Surging U.S. oil and gas output bolsters Iran sanctions
Sharply higher U.S. energy production and cooperation with other major energy producers are strengthening the Trump administration’s ability to impose sanctions on Iran. Read More»
Iran’s ‘systematic targeting’ of religious minorities
Recently, Christians in Iran faced a dramatic uptick in arrests — a 1,000 percent rise during 2018. The list includes more than 100 Christians detained for holding Christmas gatherings in their homes. Read More»
On Iran’s Escalating Series of Threatening Actions and Statements
The regime in Tehran should understand that any attacks by them or their proxies of any identity against U.S. interests or citizens will be answered with a swift and decisive U.S. response. Our restraint to this point should not be mistaken by Iran for a lack of resolve. Press Statement Michael R. Pompeo Secretary ... Read More»
First Anniversary of President Trump’s New Iran Strategy
America is not countering Iran alone. Since our withdrawal from the deal, our allies and partners have stepped up to counter Iranian aggression with us. We have acted with countries from nearly every continent to disrupt Iran’s illicit oil shipping operations. The European Union passed new sanctions against Iranian entities in response to two foiled ... Read More»
Latest U.S. sanctions target Iran’s metal sectors
President Trump signed an executive order May 8 that authorizes secondary sanctions on individuals and financial institutions dealing in Iranian metals in order to deny the Iranian regime the cash it needs to fund its terrorist activities around the world. Read More»
Secretary Pompeo’s Remarks to Traveling Press En-Route to London, UK
[We] just took off out of Baghdad. I had two meetings. I was with Ambassador Satterfield, Charge Joey Hood, and Lieutenant General LaCamera. We met with – first with the prime minister and then with President Salih. In each meeting, we went through a number of things. Read More»
Secretary Pompeo’s Remarks to Traveling Press En-route to Baghdad, Iraq
So the reason we’re going is you’ve all seen the reports that there have been escalating – information that indicates that Iran is escalating their activity. I wanted to go to Baghdad to speak with the leadership there, to assure them that we stood ready to continue to ensure that Iraq was a sovereign, independent ... Read More»
Secretary Pompeo Tightens Nuclear Restrictions on Iran
The Trump administration continues to hold the Iranian regime accountable for activities that threaten the region’s stability and harm the Iranian people. This includes denying Iran any pathway to a nuclear weapon. As part of the administration’s unprecedented maximum pressure campaign to address the full range of Iran’s destructive activities, Secretary Pompeo has today tightened ... Read More»
Unconscionable Reports of Secret Executions of Minors in Iran
The Department of State is appalled by the Iranian regime’s secret execution of two 17-year old males, Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, in Adelabad prison in Shiraz, as reported by Amnesty International. According to this report, Iran has resumed its execution of minors, while attempting to keep this inhumane practice hidden from the world. Read More»
Iran sinks in press freedom index
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders says Iran has slipped further toward the bottom of its World Press Freedom Index because of an increase in arrests of Iranian journalists and citizen-journalists. Read More»
The Iranian Regime’s Crackdown on Women Activists
The United States strongly condemns the Iranian regime’s growing crackdown on women advocating for their human rights. We call on the Iranian authorities to end their harassment and imprisonment of women who are simply expressing their conscience and demanding basic rights. Press Statement Morgan Ortagus Department Spokesperson Washington, DC April 30, 2019 The United ... Read More»
U.S.: ‘No exceptions’ for Iranian oil importers
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on April 22 that the United States will end all exceptions for countries currently purchasing oil from Iran. Read More»
Advancing the U.S. Maximum Pressure Campaign On Iran
Fact Sheet Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC April 22, 2019 The United States is not granting any Significant Reduction Exceptions to existing importers of Iranian oil. Maximum pressure means maximum pressure. Secretary Pompeo announced his decision not to grant any Significant Reduction Exceptions to existing importers of Iranian oil. As the Secretary has ... Read More»
More countries join U.S. efforts to curb Iran’s terrorist campaign
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook recently summarized how countries around the world — from Panama to Germany to Singapore — have joined the U.S. in depriving the Iranian regime of resources to further its global terrorist campaign. Read More»
Before and after 1979: Women’s rights in Iran
Before the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iranian women were acquiring rights along with women in other parts of the world. The Iranian Islamic Revolution wiped out those gains. Read More»
U.S. strategy in Iran yields results
U.S.: Iranian regime ‘does not invest in its own people’
At a time when the Iranian people are demanding fiscal accountability, the Iranian regime has spent more than $16 billion propping up Syria’s Assad regime and supporting its other partners and proxies in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Read More»
Senior Administration Officials on Iran
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United States Imposes New Nuclear Sanctions on Iran as it Refuses To Answer Questions Related to Its Secret Nuclear Archive
United States Imposes New Nuclear Sanctions on Iran as it Refuses To Answer Questions Related to Its Secret Nuclear Archive Read More»
U.S. preserves Iranian Embassy for Iranian people [video]
For the past 40 years, the United States has maintained the Iranian Embassy in Washington, anticipating the day the U.S. and Iran will resume diplomatic ties. But the violent regime in Tehran has prevented the resumption of ties. Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State (biography) shares this message ... Read More»
Iran has jailed 1.7 million in Tehran region, report says
Iranian authorities arrested and imprisoned at least 1.7 million of their own people in the Tehran area over the past four decades, and many were executed, a new report says. Read More»
Sanctions Announcement on Iran
The United States today sanctioned an international network by which the Iranian regime and Russia are providing millions of barrels of oil to the Assad regime in exchange for the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force, and for onward transfer to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and ... Read More»
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
On July 14, 2015, the P5+1, the European Union (EU), and Iran reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful. Read More»
DoD Confirms U.S. Strikes Killed Senior Terrorist Operatives
By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity The Defense Department has confirmed the deaths of senior terrorist leaders in Libya and Somalia from recent U.S. airstrikes, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement today. Cook said a Nov. 13 U.S. airstrike in Libya killed Iraqi national Abu Nabil, also known as ... Read More»
DoD’s Dunford Says U.S., Coalition Must Put Continuous Pressure on ISIL
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has grown since 2014, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today, and it is important that the United States and coalition partners continue to put pressure on the terror organization across all domains and with every facet of government. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph ... Read More»
Myths and Facts: Resettling Syrian Refugees
November 25, 2015 Fact Sheet Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC Myth: All Syrian refugees are dangerous. Fact: 2,234 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States since October 1, 2010 (the beginning of fiscal year 2011), and only after the most extensive level of security screening of any category of traveler to ... Read More»
Kerry on Daesh’s Destruction of Historical Heritage in Iraq
06 March 2015 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson Washington, D.C. STATEMENT BY SECRETARY KERRY ISIL’s Destruction of Historical Heritage and Archeological Treasures I am deeply disturbed by reports that ISIL has extended its destruction of Iraq’s historical treasures to the ancient archeological site of Nimrud. These depraved acts are an assault on ... Read More»
Heritage in Peril: Iraq and Syria
The damage and looting of historic sites in Iraq and Syria are rapidly destroying all evidence of ancient life and society. Fragile sites and buildings have suffered as collateral damage to battles, targets for purposeful ideological destruction, and prey for systematic looting. More than 90 percent of Syria’s cultural sites are inside areas of ... Read More»
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