Intelligence chiefs ‘naïve’? President says public assessment at odds with Iran policy is ‘wrong’

Intelligence chiefs ‘naïve’? President says public assessment at odds with Iran policy is ‘wrong’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump suggested his intelligence chiefs might want to “go back to school” following their assessment of the threat from Iran, which included the chiefs’ insistence that the Islamic Republic is currently not taking steps toward becoming a nuclear state. The president tweeted on Jan. 30: “The […]

Bolton calls radical Islam ‘top transnational terrorist threat,’ demands full stop to Iran energy exports

Bolton calls radical Islam ‘top transnational terrorist threat,’ demands full stop to Iran energy exports

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2018 Radical Islam represents “the pre-eminent transnational terrorist threat to the United States and to the United States’ interests abroad,” U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said on Oct. 4 as he presented President Donald Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy. The strategy gives greater priority to Iran, which Bolton called “the world’s […]

Pompeo to Kerry: The Iran deal failed, ‘let it go’

Pompeo to Kerry: The Iran deal failed, ‘let it go’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2018 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted former Secretary of State John Kerry for meeting recently with Iran’s foreign minister. “What @JohnKerry has done by engaging with #Iran’s regime, the world’s top state sponsor of terror, is unseemly, unprecedented, and inconsistent with U.S. foreign policy. The deal failed. Let […]

Yemen official credits Trump’s Iran strategy for reduced backing of Houthi fighters

Yemen official credits Trump’s Iran strategy for reduced backing of Houthi fighters

by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2018 Iran’s support of Houthi rebels in Yemen has diminished since President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal and re-imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic, Yemeni officials said. “Any way that support from Iran is lessened is helpful in stopping the war,” Abd-Rabbo Moftah, deputy governor […]

Report: U.S ambassador to Germany plays hardball on Iran

Report: U.S ambassador to Germany plays hardball on Iran

by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2018 The U.S. ambassador to Germany has delivered a blunt message to German companies, either do business with the United States or Iran – but not both. Ambassador Richard Grenell is convincing German companies to go with the U.S. Grenell was instrumental in German car company Daimler’s decision to cancel […]

IRGC chief: Iran leaders will never meet Trump or any U.S. president

IRGC chief: Iran leaders will never meet Trump or any U.S. president

by WorldTribune Staff, August 1, 2018 The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on July 31 said that U.S. President Donald Trump will never get a meeting with Iran’s leaders. “Mr. Trump! Iran is not North Korea to accept your offer for a meeting,” IRGC commander Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said. “Even […]

Iran’s currency falls to record low, discontent speads as U.S. sanctions loom

Iran’s currency falls to record low, discontent speads as U.S. sanctions loom

by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2018 Iran’s rial plummeted to an all-time low on July 30 as the U.S. prepares to reimpose sanctions on the Islamic Republic on Aug. 6. According to foreign exchange website Bonbast.com the Iranian rial traded at 119,000 to the U.S. dollar on July 30, as demonstrations and strikes by truck […]

Trump calls for ‘real’ Iran deal; Analyst sees dead end for regime threats against U.S.

Trump calls for ‘real’ Iran deal; Analyst sees dead end for regime threats against U.S.

by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump, after trading harsh rhetoric with Iran’s president that was reminiscent of his “fire and fury” exchanges with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, said he is prepared to negotiate a new nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. “We’ll see what happens, but we’re ready to make […]

Iran announces reopening of uranium enrichment plant; France warns of ‘red line’

Iran announces reopening of uranium enrichment plant; France warns of ‘red line’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2018 Iran’s reopening of a uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan that had been idle for nine years brings the Islamic Republic close to a “red line,” France’s foreign minister warned. “It is always dangerous to flirt with red lines,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said, though he stressed the […]