By Russ Read Iranian state media makes a constant point to push Sen. Bernie Sanders to the masses, but Iranians are quite worried about the possibility of a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump presidency. No prior U.S. election has infatuated Iran as much as the 2016 U.S. presidential race, according to Nasser Karimi, an Associated Press journalist based…
Russ Read The Iranian elections are being hailed as a victory for moderates, and therefore President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, but according to experts, the so-called moderate victory is not what it seems. Iranians took to the polls Friday in what could be one of the most important elections in the country’s history. As soon as…
By Russ Read The U.N. body charged with protecting the rights of children has told the government of Iran that its laws allowing sex with girls as young as 9-years-old and capital punishment of minors must be changed. The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child announced it’s condemnation of Iran’s practices Thursday after…
Underscoring the seriousness of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, former Sec. Defense Robert Gates says it is highly likely that America’s enemies accessed classified information from Clinton’s email. The remarks from Gates follow comments from the Inspector General that confirm Clinton’s server contained information from the nation’s most secret intelligence. In an interview with…
Unlike Mike Huckabee, Senator Rand Paul only had praise for the release of four Americans from Iran on Saturday. After learning about it, he broke the news to a crowd at a town hall in Manchester, NH, then ripped into those who favored war over diplomacy. “It was done, I think, because even though Iran…
Russ Read The Obama administration officially started sanctioning 11 entities with ties to Iran’s ballistic missile program. Sunday’s sanctions were initially announced Dec. 30 as a response to two missile tests conducted by Iran last year. The delay in application came after the administration caved to extensive pressure from the Iranian government, according to U.S. and…
Russ Read Major world events have made headlines throughout 2015, but not all of them were expected. ISIS, unsurprisingly, continued to wreak havoc in the Middle East. China continued to assert dominance in the South China Sea, literally creating islands where once there was nothing but water. Vladimir Putin continued to run roughshod over Ukraine,…
Blake Neff An Iranian rocket was fired within 1,500 yards of an American aircraft carrier last week, U.S. defense officials confirmed Tuesday. The stunt is the latest sign of tough relations between the U.S. and the Islamic regime in Iran. The USS Harry S. Truman is currently stationed in the Persian Gulf, where it is supporting…
Andrew Follett Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a dam approximately 20 miles from New York City in 2013, according to a Sunday report by the Wall Street Journal. When the White House was alerted, officials wrongly believed a much larger facility in Oregon had been hacked. The Iranian hackers likely gained access to the New York dam through a cellular modem,…
Jacob Bojesson Iranian explosives killed 196 service members between 2003 and 2011 in Iraq, according to a U.S. Central Command report. The report, described to The Washington Free Beacon, states that at least 196 U.S. troops have been killed and another 861 have been wounded from a total of 1,534 attacks. The Obama administration received a lot of…