US Senate advances resolution limiting Trump’s ability to wage war
Reuters – The U.S. Senate advanced legislation on Wednesday intended to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran, paving…
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Trump warns Senate not to approve war powers resolution on Iran
Reuters – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned the Senate against adopting a resolution that would curb his ability to wage…
Trump downplays brain injuries in Iran attack with toll at 109
Bloomberg – President Donald Trump again downplayed the severity of head injuries suffered by U.S. troops during an Iranian missile attack, as…
Time to abandon your delusions: Iran FM tells US president
Press TV – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has hailed the Iranian people’s massive turnout in rallies marking the 41st anniversary of…
Europe worries as Trump seems to lose interest in new Iran deal
Al-Monitor | Laura Rozen: European diplomats working to try to leverage the Donald Trump administration’s Iran “maximum pressure” campaign into a negotiation…
US polarization at its height as Pelosi rips up Trump’s speech
Press TV – Bitter divisions ruling the US political scene were exposed as President Donald Trump was delivering his State of the…
Ayatollah Khamenei: Trump deal to die sooner than Trump himself
Press TV – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Donald Trump’s pro-occupation plan for ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict…
Trump delivers third State of the Union speech
Press TV – US President Donald Trump has delivered his third State of the Union speech, boasting about how great America has…
EU foreign policy chief Borell says Trump peace plan unlikely to succeed
Euronews – Europe’s new foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan was unlikely to succeed as he…
Muslim group OIC rejects Trump’s Middle East plan
Press TV – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has rejected US President Donald Trump’s so-called “deal of the century” on the…
Trump’s anti-Palestine plan will end in dustbin of history: Iran’s IRGC
Press TV – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has denounced a US-hatched American-Zionist scheme, which Washington claims seeks to resolve the…
Trump’s Iran strategy isn’t working as well as he thinks
The Atlantic | Kori Schake: The killing of the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani by drone strike in early January, along with Tehran’s…
Trump is a threat to peace. It is time for the UN to act on uniting Korea instead
Euronews | Bandy X. Lee and Mark Bruzonsky: It’s an historic mistake – potentially catastrophic – to leave the fate of the…
The day Europe told the US to cut out the threats over Iran
Bloomberg – European diplomats drew a line in the sand this month, telling U.S. officials their bullying tactics wouldn’t help marshal support…
Trump’s ‘win-win’ deal for Israel-Palestine is a bit like his ‘100 percent’ defeat of ISIS, not backed by reality
RT | Danielle Ryan: During self-congratulatory remarks about his “deal of the century” to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict, Donald Trump threw in…
Concern in Iran over China commerce as Trump gets trade deal
Bourse and Bazaar – Last week, an official from Iran’s communications ministry received an email from a Chinese supplier informing them that…
The US thirst for oil
Iran Review | Mohammad Ghaderi: Their claims of human rights are hypocritically shown in their unprecedented sanctions in history on the Iranian…
Trump unveils his so-called ‘Deal of the Century’
MNA – US President Donald Trump has unveiled his so-called ‘long-anticipated Middle East plan. The announcement comes after Trump met with Israeli…
‘We Apologize’ for Trump’s aggression, Americans say in letter to Iranians
Tasnim – The peace advocacy group CodePink is collecting American signatures for a letter apologizing to the Iranian people for US aggression,…
Sanctions have often backfired and may yet again
Iran Review | Thomas W. Lippman: In his address to the nation about Iran’s response to the U.S. assassination of a senior…
One in four Americans say Trump should be tried for war crimes over Soleimani assassination
Sputnik News – A new poll has found more than a quarter of Americans believe that US President Donald Trump should face…
Shaheen calls on Trump to apologize for downplaying injuries
AP — Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire on Sunday called on President Donald Trump to apologize for minimizing injuries suffered…
Iran never to talk with terrorists, imposers of sanctions
IRNA – Head of Presidential Office’s Center for Strategic Studies Hesameddin Ashena said that Iran will never hold talks with imposers of…
Zarif: Threats to destroy Iran’s civilization centers, clear case of “cultural terrorism”
IRNA – Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said on Monday that US President Donald Trump’s threat to target Iran’s cultural and civilization centers…
‘Bad Farsi? Try English’: Iran’s Zarif mocks Trump for comments based on Fox headlines & shabby translation
RT – Tehran’s top diplomat has suggested the US president stop sourcing news from either Fox or his hapless Farsi translators, after…
US veteran group ‘expects’ Trump apology for brain injury comment
Reuters – A U.S. war veteran group is “expecting” an apology from U.S. President Donald Trump for his comments that downplayed traumatic…
Zarif hits back at Trump over “No Thanks!” tweet
MNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif struck back at US President Donald Trump for basing his foreign policy on Fox…
Iran has a bitcoin strategy to beat Trump
Foreign Policy | Tanvi Ratna: As the United States expands its sanctions, Iran has been ramping up its use of cryptocurrencies to get…
Biden calls Trump comments on US troop injuries in Iraq missile attack ‘disgusting
Fox News – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden slammed President Trump on Friday for his comments about the injuries suffered by U.S.…
Veterans differ with Trump over injuries from Iran missile attack
The Wall Street Journal | Michael M. Phillips and Nancy A. Youssef: President says U.S. injuries in attack in Iraq weren’t very…
‘Make Trump Small Again’: Swiss protester targets Trump’s helicopter with giant banner
RT – US President Donald Trump is no stranger to protest, but he may not have expected giant banners to great him…
How the US and Iran can work together on their ‘Shared Priorities’
Iran Review | Gary Sick: Near the very end of his speech after the Iranian missile barrage, President Trump made the following…
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy slams Trump for downplaying injuries in Iran attack
CBS News – Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut accused the president of misleading the American public for weeks by denying any U.S.…
War with Iran will be disastrous: Imran Khan to Donald Trump
India Today – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that he has told US President Donald Trump that a war…
Trump acknowledges non-‘Serious’ US injuries from Iran’s barrage
Bloomberg – President Donald Trump acknowledged that Americans were hurt in an Iranian missile barrage to retaliate for the U.S. killing of…
Former US Marine: Soleimani’s assassination is the apotheosis of American ‘Strategy’
The National Interest | Gil Barndollar: A strategy that has achieved the opposite of its promises is a failure. Before another moment…
‘The days of US global hegemony are numbered’: Scholar
Press TV – US President Donald Trump’s brazen “America First” foreign policy has “opened the door to a new alignment of forces.…
The United States’ main allies are abandoning Trump as his threats to world leaders backfire
Business Insider | Adam Bienkov: President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has exposed a growing rift between…
No, Mr. President, it does really matter
The New York Times – After millions of Iranians turned out to mourn the American assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, it…
Germany’s Heiko Maas criticizes US for Iran strategy
Deutsche Welle – The foreign minister has condemned Washington for its handling of the Iran conflict. Maas has advised following Europe’s footsteps…