by WorldTribune Staff, September 22, 2019 Responding to the U.S. troop build-up in the Gulf region, Iran’s foreign minister told CBS News that he was not confident that war could be avoided, while again denying Iranian involvement in the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure. In an interview with Face the Nation, Iranian Foreign Minister […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 20, 2019 The Department of Justice has charged a Hizbullah operative who was residing in New Jersey with providing material support to a designated terror group after he was found to have scouted locations in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. for potential terrorist attacks. The nine-count indictment against Alexei Saab, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 18, 2019 Iran’s president on Sept. 18 said Saudi Arabia should consider the attack on its oil facilities a “warning” to stop its military campaign against Iranian-supported Houthi rebels in Yemen. While denying Iran was behind the attack which crippled a large portion of Saudi’s oil infrastructure, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2019 Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, took aim at President Donald Trump’s statements on the attack on Saudi’s oil infrastructure and a possible U.S. response, tweeting, “Trump awaits instructions from his Saudi masters. Having our country act as Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not ‘America First.’ ” As […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2019 If a major attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure had occurred in earlier administrations, the United States would likely be in panic mode in relation to its own energy needs. But the U.S. today faces a greatly reduced risk of an oil shortage due to the aggressive development of […]
FPI / September 16, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed on Sept. 9 that a site in Iran that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a year ago called a “secret atomic warehouse” showed traces of uranium that Iran has yet to explain. The UN’s nuclear agency also confirmed that Iran has […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2019 Iran denies it is behind the Sept. 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure, which the United States has described as “an unprecedented attack” on global energy supplies. Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have received financial and logistical support from Iran, claimed responsibility for the attacks on two oil-processing […]
FPI / September 13, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com During his time as head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Jim Mattis had long warned of Iran’s threat to Mideast stability. It was these warnings that ultimately led to his being fired by then-President Barack Obama, who was more likely to placate than punish the Islamic Republic, Mattis says […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2019 Al Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawhairi in a video released on Wednesday, the 18th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, called on Muslims to carry out new attacks on targets in the United States, Europe and Israel. “If you want jihad to be focused solely on military targets, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2019 The Obama administration had a history of compromising intelligence assets, misjudging loyalties of informants and leaking key details of covert operations to the media, a report said. Following reports that in 2016 the CIA decided to extract an agent from Russia, Washington Times security correspondent Rowan Scarborough noted that […]