New York Times | Iran Denounces US Sanctions Over Missiles, Saying It Will Build More New York Times Iran's president denounced the United States on Thursday for suggesting the possibility of new sanctions over Iranian missiles, and he ordered his Defense Ministry to respond by swiftly building more of them. Rouhani expands Iran's missile program despite US sanctions threat Iran asserts its right to build missiles as US considers new sanctions Iran Vows to Speed Up Ballistic-Missile Program, Casting Fresh Doubts on ... |
New York Times | Iran's Missile Tests Remind the US That Tensions Have Not Ended New York Times The new sanctions are designed, administration officials say, to make clear that the United States remains committed to containing Iran's regional ambitions, which have so rattled its Arab neighbors. But they are also intended as a carefully calibrated ... Iran denies it fired rockets near US warship in Gulf Iran: What Rockets? We Didn't Test Fire Any Rockets Near A US Aircraft Carrier Iran denies firing rockets near US warships |
New York Post | Justice for Iran's old hostages — but not for the new ones New York Post Yet even as these ex-hostages win their battle after 35 years, Iran holds other Americans captive today. Four of them — journalist Jason Rezaian, former Marine Amir Hekmati, pastor Saeed Abedini and retired FBI agent Robert Levinson — have been held ... |
Bloomberg | U.S. Said to Plan Sanctions Tied to Iran's Missile Program Bloomberg The Obama administration, which is implementing a landmark accord aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program, was criticized earlier this month by Republican Senator Bob Corker for a lax response to Iran's possible launch of a ballistic missile and has ... |
The New Yorker | Cuba and Iran, Melancholy Twins The New Yorker The first thing that struck me during a trip to Cuba this month was how much it reminds me of Iran. Despite divergent ideologies—Communist, Islamic—the aging revolutions emit the same cranky melancholia. Rhetoric is still defiant, but public zealotry ... |
BBC News | The little bit of Iran on a street in Greater Manchester BBC News A crumbling mansion owned by the government of Iran sits abandoned in one of Greater Manchester's most exclusive areas. No-one seems able to get rid of it. Why? The derelict building seems out of place on a road lined with million-pound properties. |
Telegraph.co.uk | Iran opens its first marathon to tourists - but women can't compete Telegraph.co.uk “Unfortunately, women are not allowed to run this first limited edition”, said Mr Straten. “There are many (Iranian) women who like to run and we hope in the next edition we get the permission for women to run the marathon.” Iran's first marathon will ... Iranian international marathon is men only |
Washington Times | GOLDEN HAMMER: Taxpayers pony up what Iran won't under terror victim law Washington Times The fund will provide $4.4 million in compensation for each of the 53 Americans who were held hostage for 444 days by Iran after the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979. The fund will also provide another $600,000 for a spouse or child of each hostage. |
Wall Street Journal | Iran Hands Over Stockpile of Enriched Uranium to Russia New York Times A Russian ship left Iran on Monday carrying almost all of Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium, fulfilling a major step in the nuclear deal struck last summer and, for the first time in nearly a decade, apparently leaving Iran with too little fuel ... Iran Ships Off Uranium as Part of Nuclear Agreement Iran ships 25000lb of low-enriched uranium to Russia as part of nuclear deal Iran nuclear deal: Tehran on track, says John Kerry |
Breitbart News | NSA spying on Netanyahu, Congress over Iran Nuke Deal Confirms Worst Fears Breitbart News Entous and Yadron report that while the U.S. was negotiating the Iran nuclear agreement, the National Security Agency (NSA) was spying on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposed the deal and advocated Congress oppose it, which ... US 'spied on Binyamin Netanyahu during Iran nuclear deal talks' U.S. Reportedly Spied on Israel During Iran Talks Wall Street Journal: US Spied on Netanyahu During Iran Deal Talks |