The US Treasury is offering whistleblowers up to 30% of collected penalties for information leading to enforcement actions over Iran-related sanctions evasion or money laundering, as Washington seeks intelligence on Tehran’s financial networks abroad.
Iranian security forces committed crimes against humanity in their crackdown on nationwide protests, a UN fact-finding mission said on Thursday, citing mass killings, torture and arbitrary detention.
US officials met representatives of Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in Oman over the weekend, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing five sources familiar with the matter, days after the group seized a strategic stretch of Yemen's Red Sea coast.
A newly disclosed US operation that sent more than 90 American troops into Iran to rescue an airman shot down during the war drew ridicule from Iranians online over the Revolutionary Guards’ failure to find him before his extraction in April.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Iran was probably responsible for the aerial attack that shut Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, while predicting that the war with Tehran would end “very soon.”
US President Donald Trump this week repeated the boldest promise of the Iran war, that when Washington is "finished," Iranians should take over their government. In February the sentence stunned. On Wednesday it barely registered, and the silence is the story.
Iranian missiles damaged several American military aircraft at a base in Jordan this week, a US official told Reuters, underscoring the continuing ability of Iranian strikes to penetrate US defenses after more than six months of war.
Even the possibility that Iran could put mines into one of the world’s most important shipping routes can deter commercial traffic and force the US military to maintain constant surveillance, former CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel told Iran International.
Donald Trump’s renewed call for Iranians to rise up against the Islamic Republic has revived a question among some of those he is urging into the streets: after months of shifting US policy, can they trust Washington to stand by them if they do?
US Central Command said Wednesday it was looking into Iranian state media reports that a US strike hit a wedding in southern Iran, while rejecting allegations that American forces target civilians.
Donald Trump’s question about when Iranians would rise against the Islamic Republic drew thousands of responses arguing that fear of renewed repression, doubts over US policy and insufficient outside support are holding back another uprising.
Iranian hackers have targeted not only US water systems but also telecommunications, energy and other infrastructure in recent weeks, NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing four people with access to government and industry cyberthreat information.
Iranian banks and businesses continue to operate in Dubai despite Washington’s demand that countries sever their remaining economic links with Tehran, exposing the difficulty of isolating Iran from one of its most important commercial hubs, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Iranian state television has broadcast a segment describing efforts to reach President Donald Trump’s son Barron and referring to a $10 million reward, an unusually explicit threat against a member of the US president’s immediate family.
With the 60-day period set by the June US-Iran memorandum now over and no final agreement in place, Washington faces a choice between intensifying pressure, renewing major strikes or settling into a prolonged and unstable holding pattern.
President Donald Trump has halted diplomatic engagement with Iran until further notice, the White House said on Tuesday, as Tehran hardens its position over the Strait of Hormuz and presses Washington to meet its demands.
Sanctions can make Iran’s military and nuclear activities costlier and more difficult but cannot bring down the Islamic Republic on their own, former US Treasury official and weapons procurement expert Kerri Bitsoff told Iran International.
US Democrats appear to be sharpening their attacks on President Donald Trump over the economic fallout from the Iran war as rising fuel and household costs become an increasingly potent issue ahead of November’s midterm elections.
A senior adviser to the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Tehran could deliberately prolong the war until US President Donald Trump leaves office to wear down its adversaries and deter future attacks.
Ending the Iran war could expose the Islamic Republic to one of its greatest vulnerabilities, experts say, as Tehran confronts a battered post-war economy that may strain its ability to finance the institutions underpinning its rule.
Washington likely underestimated Iran’s ability to withstand the initial US-Israeli strikes, making a negotiated settlement harder to achieve and deepening mistrust, foreign-policy expert Paul Saunders told Iran International.
President Donald Trump's latest order to investigate leaks about US munitions stockpiles may look like another dispute between the White House and the American media. In Tehran, it is being read as vindication.