The Biden administration announced on Monday that they have agreed to a deal with Iran to swap prisoners and in exchange release $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds.
U.S. authorities seized almost one million barrels of Iranian oil that officials claim were illegally smuggled to China earlier this year, according to recent court records.
According to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation, five Americans detained in Iran have been placed under house arrest as the first step in a planned prisoner exchange between Tehran and Washington, D.C., that will include the release of roughly $6 billion in Iranian government assets blocked under U.S. Read more…
With an increase in concerning Iranian activities, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered additional F-35 and F-16 fighter jets, along with the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner, to the Middle East in a bid to monitor key waterways in the region following Iran’s seizure and harassment of commercial shipping vessels Read more…
Iran’s revolutionary guards have forcibly seized a commercial tanker. According to a statement from the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet on Thursday, the commercial ship was said to be allegedly smuggling 900 tons of fuel.
The United States Navy announced that it prevented Iranian warships from seizing two oil tankers in international waters near the coast of Oman on Wednesday.
The architect of Obama’s doomed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and Biden’s top Iran negotiator, Rob Malley, has been placed on unpaid leave amid an investigation into his mishandling of classified documents.
During the Iran nuclear exhibition in Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that the West cannot stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
The Biden administration is slapping more sanctions on Iranians over alleged assassination plots.
The United States government has announced charges on Tuesday, in connection to five cases involving alleged attempts to steal technology for China, Russia, and Iran.