Iran

The Wuhan coronavirus spread further through Iran on Friday, with a total of 13 new cases reported in several other cities besides Qom, where the first infections were reported this week. There may also be an Iranian connection to what Canadian officials described as a “sentinel event,” the first confirmed case of infection in a person who has never visited China or had contact with people who did. The Canadian patient did recently travel to Iran.

Iranian despot Ayatollah Ali Khamenei implored the nation to participate in Friday’s parliamentary elections, calling them “response to the chicanery and deception” of the United States.

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division who deployed to the Middle East in January amid a crisis with Iran arrived home on Thursday.

Iran reported at least three more cases of the Wuhan coronavirus on Thursday, adding to the two cases confirmed on Wednesday. According to Iranian state media, two of the infected persons have died from the disease.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Thursday in a visit focused primarily on discussing shared security concerns about regional rival Iran.

All of “impotent” Israel’s military positions are now within range of Iranian attack, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Major General Hossein Salami, warned Tuesday.

Iranian officials on Wednesday announced the country’s first two cases of the Wuhan coronavirus. No official information about the individuals or how they contracted the disease was provided.

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, on Sunday called for a boycott of American goods to protest President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan.

China steals Western capabilities, intimidates smaller nation states and seeks “advantage by any means and at any cost,” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper cautioned on Saturday as he cast the world’s most populous nation as a disruptive threat to world order.

A group of Iraqi women joined ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on Thursday — a daring exercise given both cultural stigmas against women participating in politics and the proclivity of Iran-backed Shiite militia thugs and Iraqi government security forces for murdering demonstrators.

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Iran-backed Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, lamented on Iranian television on Thursday that he could not trade his life for that of Major General Qasem Soleimani, eliminated in a U.S. airstrike in January.

The USS Normandy, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, intercepted a small sailing vessel in the Arabian Sea over the weekend and found it loaded with Iranian weapons bound for the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The weapons included 150 anti-tank missiles and three surface-to-air missiles, plus a supply of components useful for maintaining unmanned aerial vehicles.

President Trump should not just veto the Iran War Powers resolution. He should veto it with 55 pens, and send one to each of the Senators who voted for it.

A U.S. federal indictment unsealed on Thursday charged Chinese telecom giant Huawei and four of its subsidiaries with “a pattern of racketeering activity” that included stealing trade secrets from other corporations.

The Senate passed a War Powers resolution on Thursday that would require President Donald Trump to obtain approval from Congress if he were to continue hostilities with Iran beyond 30 days.

The United Nations reported on Tuesday that a huge new wave of displaced civilians is pouring out of Syria’s Idlib province, driven out by intense Syrian and Russian military efforts to crush the last rebel forces and increasing tensions between Turkey and Syria. According to the U.N., the refugee situation in Idlib is the worst it has been since the beginning of the Syrian civil war.

Forget World Wars I and II, the rise of Communism in Russia and China and the Cuban missile crisis: the single biggest moment of the 20th century was the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian official who was the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned that Iran is just looking for an excuse to “raze Tel Aviv to the ground,” accusing Israel of helping the U.S. in its assassination of top commander Qassem Soleimani.

The Pentagon on Monday afternoon updated its numbers on how many U.S. service members suffered from mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) after Iran fired ballistic missiles at an Iraqi base where they were stationed.

TEL AVIV – Israel and the U.S. will work together to combat Iranian terror in the Middle East, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said following a trip to the U.S., with the task being divvied up so that Jerusalem will work to curb Iran’s entrenchment in Syria while Washington will combat the Islamic Republic’s presence in Iraq.

Iran started counting down Sunday to the launch of a new scientific observation satellite scheduled within hours, the country’s telecommunications minister said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded when asked during Friday’s Democrat debate in New Hampshire if he would have also ordered an airstrike on Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Qasem Soleimani by saying that the United States should largely lean on the United Nations to “work out our differences.”

Biden said he would not have ordered the strike against Iranian terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani if he were president.

ABC moderator David Muir questioned Buttigieg as to whether or not he would have ordered the strike on Qasem Soleimani if he had the chance.

Family members of troops who deployed to the Middle East amid tensions in Iran have been told by leadership their loved ones are redeploying home.

Iranians who fled the Islamic Republic after facing persecution and prison sentences for their Christian faith said in remarks to Breitbart News this week that the majority of people in Iran support President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani.

Reuters on Wednesday reported on the exploits of Charming Kitten, a hacker group linked to the Iranian government that poses as journalists and attempts to trick victims into divulging passwords and other security information.

TEL AVIV – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s “foolish” peace plan will “die” before the American leader does.

President Donald Trump honored the family of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq during his State of the Union speech Tuesday, assuring them that the “evil reign of terror” of the man responsible for the murder, Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani, was over.

Iran has sentenced a man to death for allegedly spying for the CIA and attempting to share information about Tehran’s nuclear program, authorities said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.