The Wall Street Journal | Yaroslav Trofimov: The U.S. has sought to pull back from the region after a series of setbacks and mistakes, but a range of national interestsand the need to maintain global standinghave kept American forces on the ground Ever since the national trauma of the war in Iraq, both winning presidential candidates have run ...

BBC - Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador in the US. Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of "diplomatic vandalism",according to the Mail on Sunday. The paper says the memo was written after the then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appealed to ...

The Washington Post | George F. Will: Difficulties with Iran will recur regularly, like the oscillations of a sine wave, and the recent crisis if such it was, or is illustrates persistent U.S. intellectual and institutional failures, starting with this: The Trump administrations assumption, and that of many in Congress, is that if the president wants ...

RT - As tensions ratchet up between Washington and Tehran, the internet is taking a moment to appreciate the irony of some of President Donald Trumps old tweets warning that Barack Obama was stoking war on Iran to stay in office. Some of Trumps tweets from Obamas first term are coming back to haunt him again in light of the eerie similarities between ...

blogs.lse.ac.uk |Hossein Mousavian: Three years ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that Iran had met its nuclear related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed between with China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany in July 2015. The announcement triggered the lifting ...

Al-Monitor - United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered his much-anticipated Cairo speech on Jan. 9. The speech, delivered at the American University of Cairo, was supposed to be a rebuke of President Barack Obamas policies and an overall of condemnation of Iran. Pompeo mentioned Iran 27 times during his speech far more than any other ...

FNA - Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alavi refuted US President Donald Trump's claim that the Obama administration had sweetened the 2015 nuclear deal by granting US citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, including government officials. The report is a "lie", Alavi said, addressing Iranian legislators at the parliament in Tehran on Tuesday....

The Washington Post | Glenn Kessler: The Democrats and President Obama gave Iran 150 Billion Dollars and got nothing, but they cant give 5 Billion Dollars for National Security and a Wall? President Trumpin a tweet, Dec. 12, 2018 This is an egregious version of a claim that President Trump has made repeatedly about 30 times,according to our database ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has lied again about Iran in an effort to trick the Democrat-led House of Representativesto agree to pay for the southern border wall. In a fallacioustweet on Wednesday, Trump wrote that Democrats and President Obama gave Iran 150 Billion Dollars, arguing that they should pay $5 billion for the Mexico border ...

FNA - Washington - during both the Obama and Trump administrations - has been a co-belligerent with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the failed war on Yemen. Of course, that hasnt stopped Washington from blaming Iran for the death and destruction there! Discussing the US-backed Saudi invasion of Yemen, Pompeo has just declared Iran ...

Press TV - The US Secret Service has intercepted "potential explosive devices" that were sent to former US President Barack Obama and former presidential candidate and first lady Hillary Clinton. The explosives sent to Clinton were found late Tuesday while the one addressed to Obama was found early Wednesday, the Secret Service said in a statement ...

FNA - Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali said that former US President Barack Obama was the first-ever president who ordered and acknowledged the responsibility for the cyber attacks against Iran's nuclear infrastructures. Operation Olympic Games was a covert and still unacknowledged campaign of sabotage ...

Bloomberg | Heesu LeeandDebjit Chakraborty: Oil buyers who viewed Obama-era policies as precedent for U.S. sanctions on Iran are getting a rude shock. A Trump administration demand that oil purchases should stop has blindsided Asian importers who assumed they would only have to reduce shipments from the Persian Gulf state. Now, one after another,...

Sputnik - Participants of the Iranian nuclear deal have confirmed their commitment to the deal. Speaking after a meeting in Vienna on Friday, the participants expressed their determination to carry on implementing the accord. Sputnik discussed the issue with Foad Izadi, a professor of political communication with the University of Tehran. Sputnik:...

CNBC - Former PresidentBarack Obamacriticized PresidentDonald Trump's decision Tuesday topull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, was negotiated and implemented during Obama's presidency. The U.S. withdrawal fulfills a Trump campaign promise. The 2015 pact lifted sanctions on Iran that crippled ...

Sputnik News- Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Syrian forces have completely defeated Daesh on both banks of the Euphrates river in Syria. US President Donald Trump believes that Russia and Iran have been engaged inthe Syrian crisis because offormer US President Barack Obama's lack ofdetermination. "He ...

MNA Russian foreign minister says there is little difference between policies of Trump and Obama. The actions of US President Donald Trump's team are similar to the policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview, state-run RIA news agency reported on Thursday. "Unfortunately, many actions ...

Press TV - A former senior aide to ex-US President Barack Obama has rejected the narrative by current American administration officials that Iran is violating the spirit of a 2015 nuclear deal even as it is in technical compliance with it. This notion that somehow Iran is in violation of the spirit of the deal... Theres no spirit of the deal....

Politico | NAHAL TOOSI:As President Donald Trump threatens to blow up the Iran nuclear deal, Obama administration alumni are mobilizing to defend it. One-time aides to Barack Obama are holding meetings, contacting lawmakers and working the media in an urgent bid to prevent the dismantling of one of the former presidents signature foreign policy ...

IRNA - With the war of words between Iran and the United States taking on an increasingly bellicose tone, there is increasing concern across Europe that the nuclear deal overseen by the Obama administration in 2015 is unravelling. Recently, the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, told Iranian parliament that Donald Trump was not a good partner and ...