(CNSNews.com) – Iran’s globe-trotting foreign minister, Javad Zarif, will be designated for U.S. sanctions later this week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at the White House on Monday. “The president has also designated – instructed me that we will be designating Zarif later this week,” he told reporters, while discussing the latest sanctions developments. President […]
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq—When Iran’s economy began to collapse last year under U.S. sanctions, Iranian computer programmer Mohsen Heidari decided to look for work in Iraqi Kurdistan. “It’s impossible to support my family, anymore, living in Iran,” said Heidari, who is from the Iranian city of Kermanshah. “Coming here was my last option,” Heidari said of the […]
Israeli strikes targeting Syria on Sunday left 10 people dead, including three Syrian soldiers and seven foreign fighters, a Syrian opposition organization based in Britain said. They were killed in missile strikes close the capital Damascus where Syrian troops, Iranian forces and Hezbollah fighters are stationed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It did […]
Antonia Yamin, Channel 11 News’ correspondent in Europe, attended a mass pro-Israel rally in Berlin, Germany, held to counter an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian Authority demonstration funded by Iran. “I’m very happy that my statement made so much noise, because now we have a real opportunity to change something,” Germany’s government commissioner on anti-Semitism, Felix Klein, told […]
(CNSNews.com) – The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner has reversed a warning to Jewish men not to identify themselves by wearing kippas, and is now urging Germans across the country to don the distinctive headwear in an act of solidarity. Drawing attention to an upcoming anti-Israel event, Felix Klein called on citizens in Berlin and elsewhere […]
(CNSNews.com) – Former secretaries of state should “get off the stage” and leave foreign policy to their successors, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday, when asked about John Kerry’s interactions with the Iranian regime since leaving the State Department. Asked by CNBC’s Hadley Gamble whether Kerry’s reported conversations with his former Iranian counterpart made […]
A senior Iranian cleric warned on Friday that a US navy fleet could be “destroyed with one missile”, Reuters reported, citing the semi-official ISNA news agency. The comments, by Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad, were made in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. “Their billion (-dollar) fleet can be destroyed with one missile,” he was quoted as […]
Speaking Wednesday in London at the Centre for Policy Studies—a distinguished think tank founded by Margaret Thatcher—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered the annual Margaret Thatcher Lecture. And he said just what Britain needed to hear. The essence of Pompeo’s remarks was that Britain is a great and global power, with which the United States enjoys a […]
On Wednesday, Iran announced it would pull out of parts of the nuclear deal (JCPOA) with five world powers in reaction to increasing US sanctions and military pressure on the Islamic Republic by the US army in the Middle East. Iran’s so-called moderate President Hassan Rouhani said the country would now keep enriched uranium within […]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night attended a military event at the Hatzerim Air Force Base. In addition to Netanyahu, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, and Air Force Commander Amikam Norkin also attended the event. “We will continue to respond forcefully to […]
