Iran and Europe play nuclear chicken
Atlantic Council | Barbara Slavin: Since the US unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, Europe and Iran have…
Tag Archives: Donald Trump
Trump extends 1979 national emergency regarding Iran for one more year
Press TV – US President Donald Trump has renewed the national emergency regarding Iran, which was put in place 40 years ago…
Trump and Macron discussed Syria coordination, Iran, trade: White House spokesman
Reuters – U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron on a phone call on Monday discussed Syria, Iran and trade…
Iran has called Trump’s bluff
CNN | Frida Ghitis: The latest news comes from Iran, where the regime has just announced it is injecting uranium into centrifuges…
Trump’s maximum pressure policy on Iran has backfired and experts say it will fail
Independent | Negar Mortazavi: Iran announces fourth step of withdrawal from nuclear deal, moving further away from limits placed on nuclear programme It’s…
Sanders calls on US to rejoin Iran nuclear deal as GOP hawks it up over Tehran’s uranium enrichment
RT – Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders urged for a return to the nuclear accord with Iran in the wake of Tehran’s…
Iran’s response to US economic terrorism opposite of Trump’s belief: FM Zarif
Press TV – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran gives a response to the United States’ policy of pursuing “economic terrorism”…
Trump perfectly shows US’ real, ugly face: Larijani
MNA – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Sun. that Donald Trump’s penchant for disclosing the most covert policies of the White…
Don’t make it about the oil
LobeLog | Paul R. Pillar: Confusion has prevailed regarding the purposes of the U.S. troop presence in Syria, and whether the declared…
Trump is using ISIS leader’s death to distract from his failures. Don’t let him
Euronews | Frida Ghitis: A deadly U.S.-led raidin northwestern Syria has killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Islamic State founder and leader…
‘He died like a dog’: Trump details Daesh leader al-Baghdadi’s last moments
Press TV – US President Donald Trump says Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up, dying “like a dog,” and “like a…
Iran rejects as ‘bluff’ Trump’s threat of war, vows crushing response to slightest mistake
Press TV – Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says US President Donald Trump’s recent threat of a military attack against…
Trump’s plan to keep some forces in Syria is evidence of US’ inconsistent Mideast policy – Analysts
Sputnik News – As convoys of American troops withdrew from northern Syria and crossed into Iraq, US President Donald Trump said on…
IRGC spokesman raps Trump’s military threat, warns of crushing response to any aggression
FNA – Head of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Public Relations Department Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif blasted US President Donald Trump for…
Trump’s Syria pullout divides Iran hawks
Al-Monitor | Julian Pecquet: As Turkish troops fought Kurdish militants over the past week, a parallel but bloodless battle played out among…
Biden raps Trump’s policy on Iran, warns of ‘accidental’ war
MNA – Democratic 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden criticized Trump’s ‘erratic’ approach toward Iran, voicing concern that his would-be competitor President Donald Trump…
How Trump’s sellout of the Kurds threw Iran a lifeline in Syria
Independent | Ahmed Aboudouh: Donald Trump’s decision to pull US forces out of Syria, paved the way for Turkey to push the Kurds…
Burned by Trump, Iranians report negative views of the United States
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: Three new waves of nationally-representative surveys conducted by the University of Maryland over the past six…
Trump’s Syria mess
The Wall Street Journal – What a fiasco. Foreign-policy blunders often take months or years to reveal their damaging consequences, but the…
US imposes sanctions on Turkey over Syria offensive
Press TV – The United States has imposed sanctions on two Turkish ministries and three senior government officials over the country’s military…
Trump’s concern about Iran religious minorities worthless: Iranian Assyrian
Press TV – An Iranian Assyrian Christian says US President Donald Trump’s ostensible concern about the rights of religious minorities in the…
Iran is winning Trump’s foreign policy gamble
The National Interest | Steven R. Kopits: President Donald Trump has sixty days to prevent tensions with Iran from spinning out of…
Imran Khan says Trump asked him to mediate between Iran, US
IRNA – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan referred to his trip to New York and said US President Donald Trump had asked…
Trump’s Syria policy isn’t America first — it’s America alone
Euronews | Dana Stroul: To explain President Donald Trump’s most recent decision to withdrawU.S. forces from Syria, the White House issued a statement…
Trump orders troops and weapons to Saudi Arabia in message of deterrence to Iran
The New York Times – The United States is sending about 3,000 additional troops to Saudi Arabia in the latest military response…
Trump warns Turkey that US allies in Syria must not be harmed
TASS – US President Donald Trump said he had warned Turkey about the inadmissibility of striking US troops or allies in Syria…
‘Disaster,’ ‘Betrayal,’ ‘Mistake’: Republicans slam Trump’s Syria pullout
Euronews | Adam Edelman with NBC News Politics: A long list of Republicans — including several top allies of President Donald Trump — lined…
US ex-diplomat says Iran knows Trump is not trustworthy
IRNA – The former US ambassador to Peru told IRNA that the US President Donald Trump is “unpredictable” and Iran knows well…
Iranian Christians reject US claims on religious minorities’ rights
Press TV – Armenian Christians in Iran say claims made by US President Donald Trump and his administration about the rights of…
Trump’s use of sanctions is nothing like Obama’s
Foreign Policy | PETER E. HARRELL: Two and a half years into Donald Trump’s presidency, there is no doubt that economic sanctions are…
Trump failed to deceive Iran in New York: President Rouhani
Press TV – President Hassan Rouhani says the administration of US President Donald Trump failed to deceive Iran into holding a presidential…
Trump’s close-call diplomacy with Iran’s President
The New Yorker | Robin Wright: On the evening of Tuesday, September 24th, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, went to see…
Will Trump’s bluster force his hand on Iran?
The New York Times – The only solace in the current American standoff with Iran is that President Trump seems not to…
Memo to President Trump: Iran is not about to collapse
The Washington Post | Jason Rezaian: What’s wrong with this picture? Officials in the Trump administration say their maximum pressure campaign against…
Trump rejected Iran’s conditions for meeting Rouhani: Zarif
Press TV – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says it was US President Donald Trump who wasted his chances for a…
Trump’s bullying and intimidation tactics are nothing but outdated
Iranian Diplomacy | Mohammad Zaeri Amirani: After Donald Trump took office in 2016, as had promised during his election campaigns, he violated…
Rouhani says he rejected US offer to lift sanctions made in message to Europeans
Reuters – The United States sent a message to European leaders that it was willing to lift all sanctions on Iran, according…
Trump authorizes travel ban on top Iranian officials, their families
Press TV – US President Donald Trump has authorized his State Department to put a travel ban on top Iranian officials and…
Throwing stones in a glass house: Trump criticizes the world, but his words are best applied to the US
RT | Helen Buyniski: US President Donald Trump had harsh words for socialism, Venezuela, Iran and China in his speech at the…
Pakistan’s Khan says he is mediating with Iran after Trump asked him to help
Reuters – Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump had asked him to help defuse…