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Needed: Regime change in Iran

By Cal Thomas

In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, Iran's Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

DIA report details Iranian weaponry sent to Yemen rebels

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A Hezbollah supporter holds up a picture that shows portraits of slain Iran's Quds force General Qassem Soleimani, top, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, during a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of Soleimani assassination, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

U.S. military strikes Iran-backed Iraqi militias after attack that wounded American troops

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Members of an Iraqi Shiite militant group carry the coffin of an fighter with the Kataib Hezbollah militia, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Babil Province, during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Biden urged to step up attacks; U.S. looks to ‘degrade capabilities’ after militias injure 3 troops

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A pair of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle flies over northern Iraq, after conducting airstrikes in Syria on Sept. 23, 2014. (Associated Press)

U.S. fighter jets hit Iran-backed militias in Syria again

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on Iran's shadow war against Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran’s shadow war: Israelis are defending themselves against Tehran’s foreign legions

By Clifford D. May

The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021. The United States has announced sanctions against a group of Iranian and Turkish people and firms accused of plotting to assassinate former U.S. government officials, dual U.S. and Iranian nationals, and dissidents. Several alleged assassination plots have been uncovered in recent years. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

U.S. sanctions Iranians over alleged assassination plots of former American officials, dissidents

By Fatima Hussein and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. The Biden administration on Thursday, April 27, sanctioned Russia's Federal Security Service and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence organization for wrongfully detaining Americans. They noted that Thursday's actions were in the works well before the arrest of Gershkovich in Russia, whose imprisonment was swiftly deemed unjust by the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) **FILE**

U.S. sanctions Russia, Iran entities for detaining Americans

By Zeke Miller - Associated Press

In this image from a video made available by the U.S. Navy, a boat of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) operates in close proximity to patrol coastal ship USS Sirocco (PC 6) and expeditionary fast transport USNS Choctaw County (T-EPF 2) in the Strait of Hormuz, Monday, June 20, 2022. A U.S. Navy warship fired a warning flare to wave off an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat coming straight at it during a tense encounter in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, officials said Tuesday. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Navy uses ‘non-lethal lasers’ to ward off Iranian ship in dangerous Strait of Hormuz encounter

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh looks at debris from what the division describes as the U.S. drone which was shot down on Thursday, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 21, 2019. (Meghdad Madadi/Tasnim News Agency/via AP) ** FILE **

Iran says it has developed a hypersonic missile

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This photo released by the U.S. Navy shows the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ship Shahid Bazair, left, towing a U.S. Navy Saildrone Explorer in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. The U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet said Tuesday that Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized and later let go of a U.S. sea drone in the Persian Gulf. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the incident, though it comes amid heightened tensions over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Iran tries, fails to seize U.S. vessel in Persian Gulf in latest confrontation between two nations

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

National Security Adviser John Bolton attends a meeting with President Donald Trump as he meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Aug. 26, 2019. The Justice Department says an Iranian operative has been charged in a plot to murder former Trump administration national security John Bolton. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Iran dismisses U.S. charges of plot to murder John Bolton as ‘baseless’

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this July 8, 2019, file photo, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks at the Christians United for Israel's annual summit, in Washington. The Justice Department says an Iranian operative has been charged in a plot to murder Bolton. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

DOJ charges Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps member in plot to kill John Bolton

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this image from a video made available by the U.S. Navy, a boat of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) operates in close proximity to patrol coastal ship USS Sirocco (PC 6) and expeditionary fast transport USNS Choctaw County (T-EPF 2) in the Strait of Hormuz, Monday, June 20, 2022. A U.S. Navy warship fired a warning flare to wave off an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat coming straight at it during a tense encounter in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, officials said Tuesday. (U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. warship fires warning flare in latest standoff with Iranian navy

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with the country's top officials in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. On May 25, President Biden's special envoy for Iran told the Senate that the prospects for returning to the Obama-era deal meant to curb Iran’s nuclear program are "tenuous at best." (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) **FILE**

Biden’s struggling Iran policy faces heat from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A Revolutionary Guard member walks past Qiam missile displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the Guard a day prior to second anniversary of Iran's missile strike on U.S. bases in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Iran put three ballistic missiles on display on Friday, as talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers flounder. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Over 500 Iranian American professionals urge Biden to keep Revolutionary Guard on terror list

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Enrique Mora, a leading European Union diplomat, second right, attends a meeting with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, third left, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 27, 2022. Mora held talks in Tehran amid hopes that an agreement to restore Iran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers could be completed. Others are unidetified. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Biden risks emboldening terrorism by removing Iran’s Paramilitary from terror list

By Tom Ridge

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Biden is in Poland for the final leg of his four-day trip to Europe as he tries to maintain unity among allies and support Ukraine's defence. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Biden faces growing pressure over nuclear talks, rumored plan to pull Iran’s IRGC from terror list

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A cleric walks past Zolfaghar, top, and Dezful missiles displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a day prior to the second anniversary of Iran's missile strike on U.S. bases in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Iran put three ballistic missiles on display on Friday, as talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers flounder. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Dissident group to Biden: Trump was right to list Iran’s IRGC as terrorist organization

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Posters of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in Jan. 3, 2020, are seen in front of ballistic missiles exhibited on display in Tehran by Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Jan. 7,2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) **FILE**

Iran’s Quds Force training proxy naval forces, opposition group says

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times