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A U.S. Secret Service agent looks at the site before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show, the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National security risk exposed: Why were 10 of 12 agents left clueless at Trump’s July Butler rally?

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Iran's response to Israel's assassination of Ismail Haniyeh illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Iran’s crisis of humiliation: Planning its response to Israel

By Abraham Wagner

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, speaks in a press briefing in Tehran, Iran, on July 7, 2019. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024 proposed former nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi as the country’s new foreign minister. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Ex-nuclear negotiator tapped to be Iran’s next foreign minister even as pressure to hit Israel grows

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

An Iranian woman prays for President Ebrahim Raisi in a ceremony at Vali-e-Asr square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Helicopter crash that killed Iran’s president and others could reverberate across the Middle East

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

In this Aug. 29, 2023, file photo, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi places his hands on his heart as a gesture of respect as he leaves after the conclusion of a news conference in Tehran, Iran. President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday, May 20, 2024, after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iranian President Raisi, the ‘Butcher of Tehran,’ found dead at helicopter crash site

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Moj News Agency, rescue teams' vehicles are seen near the site of the incident of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan in northwestern Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (Azin Haghighi, Moj News Agency via AP)

‘No sign of life’: Rescuers locate crash site of helicopter carrying Iranian president

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People take part in a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group outside of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) **FILE**

Biden tells Netanyahu humanitarian situation in Gaza ‘unacceptable’

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Uzbekistan's President Press Office, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi attends the Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Uzbekistan's President Press Office via AP) ** FILE **

Iran-Russia alliance tightens with Moscow summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Robert Malley, U.S. special envoy for Iran, is shown on June 20, 2021, in Vienna, Austria. The Biden administration’s special envoy for Iran has stepped aside from his duties pending a review of his security clearance by U.S. authorities. Malley has led administration efforts to revive the faltering Iran nuclear deal and resolve issues related to detained Americans in Iran, but has not been active in his job for weeks. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter) ** FILE **

GOP demands answers as mystery over Iran envoy Rob Malley deepens

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, left, and Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi walk past the honor guard during a state visit in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Iran’s president meets Cuban counterpart in last leg of Latin American tour

By Andrea Rodríguez - Associated Press

Banner across the facade of the Capitoline Museum in Rome showing support for Iranian protestors (photo supplied to The Washington Times)

The people of Rome are standing with Iranian women for freedom

By Victoria Coates

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Iranian leader nixes any Biden meeting during U.N. gathering

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, addresses a news conference during the Arctic Encounter symposium, Friday, April 8, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. Representatives from several Arctic countries, including the United States, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Greenland and Japan, met for a two-day conference to discuss areas of international collaboration, diplomacy and policies impacting the Arctic. One Arctic nation missing was Russia, which had expressed interest after initially pulling out but was told by event organizers it was not appropriate after Russia invaded Ukraine. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) **FILE**

Manchin warns Biden against removing sanctions on Iran for supporting global terrorism

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden keeps pushing for Iran deal revival despite dire warnings

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A worker cleans a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, installed to commemorate the anniversary of his killing, in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, in Ghobeiry, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

White House warns Iran against attacks marking anniversary of Soleimani strike

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Palais Coburg, where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, Dec. 17, 2021. Iran is insisting that the United States and its allies promise to allow Tehran to export its crude as negotiations on restoring the tattered nuclear deal are to resume in Vienna. Iran's foreign minister said on Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, that Tehran wants the upcoming round of talks to focus on achieving unfettered access to oil revenue. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber, File)

Iran insists on crude exports as Vienna nuclear talks resume

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The Arak heavy water nuclear facilities, near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Jan. 15, 2011. On Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, negotiators are gathering in Vienna to resume efforts to revive Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with hopes of quick progress muted after the arrival of a hard-line new government in Tehran led to a more than five-month hiatus. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

Iranian demands raise fresh doubts as nuke talks resume

By David R. Sands and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 17, 2007, file photo, a worker repairs a part of a unit of the Tehran oil refinery in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) ** FILE **

China upholding Iranian regime with oil purchases

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE — In this photo taken on Jan. 29 2019, former Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Versailles, west of Paris, France. Banisadr, Iran's first president after the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. He was 88. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Banisadr, Iran’s first president after 1979 revolution, dies

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by Planet Labs Inc. that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies shows preparation at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's Semnan province on June 20, 2021 before what experts believe will be the launch of a satellite-carrying rocket. Iran likely conducted a failed launch of a satellite-carrying rocket in recent days and now appears to be preparing to try again, their latest effort to advance their space program amid tensions with the West over its tattered nuclear deal. (Planet Labs Inc., James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies via AP)

Iran likely had failed rocket launch, preparing for another

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press