Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iranian official meets mediators in Pakistan as Iran and US keep up a 10th day of attacks
ISLAMABAD | An Iranian official began meetings Tuesday with mediators in Pakistan as diplomats sought to salvage the collapsed interim deal between Iran and the United States, even as both countries continued to launch attacks for a 10th day of renewed fighting. The visit by Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni comes as Pakistan has intensified […]
Iranian official meets mediators in Pakistan as Iran and US keep up a 10th day of attacks
ISLAMABAD | An Iranian official began meetings Tuesday with mediators in Pakistan as diplomats sought to salvage the collapsed interim deal between Iran and the United States, even as both countries continued to launch attacks for a 10th day of renewed fighting. The visit by Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni comes as Pakistan has intensified […]
US launches more airstrikes against Iran after announcing another death of a service member
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | The United States began a new round of airstrikes early Monday targeting Iran after announcing the death of another American service member, and Iran fired missiles toward Jordan that risked widening the conflict into neighboring Israel. Step by step, the U.S. and Iran have inched closer to all-out war as […]
US military launches new airstrikes to ‘swiftly punish’ Iran for deaths of US troops
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | The U.S. military said that it carried out new airstrikes against Iran on Sunday to “swiftly punish” the country’s Revolutionary Guard after an attack on a base in Jordan killed two American service members, left one missing and four requiring hospitalization. The strikes were designed to further degrade Iran’s ability […]
US military says 2 troops are dead and 1 is missing after Iran attacks a base in Jordan
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | The U.S. military on Saturday announced its first troop deaths due to direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war, saying two were killed and another was missing in an attack on a base in Jordan. They were killed Friday as the U.S. and partner forces defended against […]
FACT CHECK: A look at US and Iranian claims of control over the Strait of Hormuz
A focal point of the Iran war is increasingly about who controls the Strait of Hormuz — a narrow, elbow-shaped waterway that for decades was a relatively safe and reliable transit route for Middle East oil and natural gas supplies. By saying that an interim ceasefire gave it the right to establish the terms under […]
Trump suggests a standing order to attack Iran if it assassinates him. But Vance would make the call
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump is suggesting he has left standing orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran ” at levels they’ve never seen before ” if Tehran follows through on its long-standing threats to kill him. But the U.S. government has no way to create an automatic, preauthorized “dead man’s switch” that would […]
US strikes Iran over latest ship attack and Tehran responds by hitting Arab states
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | The United States attacked Iran early Sunday over an Iranian strike on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left one crew member missing. Iran responded with attacks on several countries in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Oman — the […]
Trump threatens Iran with ‘1,000 Missiles’ after ayatollah’s funeral saw open calls for his killing
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | U.S. and Iranian leaders traded threats on Saturday as the interim deal to end the war buckled under crossfire in the Middle East and efforts continued to keep talks going. President Donald Trump overnight made threats on social media of further missile attacks against Iran, after the funeral of Supreme […]
Unclaimed airstrikes target Iran after US attacks, raising questions of who launched them
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | A series of unclaimed airstrikes that hit Iran after the U.S. said it finished its attacks have again raised questions of who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic. The strikes Thursday, just as Iran prepared to bury the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hit areas across southern Iran. […]