The Washington Post | Ishaan Tharoor: Tensions between Iran and the United States continued to build over the weekend. President Trump and his lieutenants accused the regime in Tehran of launching attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week, pointing to apparent video evidence of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded mine ...

June 16, The Iran Project - Following US President Donald Trump's trip to Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a two-day trip to Iranfor what was widely seen as an attempt to calm escalating US-Iran tensions. This was the first visit by an incumbent head of the Japanese government to Iran since 1979. But the premier's efforts ended in flames ...