General Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, in a wide-ranging interview on June 11 with Tampa Bay Times, echoed General James Mattis and other U.S. officials in calling Iran the most destabilizing force in the Middle East.
In a letter to the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Iran, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has condemned a visit by 45 foreign ambassadors to Tehran’s infamous Evin prison, as “a state-choreographed visit”.
U.S. President Donald Trump says Washington will work with France on a postwar plan for Syria, and with its partners in Iraq to cement victory over Islamic State (IS) fighters in the city of Mosul.
The detention of an Iranian medical researcher with a valid visa has made headlines, but numerous reports of his connections to Iran's notorious Basij force has some approving of the U.S. ban on his entry to the country.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan says he wants to move as quickly as possible on a package of tough new sanctions against Russia and Iran but that procedural and policy issues are delaying that action.
U.S. Defense Secretary General James Mattis says it is difficult to create an atmosphere of trust with Iran “until the Iranian people can get rid of [the] theocracy [in their country]”.
U.S. President Donald Trump's eldest son on July 10 offered to talk to a Senate committee investigating alleged Russian interference in last year's presidential election, after he admitted meeting a Russian lawyer during the campaign.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, arriving in Istanbul after a trip to Ukraine, praised the courage of the Turkish people who “defended their democracy" by standing up against coup plotters a year ago.
July 1999, Iran witnessed six days of student protests. 20 years have passed by and some dimensions of those six days of bloody protests remain shrouded in mystery. What you see in this gallery are photos taken by Hassan Sarbakhshian, Iranian photojournalist.
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