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“America First” has been a success — which is why Democrats are struggling to come up with an answer to Donald Trump’s foreign policy.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slammed President Donald Trump’s approach to Iran on Monday, calling him a “schoolyard bully” and demanding, “No war with Iran!”

During Monday’s “New Day” on CNN, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) responded to President Donald Trump’s threats of military action against Iran. Hirono, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Trump is “unpredictable” and “acting like he’s the dictator” he

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a public warning to Iran late Sunday, suggesting it will be the “end” of the Islamic republic  if a conflict breaks out between the two countries.

Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on Sunday sounded off on the United States’ escalating tension with Iran, questioning the president’s intelligence. MSNBC’s “Kasie DC” host Kasie Hunt asked Gallego how much of the foreign policy is being influenced by President Donald

A rocket was fired into Iraq’s capital of Baghdad on Sunday evening, landing less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy, according to a report.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” 2020 presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) warned President Donald Trump was leading us down a dangerous path towards war with Iran. Gabbard said, “The problem that I have seen is that across both Democrat

“They say, ‘confidential sources,’ do you ever notice? They never write the names of people anymore,” he said. “Everything is ‘a source says’ – There is no source, the person doesn’t exist, the person’s not alive, it’s bullshit, ok? It’s bullshit!”

Asked about the differences between Shia extremism followed in Iran versus Sunni extremism, Buttigieg immediately compared radical Islam to Christianity.

Pundit Ibrahim Karagul of Turkey’s Yeni Safak, whose column titles are often longer than entire editorials penned by more sedate writers, delivered a lively presentation of the Turkish ruling party’s view of the Iran crisis with his Friday broadside: “U.S. Won’t Attack Iran, It Will Start a New Arab-Persian War. Two Crown Princes, Two Countries: They Became Hitmen of the Crusaders. But the Big Trap Is Set Against Saudi Arabia.”

Britain’s Foreign Office is advising against all travel to Iran by British-Iranian dual nationals.

“Surgical strikes” by U.S. forces against Iran are needed to curb the Islamic republic’s increasing regional belligerence, a state-affiliated Saudi newspaper has warned.

A tanker allegedly filled with 130,000 tons of Iranian oil docked near the Chinese city of Zhoushan last week, concluding a four-month journey that may violate U.S. sanctions against Iran, depending on what happened to the cargo.

Senators from both sides of the aisle skewered State Department official Andrea Thompson at a hearing on the Trump’s arms control policies.

Reuters on Wednesday quoted two Iraqi security sources who revealed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued warnings about Iran-backed Shiite militia threatening U.S. bases in Iraq with missiles when he paid a surprise visit to Baghdad on May 7.

A top Iranian president aide called U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton “the mustache” this week, declaring he is pushing American President Donald Trump into “war” with Iran.

Iran praised its own self control Wednesday in using “maximum restraint”  against what it called Washington’s “unacceptable” escalation in tensions in the Middle East.

Early word has been mixed on the meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Sochi, Russia, on Tuesday, but the Russians took a moment to thank Pompeo for trying to restore relations between the two countries and mocked his predecessor Hillary Clinton.

Iran’s ambassador to Britain lashed out at the United States on Tuesday, accusing it of dragging Iran “into an unnecessary war” in the Middle East.

Spanish Navy frigate ESPS Méndez Núñez broke away from the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its carrier strike group (CSG) Tuesday as it entered the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran.

The U.S. Embassy in Iraq confirmed Wednesday the State Department has ordered all non-essential, non-emergency government staff to leave the country immediately as tensions with neighbouring Iran increase.

Muslim morality police in Iran have given local men a simple order: avert your eyes from women during Ramadan. Their command comes as part of a widespread crackdown on freedoms by the strict Islamic regime amid U.S. sanctions and growing civil unrest.

On Tuesday’s “MSNBC Live,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discussed tensions between the United States and Iran and stated, “I worry about provocations on the part of the United States against Iran, and I worry very much

President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied the veracity of an anonymously sourced report claiming administration officials are reviewing plans to send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East amid flaring tensions with Iran.

Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that drones laden with explosives, evidently launched from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthi insurgency, attacked two of its oil pumping stations.

The New York Times claimed in a report citing anonymous sources Monday, that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan recently presented the Trump administration a military proposal that could see the Pentagon send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East.

Iranian or Iranian-backed proxies used explosives to blast large holes in four ships moored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a U.S. official said Monday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo postponed a trip to Moscow and went to Brussels instead on Monday, determined to “discuss recent threatening actions and statements by the Islamic Republic of Iran” with foreign ministers of the European Union at their regular meeting.

Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that two of its oil tankers suffered “significant damage” from sabotage attacks off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) near the Strait of Hormuz. The attacks reportedly also damaged two ships from other nations, one of them registered to Norway.

Iran has warned U.S. forces for the third time in 72 hours to cease any further advance into the Persian Gulf, predicting catastrophic outcomes if they do not retreat.