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Dec 5, 2022

Why Iran is stepping up its assassination plots in the West

It’s no secret that Iran’s conventional forces are no match for its key international rivals. It even took heavy losses when fighting a conventional war against neighboring Iraq for much…

BYTeam Mighty

Dec 5, 2022

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Why the US Navy canceled this routine Black Sea patrol

Christopher Anderson, an aide to former Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, testified that the White House canceled a Navy freedom-of-navigation operation in the Black Sea after President Donald Trump complained to then-national security adviser J…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

This is how the US wants to take down Iran

Early reports suggest National Security Advisor John Bolton presented a plan that called for 120,000 U.S. troops to counter Iran, just in case the Islamic Republic ups the ante by attacking American forces or starts building nuclear weapons again.

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Is the US putting sailors at risk by sending a carrier to Iran?

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, announced on May 5, 2019, that the US would send the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its associated strike group to the waters near Iran to “send a message” and re…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Apr 29, 2020

US pressure fails to fracture Armenia, Iran relationship

Acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says he made clear to U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton that Armenia will pursue its national interests and maintain “special relations” with its neighbor Iran. Addressing the Armenian …

$US pressure fails to fracture Armenia, Iran relationship$

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Apr 29, 2020

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Apr 29, 2020

The Kremlin demands an explanation of Trump’s treaty rejection

The U.S. withdrawal from a landmark 1987 nuclear arms treaty could make the world “more dangerous” and force Moscow to take steps to restore the balance of power, senior Russian officials said as U.S. national security adviser John Bolton held tal…

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Apr 29, 2020

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Sep 12, 2019

Bolton accuses Iran of being ‘central banker’ for terrorism

U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has called Iran “the central banker of international terrorism” as he laid out a wider strategy for countering Tehran in the Middle East. John Bolton told reporters on Oct. 4, 20…

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Sep 12, 2019

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Sep 12, 2019

Iran and Europe want to sidestep sanctions, angering U.S.

The United States has sharply criticized a European Union plan to help Iran get around U.S. sanctions by establishing alternative ways to pay for Iran’s trade with European companies. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking at a New Yor…

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Sep 12, 2019

BYUS Department of Defense

Sep 12, 2019

DoD releases new biodefense strategy for man-made, natural threats

The new National Biodefense Strategy is a living document designed to counter man-made and natural biological threats, National …

BYUS Department of Defense

Sep 12, 2019

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Sep 12, 2019

Bolton refused to press Putin on anything about Ukraine

White House national security adviser John Bolton says that he has discussed Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bolton, who met with Putin in Moscow on June 27, 2018, told CBS’s Face The Nation that …

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Sep 12, 2019

BYBusiness Insider

Jun 5, 2018

Bomb-crazy national security advisor pushed out of North Korea talks

President Donald Trump’s hawkish national security adviser, John Bolton, infuriated North Korea with a strange and threatening comment about denuclearization in May 2018, and now he seems excluded from the countries’ talks. When Trump met wi…

BYBusiness Insider

Jun 5, 2018

BYRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Apr 20, 2018

This is what Russia has to address to thaw relations with the US

The new U.S. national security adviser has told Russia’s U.S. ambassador that Moscow must address U.S. concerns on election meddling, the “reckless” nerve-agent attack in Britain, and the situations in Ukraine and Syria before relations can subst…

BYRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Apr 20, 2018