This image grab taken from a video provided by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard official website via SEPAH News, July 20, 2019, allegedly shows Revolutionary Guard Corps boarding the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz. WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran pushed full steam ahead, each country launching a new round of […]
“Attacking [Venezuela] for any reason,” warned one legal expert, “would violate the most fundamental of all international law.” After U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday morning that President Donald Trump has a “full range of options” when it comes to possible next moves against Venezuela, anti-war critics are wondering what the Democrats […]
“The latest indication that this administration is running full speed directly into a major war with Iran.” In a late Sunday statement warning—without any evidence whatsoever—of “troubling and escalatory” actions by the Iranian government, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton used the scheduled deployment of an American aircraft carrier and bomber task force to the Middle East to […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday his country would start developing intermediate-range nuclear missiles if the United States leaves a key arms agreement and begins developing the weapons as well. Putin told Russian news agencies that a U.S. withdrawal from the treaty would mean Washington has concluded it “has to have these weapons” and that […]