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Iran’s Vice President Masoud Soltanifar who is also chief of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization gestures as he speaks in an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Iran's vice president has told The Associated Press his country is preparing for a 'tsunami of tourists' as Iran and world powers are set to begin implementing a landmark nuclear deal that will lift biting sanctions in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

TRAVEL: Iran prepares for ‘tsunami’ of tourists

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI - Associated Press

President Obama and other Western leaders have been duped into believing President Hassan Rouhani is moderate, MEK member Farzad Madadzadeh said. (Associated Press)

Iran dissidents say U.S. policies are appeasing Islamist rulers

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for The Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran, in this April 11, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran: Jason Rezaian, Washington Post reporter, convicted

Associated Press

Members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq chant slogans and hold banners during a tour organized by the Iraqi government for foreign diplomats in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2012. Sen. John McCain says successive U.S. administrations have broken their promise to protect the group, which is increasingly under threat of Iranian government-backed militias. (Associated Press)

Obama faces bipartisan push to assist Iranian dissidents trapped in Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights said warplanes believed to be Russian have targeted the northern town of Al-Bab, Syria. Some see the fight among Middle East factions as a proxy war between Russia and the U.S. (Associated Press)

Iran an unlikely beneficiary of Russia’s military campaign in Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

New evidence suggests Iran and Hezbollah colluded to hide a suspect in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 U.S. servicemen and wounded hundreds. (Associated Press)

Bill Clinton White House suppressed evidence of Iran’s terrorism

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

Rep. Edward R. Royce, California Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

House votes to delay Iran sanctions relief until terror victims get paid

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, welcomes U.N. nuclear chief Yukiya Amano for their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. Rouhani told Amano on Sunday that his agency should be fair in its implementation of a nuclear deal reached between Iran and the world powers, according to a report on Rouhani's website. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

White House hails reports that Iran turned over samples in nuclear inspection

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat, speaks during a new conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 5, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Senate Democrats to GOP: Too risky to bring U.S. prisoners into the Iran debate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

While CIA Director John O. Brennan pushed aside questions about the legitimacy of news reports alleging that deep nuclear and missile cooperation already exists between Iran and North Korea, he stressed that CIA officials are "not going to assume that's not going to happen." (Associated Press)

John Brennan: U.S. watching for nuclear cooperation between Iran, North Korea

By Rowan Scarborough and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iran deal: A former CIA Director diagnoses the Iran nuclear deal

By Michael Hayden

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford, Jr., testifies during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing to become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 9, 2015. Dunford said Russia poses the greatest national security threat to the United States and that it would be "reasonable" to supply lethal arms to Ukrainians fighting against rebels backed by Moscow. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Iran deal: Iran’s toll on America: 500 soldiers killed in Iraq

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Iran deal: A deal that erases the president’s red lines

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, during Senate confirmation hearings in July, appears to be the first military official to use the 500 fatality figure, attributing it to Iranian "activities." (Associated Press)

Iran responsible for deaths of 500 U.S. service members in Iraq, military officials say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington on Aug. 6, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama: Opponents of Iran deal aren’t ‘warmongers’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John F. Kerry this spring asked the department's inspector general to review the security standards that let his predecessor conduct official business on a private email account. The IG is allowed to interview any department employee. (Associated Press)

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Iran Deal is a national security tragedy

By Armstrong Williams

Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks June 8, 2015, during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center in Vienna. World powers are prepared to accept a nuclear agreement with Iran that doesn’t immediately answer questions about past atomic weapons work, U.S. and Western officials said, even though Washington had previously declared such concerns must be resolved in any final deal. (Associated Press) **FILE**

IAEA chief: Agency running out of money to monitor Iran nuclear deal

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

President Obama said he wanted inspections "anywhere, anytime" of Iran's nuclear facilities to ensure Tehran is adhering to terms of the deal. But the actual agreement? Iran gets 24 days' notice of inspections of suspicious sites. A secret side deal allows Tehran's own inspectors to check a military site where work on nuclear weapons was thought to have been carried out. (Associated Press)

Iran nuclear deal erases Obama’s red lines

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard watch a missile launch in July 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Iran planning ballistic missile war games

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015 photo from files showing Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, during a press conference at the Lebanese foreign ministry in Beirut, Lebanon. An unusual secret agreement with a U.N. agency will allow Iran to use its own experts to inspect a site allegedly used to develop nuclear arms, according to a document seen by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Iranian inspectors will control review of secret nuclear site

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times