Category: Iran

US Will Not Offer Incentives to Get Iran Back to Negotiating Table on Nuclear Deal

The U.S. State Department reiterated Wednesday that the Biden administration will not offer unilateral incentives to get Iran back to the negotiating table on the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal—which former President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018. “We are not and will not offer any unilateral…


US Charges New York Cosmetics Executive With Iran Sanctions Violations

WASHINGTON—U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday they charged the president of a New York cosmetics company for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to violate U.S. economic sanctions on Iran. Michael Rose, president of Forsythe Cosmetics Group LLC, is accused of skirting U.S. sanctions between 2015 and 2018 by arranging for the export from the United…


US, Iran Expected to Begin Indirect Nuclear Talks in Vienna

VIENNA—Efforts to bring the United States back into the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear program stepped up a gear Tuesday as Iran and the five world powers still in the accord were meeting in Vienna while the United States is due to start indirect talks with Tehran. Friday’s announcement that Washington and Tehran would begin…


CCP Instigating New Round of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy Ahead of 100th Anniversary

Commentary Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on July 1 is a major political event for Xi Jinping and the Chinese communist regime. To add momentum, the regime’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy has come in handy. Wolf warrior diplomacy is a more aggressive, confrontational approach Chinese diplomats use to…


Pakistan Struggles to Stop Thousands of its Citizens From Smuggling Oil From Iran

Thousands of men in Balochistan, the southwestern province of Pakistan, smuggle oil from across the restive border with Iran. While the phenomenon is not new, the Pakistan government has recently ordered the stopping of the illegal trade as fears mount about billions of rupees of loss to the economy. The smuggling of Iranian oil into…


China Signs Economic, Security Agreement With Iran in a Challenge to US

China and Iran signed a 25-year-long “strategic partnership” agreement on March 27, by which both states would cooperate to challenge the United States, such as against U.S. sanctions on selling oil from Tehran to Beijing. The deal covers politics, economy, and security, according to Chinese state-run CGTV. Iranian Tasnim reported the agreement also included judiciary,…


Four Years of Living Dangerously Under Joe Biden, Part 2: China and Iran Make a Deal

Just after Biden’s inauguration, I warned of four years of living dangerously under Joe Biden. The weakness of his policies and person are obvious for all to see. The world then watched Joe Biden’s first press conference. While the American Press fawned over President Biden for partisan reasons, America’s chief adversaries, China and Iran, watched for serious…


Once Tortured in Iranian Jail, Ex-marine Fights Spy Claims

WASHINGTON—After Amir Hekmati was released from Iranian custody in a 2016 deal trumpeted as a diplomatic breakthrough, he was declared eligible for $20 million from a special U.S. government fund as compensation for years of imprisonment that included brutal torture. But payday never arrived, leaving Hekmati to wonder why. The answer has finally arrived: Newly…


Stop Appeasement: We Cannot Afford to Be Weak With Iran

It’s time to get tougher with the Iranian dictatorship—not weaker. Historically, relations between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have never been positive. When Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew Shah Pahlavi in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he had totally fooled President Jimmy Carter and his administration into thinking the new regime in…


Newt Gingrich: Stop Appeasement: We Cannot Afford to Be Weak With Iran

Commentary It’s time to get tougher with the Iranian dictatorship—not weaker. Historically, relations between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have never been positive. When Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew Shah Pahlavi in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he had totally fooled President Jimmy Carter and his administration into thinking the new regime…