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President Donald Trump salutes as he steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, July 26, 2018, in Washington. Trump is returning from a trip to Iowa and Illinois. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate passes War Powers resolution limiting Trump’s military authority in Iran

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Iran Executions Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Time for the nightmare of Iran’s brutal autocracy to end

By Sam Faddis

This Feb. 4, 2020 satellite image from Maxar Technologies, shows activity at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province. An Iranian rocket failed to put a satellite into orbit on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, state television reported, the latest setback for a program the U.S. claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile program. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Iran again fails to put satellite into orbit amid US worries

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's Semnan province, some 230 kilometers (145 miles) southeast of Tehran, Iran. The rocket failed to put the satellite into orbit on Sunday, state television reported, the latest setback for a program the U.S. claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile program. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Zafar 1, Iran satellite, launch fails

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, rescue workers search the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of Tehran, Iran. The downing of a Ukrainian jetliner near Tehran highlights the limits of the civilian arm of Iran's government against the absolute power of the Shiite theocracy and the paramilitary forces beneath it. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Ukraine: Recordings show Iran knew jetliner hit by a missile

By YURAS KARMANAU and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, file photo, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a press conference after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia. Borell is traveling to Iran to meet with the country's leaders, the Iranian official news agency said on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020 amid high regional tensions. The visit is seen as the latest move by the EU to save the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

New EU foreign policy chief to make his first visit to Iran

By Associated Press - Associated Press

This Jan. 26, 2020, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies shows preparations at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province. Iranian officials and satellite images suggest the Islamic Republic is preparing to a launch a satellite into space after three major failures last year, the latest for a program which the U.S. claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile program. (Planet Labs Inc, Middlebury Institute of International Studies via AP)

Iran, photos suggest a US-criticized satellite launch looms

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

An Iranian passenger plane sits on a road outside Mahshahr airport after skidding off the runway, in southwestern city of Mahshahr, Iran, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. An Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers skidded off the runway and into a street next to the airport in the southern city of Mahshahr on Monday, after apparently losing its landing gear in a hard landing. (Mohammad Zarei/ISNA via AP)

Aging Iran airliner crash-lands on highway, injuring only 2

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

Downing of jet in Iran reveals Islamic Republic’s wider woes

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Iranian FM: Tehran still willing to negotiate with US

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, photo, crewmen of Bradley fighting vehicles stand guard at a U.S. military base in Northeastern Syria. Iran has had its fingers in Iraq's politics for years, but the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Iraqi militia commander outside Baghdad has added new impetus to the effort, stoking anti-Americanism that Tehran now hopes it can exploit to help realize the goal of getting U.S. troops out of the country. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) **FILE**

Iran uses violence, politics to try to push US out of Iraq

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

People gather for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Ukraine plane crash, at the gate of Amri Kabir University that some of the victims of the crash were former students of, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. Iran on Saturday, Jan. 11, acknowledged that its armed forces &quot;unintentionally&quot; shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran acknowledges Russian-made missiles targeted Ukraine jet

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Protesters demonstrate in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, against the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Questions abound for Iranian military in wake of Soleimani killing

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A U.S. Marine Corps carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, Thursday, April 11, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Slutman, of Newark, Del., was among three American service members killed by a roadside bomb on Monday, April 8, near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Iran expands Taliban support, targets U.S. troops in Afghanistan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photograph taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, protesters hold flowers as tear gas fired by police rises at a demonstration in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, to remember victims of a Ukrainian airplane shot down by an Iranian missile. On Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, online videos purported to show that Iranian security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner. (AP Photo)

Iran warns Europe as diplomat says officials ‘lied’ on crash

By Nasser Karmi, Jon Gambrell and Emily Schmall - Associated Press

In this photo released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Iran's president is warning that European soldiers deployed in the Mideast &quot;may be in danger&quot; after Britain, France and Germany challenged Tehran over breaking limits of its 2015 nuclear deal. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP)

Iran president slams removal of candidates from elections

By NASSER KARIMI and MOHAMMAD NASIRI - Associated Press

In this photograph taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, Iranian police officers take position while protesters gather in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, to remember victims of a Ukrainian airplane shot down by an Iranian missile. On Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, online videos purported to show that Iranian security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner. (AP Photo)

Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump back Iran protesters against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 photo, made available by the Oman News Agency, Oman's new Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, right, receives Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, after his arrival to attend an official mourning ceremony for the late Sultan Qaboos, in Muscat, Oman. A flurry of diplomatic visits and meetings crisscrossing the Persian Gulf are driving urgent efforts to defuse the possibility of all-out war after the U.S. killed Iran's top military commander. Global leaders and top diplomats are repeating in recent days the mantra of “de-escalation” and “dialogue,” yet none have publicly laid out a path to achieving either. (Oman News Agency via AP)

High-gear diplomacy aims to avert U.S., Iran conflict

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One after attending a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, from Toledo Express Airport, in Swanton, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump returns to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., after attending a campaign rally, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin)

Donald Trump warns Iran: ‘Do not kill your protesters’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Flowers and candles are placed in front of portraits of the flight crew members of the Ukrainian 737-800 plane that crashed on the outskirts of Tehran, at a memorial inside Borispil international airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says that Iran must take further steps following its admission that one of its missiles shot down Ukrainian civilian airliner. He also expressed hope for the continuation of the crash investigation without delay. A team of Ukrainian investigators is in Iran. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Iran condemned around the world after Tehran admits downing of passenger plane

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times