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President Donald Trump delivers a statement on the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Sins of Bush, Obama leave Trump to clean up Iranian mess

By L. Todd Wood

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Iran slams ‘hypocrisy’ of U.S.-Saudi nuclear plans

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Children wave Iranian flags during a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi, Freedom, Square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of people poured out onto the streets of Tehran and other cities and towns across Iran, marking the date 40 years ago that is considered victory day in the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

U.S. YouTube video pits Iranian citizens against regime

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A group of suspected al Qaeda militants accused in the killing of an army general in a suicide bombing stand trial at a state security court in Sanaa, Yemen, in this April 22, 2014 file photo. (Associated Press)

Iran-al Qaeda alliance may provide legal rationale for U.S. military strikes

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Suicide bomber targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard kills 27

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this picture released on Jan. 12, 2019, by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei takes notes during a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, says talks with U.S. can only ‘harm’

By Amir Vahdat - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1978 file photo, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. Forty years ago, Iran's ruling shah left his nation for the last time and an Islamic Revolution overthrew the vestiges of his caretaker government. The effects of the 1979 revolution, including the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and ensuing hostage crisis, reverberate through decades of tense relations between Iran and America. (AP Photo, File)

Key moments in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Feb. 11, 2016, file photograph, an Iranian woman holds the national flag during a rally commemorating the 37th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iranians mark anniversary of victory day in 1979 revolution

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 1979 file photo, a follower of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini holds a rifle containing a flower outside of Khomeini's headquarters in Tehran, Iran. Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which overthrew the caretaker government left behind by the cancer-stricken Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had left the country only weeks earlier. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)

AP WAS THERE: Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution sweeps nation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives in the House chamber before giving his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

EDITORIAL: The president’s eye on Iran

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Reza Moini, the head of RSF's Iran-Afghanistan desk, Taghi Rahmani, Iraj Mesdaghi, Monireh Baradarn, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and Christophe Deloire, director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), from left to right, pose during a news conference on Iran at the Reporters without Borders (RSF) offices in Paris, France, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. The media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders says that 860 journalists were detained by Iran over 30 years period, starting with the inception in 1979 of the Islamic Republic. The organization revealed on Thursday its macabre headcount of named journalists and citizen-journalists detained around Tehran, the capital, some of them executed, in what it said was a first. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Watchdog: Revolutionary Iran jails 1.7 million in 30 years

Associated Press

In this Jan. 7, 2019, photo, an Iranian looks at an exhibition at a former prison run by the pre-revolution intelligence service, Savak, now a museum, where wax mannequins of interrogators and a prisoner are displayed, in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Torture still scars Iranians 40 years after revolution

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Newly elected Iraq President Barham Salih, center, leaves the parliament building in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Iraq's parliament elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the country's new president on Tuesday, a step toward forming a new government nearly five months after national elections. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ** FILE **

Iraq says U.S. military’s plan to extend presence to deter Iran needs to be renegotiated

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

This Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, photo, shows the shrine of Iran's revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside of Tehran, Iran. The memory of Khomeini, who died in 1989 at the age of 86, literally looms large over Tehran today. His golden-domed mausoleum in southern Tehran is one of the first things people see driving into the city from the airport named for him. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Ayatollah Khomeini’s family mostly absent from Iran politics

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photograph, a worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern Iranian city of Bushehr. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File) **FILE**

Britain, France, Germany launch new trade system with Iran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 1979 file photo, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's exiled religious leader, emerges from a plane after his arrival at Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran. Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, marks the 40th anniversary of Khomeini's descent from the chartered Air France Boeing 747, a moment that changed the country’s history for decades to come. (AP Photo/FY, File)

Iran begins marking 40th anniversary of Islamic Revolution

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1978 file photo, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. Forty years ago, Iran's ruling shah left his nation for the last time and an Islamic Revolution overthrew the vestiges of his caretaker government. The effects of the 1979 revolution, including the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and ensuing hostage crisis, reverberate through decades of tense relations between Iran and America. (AP Photo, File)

Key moments in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 1979 file photo, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, center, is greeted by supporters in Tehran, Iran. Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of Iran’s exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini return to Tehran, a moment that changed the country’s history for decades to come. That revolution would spark the U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis, stoking the animosity that exists between Tehran and Washington to this day. (AP Photo, File)

AP WAS THERE: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This frame grab from an Aug. 8, 2018 video provided by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, shows an aerial view of a massive hole caused by drought and excessive water pumping in Kabudarahang, in Hamadan province, in western Iran. Some sinkholes formed in western Iran are as deep as 60 meters (196 feet). (ISNA via AP)

In Iran, parched lands hollowed by water pumping now sinking

By MEHDI FATTAHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 1979 file photo, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah walk on the tarmac at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, to board a plane to leave the country. Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the shah abandoning his Peacock Throne and leaving his nation for the last time in his life, setting the stage for the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution only a month later. (AP Photo, File)

AP WAS THERE: Shah leaves Iran as 1979 revolution looms

By The Associated Press - Associated Press