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Biden following Obama's Iran strategy illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Biden won’t acknowledge the failure of Obama’s Iran strategy

By Saeed Ghasseminejad

In this photo provided by the Royal Navy a view of HMS Diamond from the ships bridge, firing Sea Viper missiles at an incoming Houthi drone, on the Red Sea, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. The United Kingdom's Defense Ministry acknowledged on Sunday, one of its warships shot down a drone launched by the Houthi rebels from Yemen. The HMS Diamond shot down the drone with its Sea Viper missile system in the Red Sea, causing no damage or injuries, it said. (LPhot Chris Sellars/Royal Navy via AP)

Drone that killed U.S. troops in Jordan was mistaken for U.S. drone, preliminary report suggests

By Lolita C. Baldor, Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Houthi supporters attend a protest against the United States-led airstrikes on Friday, Jan 12, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis. The military targets included air defense and radar sites, drone and missile storage and launching locations. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

The Middle East war Biden tried to avoid may be thrust upon him

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, on Oct. 12, 2023. Three American troops were killed and "many" were wounded Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, in a drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden said. He blamed Iran-backed militia groups for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes against American forces across the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. U.S. officials identified Tower 22 as the site of the attack. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Biden pressed to act after deadly strike on U.S. troops; Iran-backed militants trigger turning point

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, claims to show a satellite carrier is launched at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's rural Semnan province. Iran said Sunday it successfully launched three satellites into space, the latest for a program that the West says improves Tehran's ballistic missiles. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran launches 3 satellites into space that are part of a Western-criticized program as tensions rise

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Houthi supporters attend a protest against the United States-led airstrikes on Friday, Jan 12, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis. The military targets included air defense and radar sites, drone and missile storage and launching locations. (AP Photo)

No way out? Iran bogs down another U.S. president in Middle East morass

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Emergency services clear the rubble of the house of Peshraw Dizayi that was hit in Iranian missile strikes in Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Dizayi, a prominent local businessman, was killed in one of the Irbil strikes along with members of his family. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann/Metrography)

Pakistan recalls ambassador to Iran over airstrike that killed 2 people

By Munir Ahmed and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

People take care of injured after an explosion in Kerman, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Explosions at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 73 people and wounded over 170 others, state-run media in Iran reported Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mahdi Karbakhsh Ravari)

Iran says at least 103 people killed in twin blasts at ceremony honoring slain general

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Iran's national flag waves in Tehran, Iran, March 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Gunmen kill 11 people, wound 8 others in an attack on a police station in Iran, state TV says

Associated Press

In this photo released by Uzbekistan's President Press Office, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi attends the Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Uzbekistan's President Press Office via AP) ** FILE **

Iran-Russia alliance tightens with Moscow summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Manuel Hernandez Lafuente, the CMA CGM Symi is seen at port in Valencia, Spain, Oct. 22, 2023. A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an American defense official said Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. (Manuel Hernandez Lafuente via AP)

An Israeli-owned ship was targeted in suspected Iranian attack in Indian Ocean, U.S. official says

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Smoke rises from an Israeli army position which was attacked by Hezbollah fighters near Alma al-Shaab a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Hamas Palestinian militants in southern Lebanon fired 20 rockets into the northern Israeli towns of Schlomi and Nahariyya, the group said in a statement. They said it was "in response to the (Israeli) occupation's crimes against our people in Gaza". (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah attacks Israel in the north as fighting in Gaza Strip continues in the south

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian is seen before a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Kishida's office in Tokyo on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. ships ‘vulnerable’ to attack in eastern Mediterranean, contends Iran’s foreign minister

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in Natanz uranium enrichment facility near Natanz, Iran. A new underground facility at the Natanz enrichment site may put centrifuges beyond the range of a massive so-called “bunker buster” bomb earlier developed by the U.S. military, according to experts and satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press in May 2023. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Iran’s uranium stockpile has increased to 22 times larger than levels set by 2015 accord

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on the war on the Jews by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran is globalizing second war against the Jews

By Clifford D. May

In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran's Metro while not wearing a head scarf has died, Iranian state media reported Saturday, Oct. 28.(AP Photo/Iranian state television, File)

Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Nail in the coffin? Hamas attack could finally doom Biden’s diplomatic dance with Iran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on the Hamas/Israel conflict by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Saving Gazan lives would require only two words: ‘We surrender’

By Clifford D. May

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew speaks during the discussion panel at the World Bank/IMF annual meeting at IMF headquarters in Washington, Oct. 7, 2016. The White House says President Joe Biden has nominated Lew to serve as his next ambassador to Israel.( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Biden nominee for ambassador to Israel criticized for being an ‘Iran sympathizer’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, listens to army commander Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi during a graduation ceremony for a group of armed forces cadets in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel raises questions about the influence of its sponsor, Iran

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press