Iran’s repeated attacks on commercial shipping may ultimately force the United States to take a more aggressive posture by reviving its maximum pressure campaign against the Tehran regime. Following...
The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran was meant to secure a 60-day ceasefire. Instead, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly attacked commercial vessels operating in...
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for a major cash infusion for the Iranian regime. On June 22, the Treasury Department issued General License (GL) X, a 60-day authorization for the...
Opponents of U.S. sanctions often cite Cuba as “Exhibit A” for why sanctions don’t work. The United States has maintained an embargo on the island for more than six decades — but to what end? Cuba’s...
“Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up,” President Donald Trump declared Wednesday. An apparently shocking statement about a nation long regarded as...
Excerpt In October 1775, John Adams sat in Philadelphia, directing a rebellion. The British Empire commanded the most formidable fleet on the planet. The colonies possessed nothing resembling a navy,...
Excerpt President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping left their Beijing summit speaking the same language. The official White House readout issued Sunday mirrored Xi’s...
A bombshell report this week laid bare a startling truth: Hong Kong is the lifeline for the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies. Hong Kong-registered shell companies are funneling billions...
Iran-backed militias work through politicians, front companies, and oil smugglers to siphon billions of dollars from the Iraqi people each year in schemes to enrich both themselves and the Islamic Republic...
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The bombs may have stopped falling on Iran — for now — but that doesn’t mean the regime isn’t still under attack, including its illicit oil trade with China. The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday...
The European Union is stepping up enforcement against Russian sanctions evasion. Brussels has now implemented its largest set of designations against Moscow in two years, targeting the Kremlin’s enablers...
Defense Secretary Says UK Tracked Russian Subs: UK Defense Secretary John Healey revealed on April 9 that the British armed forces, in cooperation with Norway and other allied nations, had tracked three Russian submarines off the British coast for over a month. Healey said that the purpose of the operation was to gather information about underwater infrastructure, including cables and pipelines. “Our armed forces left them in no doubt that they were being monitored, that their movements were not covert, as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin planned,” Healey said.
Israel Strikes Iran’s Largest Petrochemical Plant: The Israeli Air Force launched strikes against Iran’s largest petrochemical plant, Asaluyeh, on April 6. According to Israeli...
Tens of billions of dollars have been siphoned out of the Iranian economy by the Islamic Republic’s insiders over the past decade. If the U.S. wasn’t watching then, it is now. “We...
President Donald Trump should say the quiet part out loud: China’s years of economic, technological and diplomatic support for Iran did not merely underwrite the regime’s malign activity. It accelerated...
2 Chinese-Flagged Vessels Turned Back: Iran blocked two Chinese-flagged container vessels from transiting the Strait of Hormuz on March 27, according to the MarineTraffic tracking...
Navy Commander Killed: Israel said on March 26 that it had eliminated Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, in the port city of Bandar...