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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Wednesday (July 16) said that Israel’s recent strikes were designed not just to target military figures but to create chaos and ultimately bring down ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is hosting a pair of Arab Gulf leaders at the White House on Wednesday as violence between Israel and Syria renewed doubts about his pledge to impose peace on the ...

Iran's Supreme Leader, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, stated today that Iran "intimidates America," asserting that the Iranian response ...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Israel's attacks during last month's 12-day war were intended to weaken the Islamic republic's system and spark unrest to topple it.

After more than two decades of hard-nosed diplomacy on Iran’s nuclear program, European negotiators are finding themselves ...

The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.

It is also true that the Iranian government has committed its own share of repression and regional antagonism since the ...

The recent strikes could convince Iran and other states that building nuclear weapons is the only way to prevent such attacks ...

For the first time in decades, Iran’s stranglehold on the Middle East has been broken. The Iran-backed network that nearly succeeded in encircling Israel — Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Iraqi ...

The only way to end the possibility that the Iranians will decide to go nuclear—which could set off a very unstable chain reaction of nuclear proliferation in the region, with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and ...

The United States and Iran are poised to return to the negotiating table at a moment when tensions between the two are high ...