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Global recession and financial crisis could hit if the Israel-Hamas war pulls in the US and Iran, Wall Street veteran says
The US economy faces a raft of risks including escalating wars, surging oil prices, slumping consum…
Theron Mohamed  Â
Iran's missile attacks showed some calculated restraint. What will Israel's response be?
Iran fired hundreds of exploding drones and missiles toward Israel. It also telegraphed its respons…
Peter Gelling  Â
A GOP politician tried to use the Iran hostage crisis to help Reagan in the 1980 election. The man who accompanied him wants to come clean to Jimmy Carter: 'History needs to know that this happened'
It took four decades for Ben Barnes to come forward with the story but he said he wanted to correct…
Hannah Getahun  Â
How a disastrous mission in Iran 40 years ago changed the way US special operators fight
On November 4, 1979, Iranians stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage. The fa…
Stavros Atlamazoglou  Â
How a daring daylight raid broadcast on live TV made the elite British SAS back into a household name
Operation Nimrod was a success, and because much of it was caught on live television, it propelled …
Stavros Atlamazoglou  Â
In 1980, a 34-year-old Donald Trump said the US should invade Iran in response to the hostage crisis
The Iranian hostage crisis began in November 1979 amid the Islamic revolution that saw Iran transit…
John Haltiwanger  Â
Trump shared video footage of Iraqi demonstrators storming an Iranian consulate on the 40th anniversary of the US-Iran hostage crisis
According to Al Jazeera, protestors scaled concrete barriers and took down Iranian flags, replacing…
Sahar Esfandiari  Â
Former US ambassador who was hostage during 1979 Iran crisis said he wants 'nothing to do' with Trump's threats toward Tehran
Trump said the 52 targets represented the "52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago," allu…
John Haltiwanger  Â
USMNT captain Tyler Adams' press conference highlighted the tense drama ahead of the huge US-Iran match
The US-Iran World Cup match has massive soccer stakes, but geopolitical tension is also coursing be…
Scott Davis  Â
Gen. Mark Milley reportedly warned Trump not to strike Iran: 'You're gonna have a f---ing war'
Milley wondered why Trump's advisors wanted to attack Iran. "Because they are evil," Vice President…
Oma Seddiq,John Haltiwanger  Â
On The 35th Anniversary Of The Iran Hostage Crisis, The CIA Breaks Down Facts Vs. Fiction In The Film 'Argo'
On Nov. 4, 1979, militants invaded the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. Six of …
Karyne Levy  Â
One of Iran's vice presidents has been infected with coronavirus
President Donald Trump has faced bipartisan criticism over his approach to coronavirus thus far, an…
John Haltiwanger  Â
Why the US and Iran have been adversaries for 4 decades
Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah …
John Haltiwanger  Â
Trump lit a fire by exiting the Iran Deal and poured gasoline on it by killing Soleimani
The United States chose to withdraw from a carefully negotiated nuclear deal that was working and t…
Gary Sick, Responsible Statec…  Â
Trump's new national security adviser is the hostage negotiator he sent to Sweden for A$AP Rocky's trial
O'Brien made headlines over the summer after Trump sent him to Sweden amid rapper A$AP Rocky's tria…
John Haltiwanger  Â
Another senior politician has died of coronavirus in Iran, where 8% of the entire parliament is infected
"We have made offers to the Islamic Republic of Iran to help," Secretary of state Mike Pompeo told …
David Choi  Â
Republicans have wanted the US to go to war with Iran for years despite Trump's claims to the contrary
Washington has long feared what might happen if the Iranian regime developed a nuclear weapon. Iran…
Eliza Relman  Â
Trump and Iran may be on the brink of a war that would likely be devastating to both sides
In many ways, the modern US-Iran relationship began via a CIA-orchestrated coup in the 1950s that p…
John Haltiwanger  Â
Iran would target US military personnel and bases to avenge Soleimani's death, top Iranian general warns
Soleimani was arguably Iran's most powerful military and political figure, and the architect of the…
Tom Porter,Tom Porter  Â
Simple economics show how Trump is beating up on Iran without firing a shot
On the eve of renewed sanctions by Washington, Iranian protesters trample on an Israeli flag during…