Rep. Steny Hoyer (D – Md.), the Democratic whip of the House of Representatives, expressed disappointment with the Obama administration for indefinitely delaying punitive sanctions on Iran over its illicit ballistic missile program, arguing that failure to act will erode the United States’ ability to enforce the nuclear deal with...

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Saudi Arabia’s allies announced that they were following Riyadh’s lead and cutting diplomatic ties with Iran after an attack on the kingdom’s embassy in Tehran, the Associated Press reported on Monday. Saudi Arabia executed 47 prisoners, including Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr from the kingdom’s predominantly Shiite eastern province, for terror-related offenses on Saturday. After...

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Defeating ISIS requires fighting against Iran first, Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and senior editor at The Weekly Standard, argued in a lecture to the Middle East Forum, which was published on their website Tuesday. A recording of the talk is available at the link. Smith began his talk by explaining why...

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Only a day after floating the possibility that the White House would impose new sanctions on Iran due to its illegal ballistic missile tests, the Obama administration has now decided to delay its decision to an undetermined future date after Iran issued repeated threats, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google...

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After reports emerged Wednesday that the United States will impose new sanctions on Iran after the Islamic Republic tested ballistic missiles in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Thursday that he is ordering his defense ministry to accelerate the development of his nation’s missile program. Iran’s semi-official...

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Facing strong bipartisan Congressional pressure, the Obama administration is preparing to impose new sanctions on Iran for its illicit ballistic missile program, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. But one expert is characterizing the new sanctions as being the “bare minimum” the administration could do under the circumstances. The new...

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After the United States passed a law tightening its visa waiver program, Iran said that doing so was a violation of the nuclear deal signed by global powers in July, and threatened to file a complaint to the Joint Commission, a new international body that governs disputes between the signatory...

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In a move that the U.S. military called “highly provocative,” an Iranian ship fired rockets near American naval warships in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman through which one-third of the world’s oil passes, is critical for U.S. and...

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New bills are being introduced in Congress with bipartisan support that would target the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s powerful extraterritorial militia, preventing it from benefiting from the sanctions relief that was allowed as part of the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. Proposals like the IRGC Sanctions Act,...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States of creating ISIS and trying to destroy Islamic civilization in a speech Tuesday in Tehran. Khamenei made his comments in front of Muslim scholars, leaders and political figures at the International Islamic Unity Conference. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported...

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