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President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, in May 2018. The Iran deal was one of [...]

Event On November 27th Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in his vehicle near Absard, in northern Iran. Analysis The killing quickly drew statements blaming Israel from senior [...]

Last week Iran released Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a dual UK-Australian citizen who has been detained since 2018, in exchange for three Iranians convicted of attempting an attack on Israel's embassy in [...]

Days after the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top Iranian nuclear scientist, retired US Navy Adm. William McRaven said that retaliation is all but inevitable. 'The Iranians are going to [...]

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, one of Iran's top nuclear scientists, was assassinated Friday afternoon outside of Tehran. So far, no state has claimed responsibility for the meticulously coordinated attack, but the likely [...]

Israel and Saudi Arabia send a clear signal to Iran--and Joe Biden ISRAELI MINISTERS were told at the last moment that a cabinet meeting scheduled for November 22nd had been [...]

Iran's top diplomat, Javad Zarif, on Friday suggested Israel was involved in the reported assassination of a top nuclear scientist. Iranian media on Friday reported that nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh [...]

(https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/11/a-race-to-close-a-gamechanging-deal-with-saudi-arabia-pakistan-and-israel.html#comments-anchor) (https://apnews.com/article/israel-saudi-arabia-benjamin-netanyahu-tel-aviv-mike-pompeo-f55744d193db805923bbe9177a90c291) Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu had a meeting with Saudi meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-how-saudi-arabia-is-pressuring-pakistan-to-recognize-israel-1.9315768) There are also reports [...]

The US president-elect, Joe Biden, has signalled his willingness to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; informally known as the Iran nuclear deal). However, this will be difficult. [...]

The US president-elect, Joe Biden, has signalled his willingness to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; informally known as the Iran nuclear deal). However, this will be difficult. [...]

The US president-elect, Joe Biden, has signalled his willingness to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; informally known as the Iran nuclear deal). However, this will be difficult. [...]

The US president-elect, Joe Biden, has signalled his willingness to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; informally known as the Iran nuclear deal). However, this will be difficult. [...]

The US president-elect, Joe Biden, has signalled his willingness to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; informally known as the Iran nuclear deal). However, this will be difficult. [...]

The US president-elect, Joe Biden, has signalled his willingness to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; informally known as the Iran nuclear deal). However, this will be difficult. [...]

The US president-elect, Joe Biden, has signalled his willingness to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; informally known as the Iran nuclear deal). However, this will be difficult. [...]

Event On November 18th the outgoing US administration imposed new sanctions on Iran, as part of an elevation of pressure ahead of its impending departure from office in January. Analysis [...]

Event On November 22nd the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, secretly met the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud, and the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, in the [...]

Event On November 22nd the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, secretly met the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud, and the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, in the [...]

The assassination of an Al Qaeda commander in Tehran by an Israeli hit squad would only have been undertaken at the request of American intelligence services, sources tell Insider. Mounting [...]

President Donald Trump asked senior advisors to provide him with options for a military strike on Iran last Thursday, according to The New York Times. An array of top advisors [...]

Event Iran's new ambassador to the Houthi authorities, who have de facto control of northern Yemen, met the prime minister of the self-styled Yemeni National Salvation Government (NSG) on November [...]

Event Iran's new ambassador to the Houthi authorities, who have de facto control of northern Yemen, met the prime minister of the self-styled Yemeni National Salvation Government (NSG) on November [...]

Event Iran's new ambassador to the Houthi authorities, who have de facto control of northern Yemen, met the prime minister of the self-styled Yemeni National Salvation Government (NSG) on November [...]

Near-term foreign policy will remain focused on maintaining robust bilateral ties with the US, given that the US is Kuwait's traditional security guarantor. Despite its close ties to the US, [...]

Event On November 8th Joe Biden, whose policy platform includes a conditional return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal), was elected as the next [...]

Trump's three-year pressure campaign against Iran has undeniably failed to accomplish the goals its advocates claimed and made a foolish war more likely. The next US administration needs to take [...]

Event In late October the Financial Action Task Force (FATF, an international financial system watchdog) adopted new monitoring standards to combat the financing of nuclear proliferation, devised by the US [...]

Event Privatisations and bond issues earned the government IR1,230trn (US$29.3bn at the official exchange rate of US$1:42,000) in the first half of the Iranian fiscal year (March 21st-September 20th), according [...]

WHEN PHOTOGRAPHER HOSSEIN FATEMI first Set out to document the Iranian-American immigrant community, not all of his subjects were happy about it. Some 400,000 Iranians currently live in the United [...]

Jafar Mahallati started his professional career as Iran's ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.), where he had an instrumental role in ending the Iran-Iraq War In the late 1980s. It [...]

If last year saw some old wounds heal--from diplomatic breakthroughs in Iran and Cuba to marriage equality in the United States--this year marked the painful openings of others. The names [...]

REUTERS/Jonathan Drake TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY US officials are shedding more light on how (https://www.engadget.com/dni-fbi-election-security-press-conference-010112286.html) Iran-linked hackers stole voter info to send intimidating emails to Democrat voters. The FBI [...]

Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the US presidential election will be a 'test' of Facebook's attempts to prevent misinformation and foreign interference. Zuckerberg also warned of 'civil unrest' following Election [...]

NurPhoto via Getty Images With just a week to go before the 2020 presidential election, Facebook has once again taken down (https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-mexico-iran-myanmar/) networks of fake accounts that were targeting the [...]

The Trump administration rolled out yet another set of sanctions on Iranians this month, further restricting access to food and medicine. The new round of sanctions comes after years of [...]

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Google said a disinformation campaign linked to Iran tried to send 25,000 emails to Gmail accounts. Only 10% of the emails sent to Gmail accounts made it past Google's spam [...]

Rep. John Ratcliffe, (R-TX), testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May. 5, 2020. Pool via Getty Images At a press conference on [...]

With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, top national security officials warned that Iran and Russia have taken specific actions to influence the 2020 elections. Officials issued [...]

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to a $4.1 million settlement with the US Treasury after one of its subsidiaries was accused of 144 apparent violations of Iran sanctions. The [...]

Event On October 18th a 13-year-old international embargo on conventional arms trade with Iran expired, after US attempts to have it extended failed. Analysis The development is more symbolic than [...]

Event On October 14th Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, and Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, held talks in the US focused on shared enmity towards [...]

Event On October 10th an alliance of local militia, including the powerful Iranian-backed Kataib Hizbullah (KH), announced a temporary halt to attacks on US interests in Iraq, conditional on a [...]

Event On October 8th the US imposed sanctions on Iran's entire financial sector, barring all but humanitarian transactions as part of a 'maximum pressure' campaign designed to cripple the local [...]

A much more hardline establishment will dictate foreign policy in the coming years. Tensions between the US and Iran will remain high, with both sides engaging in belligerent rhetoric and [...]

Increasing pressure from the US on Iran and other actions in the Middle East have raised concerns that Trump could seek a confrontation before the presidential election. At the same [...]

Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is set to be fined by the US Department of Transportation for operating services through Iranian airspace while carrying a codeshare with US [...]