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Iranian lawmakers attend an open session of the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran to get billions in deal that sets up release of five detained Americans

By Jon Gambrell and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, meets with his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Amirabdollahian is in Islamabad for two-day visit to discuss with Pakistani top officials a range of issues, including the completion of the gas pipeline project, improving trade and economic ties between the two sides and ensuring security at a long border which the two nations share in the South Asian region. (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Iran’s top diplomat urges Pakistan to complete its part of a long-delayed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo released Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, by Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Guard's troops attend a drill on Abu Musa Island, in the Persian Gulf. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched a surprise military drill Wednesday on disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, just as the U.S. military increase its presence in the region over recent ship seizures by Tehran. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard runs drill on disputed islands as US military presence in region grows

By Nasser. Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Iraqi men and their sons swim in the Tigris river to beat the heat in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi officials defending barter deal with Iran, saying it doesn’t violate U.S. sanctions on Tehran

By Kareem Chehayeb and Abdulrahman Zeyad - Associated Press

Illustration on Iran's shadow war against Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran’s shadow war: Israelis are defending themselves against Tehran’s foreign legions

By Clifford D. May

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, listens to the national anthem as the army commander Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, right, and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, salute during the Army Day parade in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. President Raisi reiterated threats against Israel while though he stayed away from criticizing Saudi Arabia as Tehran seeks a détente with the kingdom. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

U.S. accused of ignoring crackdown on Iranian exiles to appease Tehran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this March 31, 2020, file photo, Iran's national flag waves as Milad telecommunications tower and buildings are seen in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

The West’s moment of truth in Iran

By Tom Ridge

International Atomic Energy Organization, IAEA, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi listens to a question during a joint press conference with the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami in Tehran, Saturday, March 4, 2023. The International Atomic Energy Agency will “never politicize” its work in Iran, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday, insisting after Israel’s prime minister accused it of capitulating to Iranian pressure that his agency has been “very fair but firm." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

U.N. nuclear chief, facing Israeli criticism on Iran, says his agency ‘very fair but firm’

By Stephanie Liechtenstein - Associated Press

Iranian oil tanker Fortune is anchored at the dock of the El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, May 25, 2020. Lawmakers are pressuring President Biden to combat Iran's threats against American companies that take Iranian oil from a U.S.-seized tanker (not pictured) off the coast of Texas. (AP Photo/Ernesto Vargas, File)

Iran skirting U.S. sanctions by using network of companies, dissidents say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Belgian Government, Belgium's Olivier Vandecasteele looks out of the window of a Belgian military plane in Oman, that is taking him back to Belgium, Friday, May 26, 2023. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a statement Friday that the aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele, had been freed after being detained in Iran for 15 months. (Belgium Government via AP)

Belgium, Iran conduct prisoner swap in Oman, freeing aid worker and diplomat convicted in bomb plot

By Jon Gambrell and Raf Casert - Associated Press

In this Feb. 11, 2016, file photo, Iranian drone Shahed-129 is displayed at a rally in Tehran, Iran. A Texas man with dual U.S. and Iranian citizenship smuggled aerial drone technology to Iran, including by concealing aircraft parts in his checked luggage during multiple trips he made there every year, federal prosecutors said. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ** FILE **

Russia aims to obtain more attack drones from Iran after depleting stockpile, White House says

By Aamer Madhani, Colleen Long and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Women talk as they walk around Tajrish commercial district without wearing their mandatory Islamic headscarf in northern Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 29, 2023. More women are choosing not to wear the mandatory headscarf, or the hijab, publicly in Iran. Such open defiance of the law follows months of protests over the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the country's morality police, for wearing her hijab too loosely.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As more women forgo the hijab, Iran’s government pushes back

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo released by the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi, left, listens to his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad during a welcoming ceremony in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iranian president meets Palestinian officials in Syria

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi steps off the plane as he arrives to the airport in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. It is the first visit by an Iranian head of state to war-torn Syria since the beginning of the country's uprising-turned-civil-war in 2011, in which Tehran helped tip the balance of power to the government. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

U.S. Navy: Iran seizes oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during during Army Day parade in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. President Raisi reiterated threats against Israel while though he stayed away from criticizing Saudi Arabia as Tehran seeks a détente with the kingdom. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) ** FILE **

U.S. Navy says Iran seized Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

An armed man stands in a window of the parliament building during an attack by militants in Tehran, Iran on June 7, 2017. An Iranian court issued a $312.9 million judgment against the United States over a 2017 Islamic State-claimed attack on Tehran, authorities said Wednesday, April 26, 2023, the latest judicial action between the nations amid their decadeslong enmity. (Omid Vahabzadeh/Fars News Agency via AP, File)

Iran court issues $312.9M judgment against U.S. amid tensions

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

The shadow of Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, are cast on a large representation of the Yemeni flag as they attend a demonstration against an arms embargo imposed by the U.N. Security Council on Houthi leaders, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, April 16, 2015. Rare protests have erupted against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Thursday, March 24, 2023, following the funeral of a popular critic found dead after he was detained by the group. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) **FILE**

Yemen crisis resists resolution despite Iran-Saudi thaw

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. McConnell was critical of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. The conservative commentator is working to reverse the narrative of the attack that had played out for the world to see into one more favorable to Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell urges lawmakers to keep Iraq war powers in wake of strikes by Iranian-backed militias

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pentagon has ‘multiple options’ ready if Iran builds nuclear bomb, top U.S. general says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, at right, shakes hands with Saudi National Security Adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban, at left, as Wang Yi, China's most senior diplomat, looks on, at center, for a photo during a closed meeting held in Beijing, Saturday, March 11, 2023. Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed Friday to reestablish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after seven years of tensions. The major diplomatic breakthrough negotiated with China lowers the chance of armed conflict between the Mideast rivals, both directly and in proxy conflicts around the region. (Luo Xiaoguang/Xinhua via AP)

Saudi deal with Iran worries Israel, shakes up Middle East

By Isabel Debre and Samy Magdy - Associated Press