White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that Iran “could potentially be contributing to widespread war crimes” in Ukraine by supplying its drones to Russia. Sullivan made the remark during President Biden’s trip to Mexico City and just weeks after
Iran said it executed two men Saturday convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer during a demonstration, the latest executions aimed at halting the nationwide protests now challenging the country’s theocracy. Iran’s judiciary identified those executed as Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad
A series of offensive cartoons depicting Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has provoked outrage in Tehran. The magazine’s latest issue features the winners of a recent cartoon contest in which entrants were asked to
Tehran handed down two death penalty sentences this week to two teenagers who were involved in the nationwide demonstrations protesting the Khamenei regime and who were deemed to have waged “enmity against God” and “corruption on Earth.” Arshia Takdastan, 18, was sentenced
Iran held top military drills Friday in a joint effort involving air, sea and land forces, in what one major general referred to as “the war before the war” while he spoke against the threat Israel and the U.S. pose. The drills,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday claimed that Moscow supports the U.S. and its Western allies in finding a nuclear deal with Iran and warned against the threat of an “irreversible” arms race. “The JCPOA has no reasonable alternative,” he said
A leading human rights organization—the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center—on Thursday named soaring anti-Jewish hate crimes in Democratic controlled Chicago and New York and on elite U.S. college campuses as some of the top ten worst outbreaks of antisemitism in 2022. Rabbi Abraham
President Biden’s efforts to grant wide-ranging economic concessions to Iran’s regime during 2022 to temporarily stop Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons program have been rebuffed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, experts say. The waves of protesters opposed to Iran’s regime
Israeli officials worry that the U.S. shift away from pursuing the Iran nuclear deal may prove temporary and that the deal remains a key focus for the Biden administration, despite comments to the contrary from officials in the past two weeks, according
Iran’s government blocked the departure of a prominent anti-regime former soccer player on Monday after their plan stopped en route to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “The regime has a fixation on celebrities and their families,” Lisa Daftari, a Middle East expert and