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This frame grab from video aired by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, shows two vessels in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s state TV reported that speedboats belonging to the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have intercepted a U.S. vessel in the Persian Gulf. A U.S. Navy spokesman said he was not aware of any such encounter at sea over the past days. (IRIB via AP)

Iran Revolutionary Guard speedboats intercept U.S. Navy vessel, state TV reports

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In this image taken from video provided by UN Web TV, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi remotely addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded message, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, at U.N. headquarters. (UN Web TV via AP)

Emboldened Iran mocks U.S. as Biden’s hopes for nuclear deal fade

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Ebrahim Raisi, right, takes his oath as president, as Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi listens in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran swears in new hard-line president amid regional tension

By Amir Vahdat - Associated Press

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi, right, speaks after receiving official seal of approval of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, in an endorsement ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. A portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini hangs at top left. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s incoming president slams ‘tyrannical’ U.S. sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Friday, June 18, 2021, photo, Ebrahim Raisi, a candidate in Iran's presidential elections waves to the media after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran. The Biden administration is lashing out at Iran for accusing it of delaying a proposed prisoner swap to force a quick resumption of paused indirect nuclear talks. The State Department on Saturday, July 17, 2021 slammed as “outrageous” comments made by Iran's deputy foreign minister who blamed the U.S. and Britain for the delay. A sixth round of nuclear talks ended last month without agreement ahead of Iran's presidential election won by Ebrahim Raisi. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) **FILE**

Popular protests, violent crackdown put Biden’s Iran policy to the test

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a farewell meeting with outgoing President Hassan Rouhani's administration in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader criticizes U.S. as nuclear talks stalled

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Iran Crimes and War Acts Continue Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran’s crimes and acts of war will continue until Biden responds forcefully

By Clifford D. May

A person holds up an Iranian passport as people, most of them residents of Iran stand in line for a vaccine at a mobile vaccination station in the center of Yerevan , Armenia, Friday, July 9, 2021. Armenia’s offer of free coronavirus vaccines to any foreign visitor has drawn many people from neighboring Iran and other countries to the ex-Soviet Caucasus nation. The Iranians initially visited the Armenian border city of Meghri to get the shots, but the Armenian authorities have decided earlier this week that all foreign nationals should get the shots in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. (Lusi Sargsyan/PHOTOLURE via AP)

Desperate for vaccines amid surge, Iranians flock to Armenia

By Avet Demourian and Nvard Hovhannisyan - Associated Press

People attend a protest rally in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, July 10, 2021 as part of the 'Free Iran World Summit 2021'. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Rhetoric from ‘Free Iran’ summit strikes nerve, sparks regime’s ire

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

U.S. Air Force's F-16 fighter takes off during an annual joint air exercise "Max Thunder" between South Korea and the U.S. at a U.S. air base in Gunsan, South Korea, Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Go Bum-jun/Newsis via AP) ** FILE **

‘Serious consequences’: U.S. war on Iran-backed militias escalates despite diplomacy with Tehran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this June 21, 2021, photo, Iran's new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi waves at the conclusion of his news conference in Tehran, Iran. Biden administration officials are insisting that the election of a hard-liner as Iran’s president won’t affect prospects for reviving the faltering 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran. But there are already signs that their goal of locking in a deal just got harder. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) ** FILE **

U.S. launches series of airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This Monday, June 21, 2021 photo shows Iran's new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi during a news conference in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iranian media: ‘Sabotage attack’ on nuclear building foiled

By Nasser Karimi - 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

Iran's new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s president-elect says he won’t meet with Biden

By Isabel Debre and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Oct. 26, 2010, file photo, a worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr. Iran’s sole nuclear power plant has undergone a temporary emergency shutdown, state TV reported on Sunday, June 20, 2021. An official from the state electric energy company, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last &quot;for three to four days.” (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

Iranian nuclear power plant undergoes unexplained emergency shutdown

Associated Press

In this file photo from April 1, 2015, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, right, speaks with then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and U.S. Robert Malley, left, Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf States, National Security Council during a break outside the hotel at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel as the Iran nuclear talks continue, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Malley currently serves as the Biden administration's special envoy to Iran and is working to salvage the Obama-era Iran deal that President Trump canceled. (AP Photo/Keystone,Laurent Gillieron) ** FILE **

Iran’s misdeeds, terror efforts dismissed in Biden push for new nuclear deal

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on Iran and nuclear weapons policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran’s nuclear secrets have been exposed

By Clifford D. May

Fatemeh Rekabi, an accountant, speaks with The Associated Press about the upcoming presidential election, as she stands next to her friend Omid Alimardani, at the Grand Bazaar, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 10, 2021. Consumed by fear of future economic decline, Rekabi, believes there’s no candidate worth voting for. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Voices of Iranians ahead of the presidential election

By Mohammad Nasiri - Associated Press

In this picture made available by Young Journalists Club, YJC, presidential candidate for the June 18 elections Abdolnasser Hemmati speaks with state-run TV journalists upon arrival for the second debate of the candidates, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Iran's seven presidential candidates on Tuesday put all the problems of the Islamic Republic squarely on the shoulders of the one man who wasn't there to defend himself: Outgoing President Hassan Rouhani. (Ayoub Ghaderi/ Young Journalists Club, YJC via AP)

Iranian presidential candidate says he’s willing to potentially meet Biden

By Mehdi Fattahi - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Iranian army shows navy's support ship Kharg. The Kharg, the largest warship in the Iranian navy, caught fire and later sank Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported. (Iranian army via AP)

Mysterious fire sinks Iran’s largest warship

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times