President Rouhani says Iran to confront acts of mischief in Persian Gulf

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran has the responsibility for securing the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf and will decisively confront any attempt at destabilizing the strategic waters.

Leader says Palestinian resistance heralds 'definite' victory

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has hailed the Palestinian people’s “stunning resistance”, saying it heralds a “definite” victory against Israel.

Zarif says failing to lure Trump into war, Bolton dragging UK into quagmire

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says after failing to lure US President Donald Trump into war with Iran, the B-Team is now trying to drag the UK into a quagmire by stoking confrontation between Tehran and London over a British-flagged tanker seized in the Persian Gulf.

President Rouhani say US has failed on every path taken against Iran:

President Rouhani told a large crowd of people in the northeastern city of Shirvan, in North Khorasan Province, on Sunday that whatever Washington had tried against Iran, including “the harshest of sanctions” — had wound up in failure.

Iran warns UK about ‘consequences’ of oil tanker seizure

President Hassan Rouhani warns the UK about the “consequences” of its recent seizure of an Iranian supertanker.

Muslims boycott Hajj over Saudi crown prince’s policies: Foreign Policy

Analyst says Trump's cronies driving US into war with Iran

US President Donald Trump is being driven into a war with Iran by his cronies, a former American Senate foreign policy analyst says.

Our new Saddam Hussein, an editorial by the Washington Post

Once upon a time, there was a brutal and reckless dictator of an oil-rich Arab country who, despite his well-documented excesses, was stroked and supported by the United States and other Western governments. By: Jackson Diehl, deputy Editorial Page editor at The Washington Post