U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) grilled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently about his demands to Iran for restructuring the 2015 nuclear treaty scuttled by President Trump. Paul used the forum to explain the complexities of the Middle East and how the United States ignores the transgressions of other nations...
Sen. Rand Paul Presses Pompeo About Saudi Aggression
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) grilled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently about his demands to Iran for restructuring the 2015 nuclear treaty scuttled by President Trump. Paul used the forum to explain the complexities of the Middle East and how the United States ignores the transgressions of other nations...
Trump Puts America on Path to War by Ending Iran Deal: Sanders
President Trump’s decision last week that he will pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement was the latest in a series of reckless decisions that move our country closer to conflict. By reimposing nuclear sanctions on Iran and withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise known...
Trump Backs Out of Iran Nuclear Deal. What's Next?
Thanks to Donald Trump, the hard-won deal that set up a process to end Iran’s nuclear weapons programme is on its deathbed. After weeks of entreaties and visits from his counterparts in the other states that signed the accord, Trump has announced that the US will be withdrawing from it...
Tillerson's Firing and Pompeo's Rise Make Mideast War More Likely
After U.S. president Donald Trump fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, many analysts have focused on how this high-level ouster took place: unceremoniously, on Twitter, not in a face-to-face meeting. As a former Middle East analyst at the State Department, though, I think the real drama of replacing America’s...
Nunes, Costa Respond to Trump's Iran Nuclear Deal Move
President Donald Trump’s move to decertify Iran's nuclear deal compliance is drawing responses from Fresno’s congressional delegation. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) issued a statement endorsing the president’s call for greater enforcement of the agreement, saying “It’s crucial that the Trump administration’s new, tougher Iran policy will be well-resourced and aggressively...
Nunes, Costa Respond to Trump's Iran Nuclear Deal Move
President Donald Trump’s move to decertify Iran's nuclear deal compliance is drawing responses from Fresno’s congressional delegation. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) issued a statement endorsing the president’s call for greater enforcement of the agreement, saying “It’s crucial that the Trump administration’s new, tougher Iran policy will be well-resourced and aggressively...