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U.S. strikes Iraq and Syria following an attack that killed an American contractor and injured U.S. service members - Video
Dec. 30, 2019 -
US carries out precision defensive strikes across 5 sites in Iraq and Syria.
- Source: Fox
China, Iran, and Russia to hold joint naval drills starting Friday
Dec. 26, 2019 -
China, Iran and Russia will hold joint naval drills starting on Friday in the Indian Ocean and Sea of Oman,
China's defense ministry said on Thursday, amid heightened tension in the region between Iran and the United States.
- Source: Jerusalem Post
How the Israel-Iran war might begin
Dec. 6, 2019 - The writer preposes a model that is very similar to Iran’s attack against the Aramco oil facility last September.
The missiles will come in low, after being in the air for almost an hour... People who witness the attack will
remember later that the missiles didn’t fall from the sky. They flew at their target straight, like a bullet.
- Source: Yaakov Katz - Jerusalem Post
Pentagon Considers Sending Several Thousand More Troops to the Middle East to Counter Iran
Dec. 5, 2019 -
The Pentagon is considering sending several thousand additional troops to the Middle East to help deter Iranian
aggression, amid reports of escalating violence in Iran and continued meddling by Tehran in Iraq, Syria and other parts of the region.
- Source: Mathew Lee - Time
Iran developing nuclear-capable missiles, European powers warn UN
Dec. 5, 2019 -
Three European powers have warned the UN that Iran is developing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles in violation of a Security Council resolution.
A letter sent by the UK, France and Germany says Iran tested a Shahab-3 missile variant.
- Source: BBC
Report: U.S., Israel Ramping Up Preparations For War With Iran
Nov. 25, 2019
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln moved into the Persian Gulf... .
But this move also comes as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami
threatened Israel, the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and the UK.
- Source: TruNews
Iran Warns Israel, U.S., Saudi Arabia: Cross Red Lines and We Will Destroy You
Nov. 25, 2019 -
Iran will destroy the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia if they cross Tehran's red lines, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards Hossein
Salami said in a televised speech on Monday.
- Source: Haaretz
Pompeo: Iran behind Islamic Jihad rocket attacks against Israel
Nov. 17, 2019 -
Iran is behind the latest round of Israeli-Gaza violence, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Saturday...
“Iran uses its terrorist proxy Palestinian Islamic Jihad to strike our great ally Israel."
- Source: Jerusalem Post
Iran starts injecting uranium gas into centrifuges, further unraveling nuclear accord
Nov.5, 2019 -
President Hassan Rouhani announced Tuesday that Iran will start injecting uranium gas into centrifuges, further unraveling a nuclear deal with world powers and
effectively advancing the country's ability to make a nuclear bomb.
- Source: Kim Hjelmgaard - USA Today
International community must confront America's hostile approach: Iran president
Oct.1, 2019 -
The international community must confront America’s hostile approach, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on
Tuesday as tensions have spiked between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
- Source:Reuters
Iran ready to accept nuclear deal changes if US lifts sanctions, spokesman says
Sept. 26, 2019 -
Iran is prepared to accept changes to the 2015 nuclear agreement and not seek nuclear weapons if the United States agrees to the
deal and lifts sanctions, a spokesman for Iran said Wednesday... Ali Rabiei said on state TV, according to Reuters.
- Source: The Hill
Iran warns it will 'destroy aggressors' after US troop announcement
Sept. 21, 2019 -
Iran is ready to destroy any country that launches an attack on its territory, a senior military
official has said, after the US announced it was sending troops to support Saudi Arabia.
- Source: BBC
Iranians Threaten 'All-Out War' If Hit With Military Strike
Sept. 19, 2019 -
Iran's foreign minister told CNN the Islamic Republic "won't blink" if it has to defend itself
against any U.S. or Saudi military strike, which he said would lead to "all-out war."
- Source: NewsMax
Trump ups ante with Iran over Saudi oil attack
Sept. 18, 2019 -
President Trump ramped up the pressure on Iran after an attack on a key Saudi oil facility,
telling the Treasury Department to "substantially increase" sanctions on Iran.
- Source: Fox Business
Iranian general says country ready for ‘full-fledged war’ with US
Sept. 15, 2019 -
Amir Ali Hajizadeh warns that American bases up to 2,000 kilometers away are ‘within the range of our missiles,’
after Washington blamed Tehran for Houthi attack on Saudi oil.
- Source: The Times of Israel
(Saudi oil attacks:) US 'ready' to deploy resources from reserves
Sept. 14, 2019 -
In Saturday tweets, Pompeo says "there is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen" and points the finger
at Tehran. He adds, "Iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply."
- Source: Fox 23
Trump signals thaw in US-Iran tensions, says he’s willing to meet Rouhani
Aug. 26, 2019 -
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday at the G-7 summit he would be willing to meet with Iran’s leader under the right
circumstances, a sign simmering tensions between the two nations could soon reach a diplomatic solution.
- Source: Air Force Times
Britain warns of 'serious consequences' if Iran doesn't release seized tanker as regime insists it was 'reciprocal' move
July 20, 2019 -
Britain warned Iran that it’s on a “dangerous path” after its authorities seized a British-flagged tanker in the
Persian Gulf, but the regime insists it was a “reciprocal” measure amid economic sanctions.
- Source: Fox
Iranian IRGC boats tried, failed to seize British oil tanker in Persian Gulf, senior US defense official says
July 10, 2019 -
Five Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf
Wednesday but backed off after a British warship approached, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News.
- Source: Fox
Iran says it has broken uranium stockpile limit set by nuclear deal
July 1, 2019 -
Iran acknowledged Monday it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal,
marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a year after the U.S. unilaterally withdrew.
- Source: Los Angeles Times
Air Force fighter planes sent to Persian Gulf amid heightened tensions with Iran
June 28, 2019 -
The military deployed nearly a dozen Air Force fighter jets to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar this week amid
escalating tensions with Iran and threats against American forces in the region. The F-22 Raptors arrived Thursday.
- Source: Louis Casiano - Fox
Trump Says He's Prepared to Speak to Iran With No Preconditions
June 23, 2019 - President Donald Trump is willing to hold talks with Iranian leaders without preconditions.
“Here it is. Look, you can’t have nuclear weapons. And if you want to talk about it, good. Otherwise you can live
in a shattered economy for a long time to come.”
- Source: Ros Krasny - NewsMax
Trump confirms he called off retaliatory Iran attack ‘10 minutes before the strike’
June 21, 2019 -
President Trump confirmed early Friday that he called off a retaliatory attack on Iran in response to the
downing of a U.S. drone “10 minutes before the strike,” saying the number of expected casualties was not "proportionate"...
- Source: Fox
US Navy drone shot down by Iranian missile over Strait of Hormuz in 'unprovoked attack,' central command says
June 20, 2019 -
U.S. military officials returned fire -- verbally -- hours after Iran blasted a Navy high-altitude drone
out of the sky over the Strait of Hormuz, ... slamming the "unprovoked" strike and Tehran's subsequent "false" justifications for it.
- Source: Fox
White House Planning 'Massive' Tactical Strike Against Iran – Reports
June 18,2019 - Russian headlines may not be correct, but they claim that, following the U.S. deployment of
1,000 additional troops to the Mideast,...
The United States is planning to carry out a "massive" tactical attack on an Iranian target,
a Western diplomat at the UN headquarters in New York has told Israel's Maariv newspaper.
- Source: Sputnik
Pentagon approves sending 1,000 more troops to Mideast as US releases new photos of tanker attack linked to Iran
June 18, 2019 - Some new images purported to show Iranian forces removing an unexploded device from one
of the vessles attacked near Iran.
Hours later, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said he had approved a request from CENTCOM
to send approximately 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East "to address air, naval, and ground-based threats" in the region.
- Source: Fox
Iran says it will break uranium stockpile limit in 10 days
June 17, 2019 -
Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days,
the spokesman for the country’s atomic agency said Monday.
- Source: Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, Associated Press - USA Today
Iran tried to shoot down US Reaper drone that arrived on scene of oil tanker attacks: officials
June 15, 2019 -
An MQ9 Reaper drone was fired on by the Iranians on Thursday shortly after it arrived at
the scene where the MV Altair tanker sent out a distress signal amid the attacks the U.S. says were perpetrated by Iran.
- Source: Fox
Trump on Oil Tanker Attacks: 'Iran Did Do It.'
June 14, 2019 -
"You saw the boat," Trump told Fox News'... "One [of the] mines didn't explode, and it has Iran written all over it.
They successfully took the mine off the boat, and that was exposed... 'Iran Did Do It'
- Source: Newsmax
Oil tanker attacks will inflame conflict between the US, its allies and Iran
June 13, 2019 - Massive explosions on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman are being explored.
As with the earlier attacks on 12 May, news of the latest strikes was again broken by media outlets aligned
to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran, who broadcast images of the attacks within minutes of them taking place.
- Source: The Guardian
US orders new troops to Middle East to counter Iran 'threat'
May 25, 2019 -
The United States said it was deploying 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East to counter
"credible threats" from Iran in a move denounced by Tehran on Saturday as "a threat to international peace".
- Source: Yahoo
US plan may send up to 10,000 troops to Mideast to counter Iranian threats
May 23, 2019 -
The Pentagon on Thursday will present plans to the White House to send up to 10,000 more troops to the Middle East,
in a move to beef up defenses against potential Iranian threats, US officials said Wednesday.
- Source: Times of Israel
Trump Threatens Iran in Tweet as Tension Between 2 Countries Escalates
May 20, 2019 -
President Donald Trump warned Iran not to threaten the United States again or it'll face its
"official end," shortly after a rocket landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad overnight.
- Source: NewsMax
Trump says he hopes for no war as US-Iran tensions escalate
May 17, 2019 -
Asked Thursday if the U.S. was going to war with Iran, the president replied, "I hope not" —
a day after he repeated a desire for dialogue, tweeting, "I'm sure that Iran will want to talk soon."
- Source: Deb Riechmann and Matthew Lee - Fox
Updated Iran Plan Calls For Up to 120,000 Troops
May 14, 2019 -
An updated plan pushed by National Security Adviser John Bolton would send as many as 120,000 troops to
the Middle East if Iran ramps up its work on nuclear weapons or attacks U.S. forces, according to officials.
- Source: NewsMax
Iran Commander: We Are Ready For War With U.S.A.
May 12, 2019 - Amirali Hajizadeh, head of Iran,s aerospace division, said:
“An aircraft carrier that has at least 40 to 50 planes on it and 6,000 forces gathered within it was
a serious threat for us... If [the Americans] make a move we will hit them in the head.”
- Source: Independent
Iran nuclear deal: Tehran may increase uranium enrichment
May 8, 2019 -
President Hassan Rouhani said he would keep enriched uranium stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad.
He also threatened to resume production of more-highly-enriched uranium ... if other signatories did not act to protect Iran from US sanctions.
- Source: BBC
Iranian threat that prompted deployment of US carrier, bombers to Middle East ‘is real’, official warns
May 6, 2019 -
The [US] official’s underscoring of the danger posed by the Islamic Republic comes amid an Associated Press report
in which a source identified “clear indications” that Iranian ... forces were preparing for a possible
attack on American troops in the region.
- Source: Fox
Ceasefire reached after Hamas, Islamic Jihad fire 700 rockets at Israel
May 6, 2019 -
Ceasefire reached after Hamas, Islamic Jihad fire 700 rockets at Israel...
rockets have been fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip since the security situation escalated over the weekend.
- Source: Jerusalem Post
Pence presses EU to leave Iran nuclear pact, says Tehran wants 'another Holocaust'
Feb. 14, 2019 -
Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday called on the European Union to withdraw from the 2015
nuclear pact with Iran, accusing the bloc of trying to undermine U.S. pressure on Tehran's nuclear missile programs.
- The Vice President warns that Iran is trying to bring about “another Holocaust.”
- Source: The Hill
Iran said to put ‘guided warheads’ on missiles that can reach Israel
Feb. 4, 2019 -
Iran has equipped its most advanced, longest-range missiles, which can hit Israel and US bases in the Gulf, with new
precision guided warheads, state media reported Sunday.
- Source: The Times of Israel
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