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Timeline of U.S.-Iran Tensions Since the 2020 Soleimani Strike
BAGHDAD, January 3 — The targeted killing of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani by a United States drone…
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John Bolton was target of Iranian assassination plot
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The ghost of a foiled assassination plot continues to shadow the public life of…
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Ebrahim Raisi at center of renewed US-Iran tensions
TEHRAN, July 8 — Eight years after he first took office, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi remains a figure…
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Rubio Takes Hardline Stance on Iran as Secretary of State
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The man who now leads American diplomacy on the world stage carries the Miami…
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Background: The 2024 US-Iran Ceasefire and Its Collapse
TEHRAN, July 8 — The 13-month ceasefire between the United States and Iran that brought relative calm to…
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Japan Implements Affirmative Action: Quotas, Targets for Women in Leadership
TOKYO — Japan’s ambition to put women in 30 percent of leadership roles by 2020 has come and…
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US-Iran Tensions: A Timeline of Key Escalations Since 2018
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The United States and Iran remain locked in a pattern of confrontation that began…
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Iran’s Khamenei Guides Policy Amid 2025 U.S. Tensions
TEHRAN, July 8 — For communities across the Middle East and Asia, the figure of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…
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Ali Khamenei: Iran’s Supreme Leader Who Holds Final Say on Nuclear
TEHRAN, July 8 — For more than three decades, Ali Khamenei has been the single most powerful figure…
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$5B Ethiopian Dam Sparks Nile Water Dispute Among Three Nations
ADDIS ABABA, July 8 — For the millions of people who depend on the waters of the Nile,…
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Trump, Khamenei, and Allies Shape Iran-U.S. Conflict
WASHINGTON, July 8 — On the ground in the Middle East, the fragile architecture of the March 2025…
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Key US-Iran figures in military and diplomatic standoff
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group was deployed two days ago, a…
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres Mediates US-Iran Crisis
UNITED NATIONS, July 8 — The corridors of the United Nations have rarely felt so fragile. António Guterres,…
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U.S.-Iran Conflict: Trump, Raisi, and Regional Powers
TEHRAN, July 8 — The contours of power in the Middle East have sharpened into a stark and…
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U.S.-Iran Tensions: 1979 Hostage Crisis to 2024 Ceasefire
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The 2024 ceasefire between the United States and Iran stands as the first formal…
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Iran’s Ex-FM Zarif, Nuclear Deal Architect, Amid Strait Tensions
TEHRAN, July 8 — Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian diplomat who spent years as the public face of…
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Iran, U.S. Navy, Gulf States Key in Strait of Hormuz
MANAMA, July 8 — The figure that matters in the Persian Gulf today is 30: the approximate number…
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Greenland’s Strategic Value: Thule Base to Rare Earth Riches
NUUK, July 8 — The United States has again cast its gaze toward Greenland, a pattern that repeats…
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U.S. Sanctions Since 2018 Hit Iran’s Economy and Oil Exports Hard
TEHRAN, July 8 — The economic landscape for Iran remains constrained as U.S. sanctions, reimposed in November 2018…
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U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Stall Amid History of Failed Deals
VIENNA — The on-again, off-again effort to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran has produced a grim…
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Former NATO Chief Stavridis Wrote on Strait of Hormuz
WASHINGTON, July 8 — James Stavridis has spent decades thinking about the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow funnel…
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U.S. and EU Impose Sanctions on Russia’s Shadow Fleet
BRUSSELS, July 8 — Against this backdrop of grinding war in Ukraine, the transatlantic machinery of sanctions has…
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Qasem Soleimani’s Killing Raised Strait of Hormuz Tensions
WASHINGTON, July 8 — Six years after a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, the…
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Six years on, Soleimani’s killing still shapes Iran-US tensions
BAGHDAD, July 8 — After a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani near Baghdad International…
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