MNA In a tweet message, national security assistant to former US President Barack Obama Ben Rhodes evaluated Trump's Iran policy 'a total failure'. "Its hard to overstate what a total failure Trumps Iran policy has been. Nuclear program resumed. Regional provocations escalated. US isolated," he wrote on December 31. In another tweet, the former ...

Despite Donald Trumps repeated claims that he will dismantle the Iran nuclear deal if he becomes president, a top White House aide expressed confidence on Thursday that the next commander-in-chief, including the presumptive Republican nominee, would preserve the deal in order to prevent a potential military conflict in the Middle East. The way in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says a senior adviser to President Barack Obama won't testify before a House committee about how he promoted the Iran nuclear deal to the public. White House counsel Neil Eggleston says in a letter to the House oversight committee that allowing deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes to testify would threaten ...

Ben Rhodes, the White House aide who led the public push for the Iran nuclear agreement, is defending his handling of the campaign after he was quoted in a New York Times Magazine profileclaiming he created an echo chamber to sell the deal. Rhodes was forced to do damage control late Sunday night after he ridiculed members of the Washington ...

(Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and other senior U.S. officials will head to Capitol Hill next week to brief Congress on the framework nuclear deal with Iran, Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said at a news conference on Friday. By Reuters

[caption id="attachment_128877" align="alignright" width="138"] A strike against ISIL in Kobani, on the Turkey-Syria border[/caption] US Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has confirmed that recent airstrikes struck some of the leaders of the ISIL terrorist group. As you know we did take a strike that successfully hit a number of ISIL vehicles ...

[caption id="attachment_128828" align="alignright" width="212"] Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (L-R), Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, his wife Peng Liyuan and U.S. President Barack Obama arrive for a dinner hosted by the Chinese President at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing, November ...

BEIJINGThe U.S. and other world powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program havent discussed extending talks beyond the Nov. 24 deadline despite remaining gaps in achieving a deal, a senior Obama administration official said Tuesday. What weve been focused on is driving towards, What progress can we make towards an agreement for the 24th? ...

One of the US president's top priorities in his second term in office is to resolve the nuclear issue with Iran, according to a senior White House official. White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told progressive activists earlier this year that striking a nuclear deal with Iran would probably be the biggest foreign policy achievement ...