President-elect Joe Biden has said he plans for the U.S. to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal he helped establish under the Obama administration in 2015. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib explains Continue Reading
Iran began the burial of slain nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in a cemetery in northern Tehran on Monday, state TV reported, as the defense minister promised the Islamic Republic would Continue Reading
Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, killed in an attack outside Tehran on Friday, was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear Continue Reading
A top Iranian nuclear scientist, widely viewed as the father of the country’s nuclear program, was shot and killed on Friday, dealing a blow to Tehran’s atomic ambitions and threatening Continue Reading
A brazen killing took place in an ambush. Iran’s top nuclear scientist, who American and Israeli intelligence have long charged was behind secret programs to design an atomic warhead, was Continue Reading
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the assassination of the Islamic Republic’s top nuclear scientist, who the West and Israel believed was the architect Continue Reading
The Iraqi government is on edge as the Trump presidency enters its final weeks, fearing that a last-minute confrontation between the United States and Iran could erupt on Iraqi soil. Continue Reading
U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was deployed to the Gulf this week, days before the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, although the U.S. Navy said on Saturday the deployment Continue Reading
President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the White House on March 20. As the sun sets on Donald Trump’s presidency, one piece of potentially dangerous unfinished business Continue Reading
With just weeks to go until President-Elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on January 20, Axios reports that Israel is preparing for the possibility that Trump will launch a preemptive attack Continue Reading
President-elect Joe Biden introduced nominees for his national-security team during an event in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday. Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images European powers are looking to the incoming Biden administration Continue Reading
The German government says the foreign ministers of Britain, France, and Germany are meeting in Berlin on November 23 for talks focusing on the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, days Continue Reading
The US Treasury Department Nov. 18 leveled sanctions against Iran’s Islamic Revolution Mostazafan Foundation, a conglomerate of holdings in Iran’s economy, including the energy sector. Not registered? Receive daily email Continue Reading
President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attacking Iran’s main nuclear site, but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step, a U.S. Continue Reading
President Trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks. The meeting Continue Reading
Iran is continuing to build up its stockpile of low-enriched uranium and now holds roughly 12 times the amount permitted under the 2015 nuclear agreement, the United Nations Atomic Agency Continue Reading
Iran said on Wednesday that its oil exports have averaged between 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) and 700,000 bpd since the start of the Iranian year in March, yet analysts Continue Reading
The net present value of Iran’s supergiant South Pars natural gas field has jumped from an estimated US$116 billion at this point last year to US$135 billion now, a senior Continue Reading
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Nov. 8 said the new US administration has a chance to return to its “international obligations,” signaling he may be open to a new JCPOA Continue Reading
An Iranian oil tanker Forest is anchored off the dock of El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, on Sept 29. The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a set of Continue Reading
Four Iranian gasoline cargoes that were bound for Venezuela but seized by the US earlier this year have been sold in a forfeiture auction for more than $40 million, the Continue Reading
The Trump administration on Thursday rolled out another pre-election battery of sanctions and other punitive actions against Iran, blacklisting Iranian and Chinese energy companies and announcing forfeiture actions against two Continue Reading
The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions on Iranian entities, this time including the Petroleum Ministry, the National Iranian Oil Company, and the National Iranian Tanker Company. These were sanctioned Continue Reading
The United States on Monday imposed fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic’s oil sector, including the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, in Washington’s latest move to increase pressure on Tehran. Continue Reading
Iran’s oil minister said on Twitter on Monday that Tehran’s oil industry will not yield to pressure from the United States. Minister Bijan Zanganeh said U.S. sanctions against him and Continue Reading
The Trump administration on Monday imposed counterterror sanctions on Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum, the National Iranian Oil Company and its tanker subsidiary in a pre-election move that analysts say will Continue Reading
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration plans a pre-election volley of sanctions against Iran intended in part to fortify its pressure campaign against any future effort to unwind it, according to people familiar Continue Reading
Iranian tankers are hiding in Iraqi waters to do their ship-to-ship transfers of crude oil to avoid U.S. sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reports , citing documents and U.S. officials. Continue Reading
Iran has decided to use local firms to develop a large offshore natural gas field, which was discovered by an Indian company and set to be developed by a group Continue Reading
Following the end on the 18 th of October of the 13-year United Nations’ embargo on Iran buying or selling weapons, the roll-out of the military component of the 25-year Continue Reading
With sanctions on Iran still in place following the U.S.’s unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May 2018, Tehran has been relying on the tried-and-tested Continue Reading
While the world looks to next month’s U.S. election for clues on the future of the standoff with Iran, candidates are preparing for another vote that may prove just as pivotal. Next Continue Reading
Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto, via Getty Images In 2003, when an earthquake killed thousands in the Iranian city of Bam, President George W. Bush set aside years of animosity and sent an Continue Reading
Iran and Iraq have agreed to settle Iraq’s energy debt to Iran through a barter deal, under which Baghdad would supply Tehran with needed medicine and staples, Iranian state news Continue Reading
The Iranian rial fell to a new low against the U.S. dollar on Sunday as a record daily death toll from COVID-19 compounded concerns over new U.S. sanctions which may Continue Reading
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces the Trump administration’s restoration of sanctions on Iran last month. The Trump administration has decided to impose new sanctions on Iran’s financial sector in Continue Reading
It is no coincidence that just over a month after Israel and the United Arab Emirates declared that they would normalise relations and Israel and Bahrain did the same, Iraq Continue Reading
The United States on Thursday slapped fresh sanctions on Iran’s financial sector, targeting 18 Iranian banks in an effort to further shut Iran out of the global banking system as Continue Reading
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces the Trump administration’s restoration of sanctions on Iran last month. The Trump administration has decided to impose new sanctions on Iran’s financial sector in Continue Reading
With the 25-year deal with China now moving ahead at pace, Iran has a buyer for all of the crude oil it can produce, albeit at discounted levels , so Continue Reading
A gas flare on an oil production platform in the Soroush oil fields is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Persian Gulf, Iran, July 25, 2015. (Reuters Photo) The Continue Reading
A man rides a scooter along Valiasr Square in Tehran on Sept. 27. The Trump administration is considering fresh sanctions to sever Iran’s economy from the outside world except in Continue Reading
Iran has received gold from Venezuela for the fuel cargoes Tehran had sent to the Latin American country, a commander at Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said over the Continue Reading
Iran is estimated to have exported nearly 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and condensate so far in September, TankerTrackers told Reuters , in what would be Continue Reading
The cargoes of Iranian gasoline that the United States seized more than a month ago continue to idle off the U.S. Gulf Coast amid a court battle over ownership of Continue Reading
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) of Iran opened this week a new naval base in a coastal town along the world’s most important oil chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz, Continue Reading
After defying U.S. sanctions by shipping a cargo of oil condensate to Venezuela just last week, Iran is using the same ship to help the Latin American country export its Continue Reading
After defying U.S. sanctions by shipping its first cargo of oil to Venezuela just last week, Iran is using the same ship to help the Latin American country export crude. The Continue Reading
Iran has shifted its military strategy regarding U.S. forces in Iraq ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November, reducing the number of rockets launched at bases and potentially withholding Continue Reading
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he expects all U.N. countries to fully comply with Washington’s declaration that “snapback” sanctions from the 2015 nuclear agreement are in effect despite the Continue Reading
