US Treasury Secretary Bessent on Wednesday repeated prior Trump admin threats to get Iran energy exports down to zero, if the Iranians don't cooperate at the negotiating table in achieving a new nuclear deal.
The official stressed that such an action "would have severe consequences for those countries," adding that "Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has placed the Iranian armed forces on high alert."
Millions of people around the world were at the edge of their seats over the weekend, waiting to hear whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff's indirect talks with the Iranian foreign minister would ratchet down tensions or would break down and b
Iran and the United States held their first diplomatic engagement in years on Saturday in the Omani capital of Muscat, with discussions focused on Tehran's nuclear program and the potential easing of US sanctions.
Earlier this week, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump announced he is requesting a record-breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget.
The Trump administration is demanding that Iran give up its strategic missile program as part of any nuclear deal. But Iran's ballistic missiles do not violate international law nor is there any global treaty under which they are banned
President Trump hosts Netanyahu at the Oval Office for an unofficial Press Conference after the official Press Conference was canceled. The markets continue to react to Trump's tariffs, but the agents of chaos and panic are wrong yet again. Stephen
Yemen's Houthis have claimed another shootdown of a US MQ-9 Reaper drone. The Thursday announcement, if accurate, would mark the second such Reaper drone downing by the group within 72 hours.
• https://ronpaulinstitute.org, by George D. ONeill
Donald Trump rode into office--twice now--on a wave of promises to upend the Washington consensus, to drain the swamp of its self-serving mandarins and to keep America out of endless wars.
Since the middle of March, the United States has launched extensive air and naval strikes targeting Houthi installations across Yemen. These strikes killed at least 53 people, including Houthi leaders, and injured many others.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure would destabilize the entire region and urged Washington to de-escalate.
A war with Iran would be 10 to 15 times worse than the Iraq War in terms of casualties and costs… And we would lose. We would undoubtedly lose…. Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
In my article, "The High Price of War with Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the U.S. Economy," I reminded readers of how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been behind the push for America to destroy Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Iran.
A significant amount of US military power has been on the move over this past week, including several B-2 strategic bombers which have landed at the US military base in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean just over 2,000 miles southeast of Iran.
President Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, seeking a new deal with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear program and replace the agreement that Trump withdrew America from during his first term in office.