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime from power.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance at the G7 summit in France on Sunday, a bit of collusion between the French and Iranian governments that appeared to be French President Emmanuel Macron’s gambit to jump-start diplomacy between Washington and Tehran.
The North Korean government on Friday declared it is ready for either “dialogue or stand-off” with the United States on denuclearization, warned Washington not to impose any further sanctions against the regime, and demanded “diehard toxin” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo be taken out of the loop for any further negotiations.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday threatened to impose sanctions against American companies involved in a proposed $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, instructing the United States to “immediately back away” from the sale.
Western intelligence sources told Fox News on Tuesday that Iran has dispatched another oil tanker to Syria in defiance of U.S. sanctions. Meanwhile, the first sanctions-busting ship was leased to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in another apparent gesture of defiance to the United States.
