Bloomberg - Iran has sanctioned Richard Goldberg, a former aide to John Bolton and a senior adviser at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran said Goldberg had participated in economic terrorism against Iranian citizens and the government ...

MNA | Mohammad Ghaderi: Richard Goldberg, a Grand Old Party foreign policy expert, is joining the White House's National Security Council as its new Director for Countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction. Earlier in the Obama era, he was the main designer and negotiator of the Congress on Iran's sanctions and resigned after concluding ...

Asharq Al-awsat English - One of Washingtons most vocal critics of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal has joined the Trump administration in a senior policy role, according to several sources in Washington. Richard Goldberg will become Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) at the National Security Council, and he will work closely ...

Al-Monitor - President Donald Trumphas tapped Iran hawkRichard Goldberg to be director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction on the National Security Council, multiple media outlets reported on Monday. As a staffer for former Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., Goldberg helped write legislation that served as the basis for the Barack Obama administrations ...