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People wear masks to help guard against dangerous levels of air pollution in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. Poor air quality forced Iran’s government on Monday to keep all schools closed in the capital, Tehran, and other cities. Schools were closed since Saturday, and will remain closed until Wednesday, the end of the week in Iran, according to the official IRNA news agency. Tehran’s air is among the most polluted in the world. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Poor air quality keeps schools closed in Iran’s capital

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

US will `curb malign Iranian behavior’ if it doesn’t stop

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Iran post office delivers box to minister in drone test

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Iran Attack Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Lessons from Pearl Harbor when dealing with the ayatollahs in Tehran

By Sam Faddis

FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2019, file photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to members of the Revolutionary Guard's all-volunteer Basij force in a meeting in Tehran, Iran. Khamenei on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, reportedly called on judicial officials to treat those detained in recent nationwide protests with &quot;Islamic mercy&quot; after authorities acknowledged security forces shot and killed demonstrators nationwide. A portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini hangs in background. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Congress weighs first bill supporting Iranian protesters

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This photo provided by U.S. Embassy Switzerland, Edward McMullen greets Xiyue Wang in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. In a trade conducted in Zurich, Iranian officials handed over Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang, detained in Tehran since 2016, for scientist Massoud Soleimani, who had faced a federal trial in Georgia. (U.S. Embassy Switzerland via AP)

Iran ready for more prisoner swaps with US, not negotiations

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 9, 2018 file photo, Hua Qu, the wife of detained Chinese-American Xiyue Wang, poses for a photograph with a portrait of her family in Princeton, N.J. Iran's foreign minister says a detained Princeton graduate student will be exchanged for an Iranian scientist held by the U.S. Mohammed Javad Zarif made the announcement on Twitter on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. The trade involves graduate student Xiyue Wang and scientist Massoud Soleimani. Wang was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for allegedly “infiltrating” the country and sending confidential material abroad. His family and Princeton strongly denied the claims. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Iran frees Chinese-American scholar for US-held scientist

By JON GAMBRELL and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Report: Gas pipe explosion kills 11 in western Iran

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Hundreds of people march inside Tahrir Square carrying national flags and chanting religious slogans in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Anti-government protesters say multiple people have suffered stab wounds in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of their movement, after political parties and Iran-backed militia groups briefly joined them, raising fears of infiltration by authorities. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iran ‘murdered’ as many as 1,000 protesters, State Department says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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, Nov. 20, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP)

Iran president: Tehran hasn’t closed window on talks with US

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In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, people walk past buildings that were burned during recent protests, in Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran. Amnesty International says at least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces. The country has yet to release any nationwide statistics about the unrest last month. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Amnesty says at least 208 killed in Iran protests, crackdown

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Officials close schools in Iranian capital because of smog

Associated Press

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with members of the Revolutionary Guard's all-volunteer Basij force in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) ** FILE **

Iran says protesters attacked hundreds of banks, blaming US

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Female members of the the Basij paramilitary force affiliated to the Iran's Revolutionary Guard attend one of the ceremonies marking &quot;Basij Week,&quot; and also commemorating the 40th anniversary of establishment of the force, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As internet restored, online Iran protest videos show chaos

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Mourners surround the flag-draped coffin of Revolutionary Guard member Morteza Ebrahimi, seen in a poster at the bottom left, during a funeral procession that passed protest-damaged buildings in the town of Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. Ebrahimi was killed during protests over government-set fuel prices rising last week, demonstrations that quickly spiraled in violence. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran blames deadly unrest on outsiders, including US

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Illustration on the containment of PIJ by Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Palestinian Islamic Jihad provokes Israel and finds itself a lonely combatant

By Clifford D. May

In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, and released by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, people walk past buildings which burned during protests that followed the authorities' decision to raise gasoline prices, in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, Iran. An article published Tuesday in the Keyhan hard-line newspaper in Iran is suggesting that those who led violent protests will be executed by hanging as the unrest continues. (Masoume Aliakbar/ISNA via AP)

Amnesty: At least 106 dead in protests, which Iran disputes

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei talks to clerics in his Islamic thoughts class in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019. Iran's supreme leader supported the government's decision to increase gasoline prices and says that those setting fire to public property during protests against the hikes are &quot;bandits&quot; backed by the enemies of Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran will seek new fighter jets, tanks as 2020 embargo lifts

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Vehicles queue to enter a gas station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Authorities have imposed rationing and increased the prices of fuel. The decision came following months of speculations about possible rationing after the U.S. in 2018 reimposed sanctions that sent Iran's economy into free-fall following Washington withdrawal from 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Protests grip major Iran cities over gas prices; 1 killed

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

The creation of the Pentagon's Coalition Task Foce has coincided with the decilne of Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and has left Tehran searching for a new strategy to challenge U.S. power in the region. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Iranian attacks abate as Pentagon unveils Gulf task force

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times