The $1.7 billion cash payment that the White House recently sent to Iran suggests that Washington may have transferred Tehran more than $33 billion in untraceable cash and precious metals since 2014, giving the Islamic Republic greater flexibility to launder money and finance terrorism, a sanctions expert told Congress on Thursday. In his testimony before the House Financial...

The U.S. sent Iran two previously unknown planeloads of cash, totaling $1.3 billion, in late January and early February, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night, causing lawmakers to worry that the cash will be used to finance terrorism and destabilize the Middle East. The administration had already admitted to...

Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, American political leaders have forgotten about the role Iran played in the atrocity, former Democratic senator Joseph Lieberman wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday. The 9/11 Commission found that “there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out...

Iran is systematically pushing the limits of the nuclear deal it reached with world powers last year without facing significant resistance, a leading non-proliferation told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control Program at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, offered her assessment in light of revelations last week...

Seven armed boats from the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) swarmed a U.S. Navy patrol ship in the Persian Gulf on Sunday, forcing it to change course after the Iranians came within 100 yards and stopped their vehicles in the American ship’s path, officials from the U.S. Defense Department said on...

Cooperating with an international anti-money laundering agency is not in Iran’s national interest, because doing so would harm the country’s ongoing support for terror, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted Sunday. Ali Akbar Velayati, chief of the Research Center of the Expediency Council, which advises Khamenei, said in a...