Iran made its nervousness over Israeli military drills public when Rahim Safavi, national security adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said 80,000 Hizbullah rockets and missiles would destroy Tel Aviv (more…)
At the June 5 meeting of OPEC member states in Vienna, production levels were left unchanged at 30 million barrels per day. But Iran insisted it would increase its (more…)
President Barack Obama’s unwavering commitment to a nuclear deal with Iran, if successful, may result in a new nuclear arms race in the already unstable Middle East. Under the (more…)
Russian and Iranian officials met in Moscow on May 25 for negotiations on Russia’s sale of S-300 surface-to-air missile defense systems to Iran and both sides said talks on (more…)
Iran’s recent naval actions in the Strait of Hormuz and Yemen may be an immediate provocation to the U.S., but its grand strategy of gaining a chokehold on 22 (more…)
Iran’s purchase of nine used commercial jetliners that had been part of the Virgin Atlantic fleet is seen as evidence that U.S. sanctions are being ignored by Western firms (more…)
A United Nations panel reported Iran attempted to circumvent sanctions by purchasing compressors that could be used in its nuclear program from an American-owned company through a “false end (more…)
U.S. President Barack Obama induced a “jaw-dropping” response after saying he was “not surprised” about Russia’s decision to proceed with sales of its S-300 missile system to Iran. “This (more…)