New York Times | Senate Votes to Extend Sanctions Against Iran New York Times WASHINGTON — The Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to extend the president's authority to impose sanctions on Iran for another decade, a largely symbolic move intended to keep pressure on Tehran to abide by the landmark nuclear accord struck ... Senate unanimously OKs 10-year extension of Iran sanctions law Congress Renews US Sanctions Law on Iran Senate votes unanimously to renew Iran sanctions law |
The New York Review of Books | Iran's Game in Aleppo The New York Review of Books Over the past few days, Syrian government forces, along with their Russian and Iranian allies, have been pounding rebel-held areas of Aleppo with the kind of destructive air power rarely seen since the bombing of Dresden. A third of the city has been ... |
Vox | Meet Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, Trump's Iran hawk choice for secretary of defense Vox He came away from that job with a deeply held belief that Iran's support for Shia militias in Iraq meant that Tehran was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American troops — and that the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran ... |
The deals and rhetoric behind the U.S. relationship with Iran PBS NewsHour In his new book, “The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles and the Secret Deals that Reshaped the Middle East,” The Wall Street Journal's Jay Solomon discusses the U.S. power struggle with Iran, including the Obama administration's nuclear deal and ... |
Guardian | Iran welcomes OPEC production-cut decision The Seattle Times TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday welcomed an OPEC deal that cut the oil cartel's output to push up crude prices. Speaking in a provincial meeting, broadcast live on State TV Thursday, Rouhani called the decision “a ... Iran claims victory in OPEC oil deal How Putin got Saudi Arabia and Iran to agree on an Opec deal Iran's OPEC 'victory' hailed at home |
Newsweek | Danielle Pletka: Trump's Mideast Policy Boosts Iran Newsweek Many of my colleagues have been providing unsolicited counsel to President-elect Donald Trump about Syria, Russia, Iran and the broader Middle East. But much of this advice—tear up the Iran deal, use Russia and Assad to destroy ISIS— doesn't bear ... |
Forbes | Iran Disavows Trump Influence; Oil Deals Continue Forbes Iran is disavowing any impact that Donald Trump's presidential victory earlier this month has had on the Islamic republic's negotiations with international energy companies over its new oil projects. “We've felt nothing (negative) so far,” Iran's ... |
Fox News | Who will blink first: Iran or Trump? Fox News The Ayatollah Khamenei warned the day before Thanksgiving that if the U.S. dared to extend sanctions on Iran, the Islamic Republic would retaliate. President-elect Trump, meanwhile, has vowed to cancel the deal altogether, which would almost certainly ... Senate to vote on Iran sanctions renewal this week Unfinished Business With Iran Iran's Khamenei slams Rouhani for being 'too open' toward West |
Al-Arabiya | Iran's uproar Al-Arabiya While meeting with Iranian naval force officials last Sunday to discuss enhancing Iranian influence in international waters, Khamenei said: “The capacity of the Islamic Republic of Iran's naval power must suit the Islamic system and the nobility of ... |
Wall Street Journal | Iran's Prisoner of the Revolution - WSJ Wall Street Journal A beloved son of the regime is jailed for disclosing its crimes, says an editorial in The Wall Street Journal. Iran to jail son of Ayatollah Montazeri |