The country has abandoned its cap on enrichment in response to President Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 landmark nuclear deal and his imposition of sanctions.
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Former Guard commander says Iran should seize a U.K. tanker
Mohsen Rezaei urges the action in response to the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar on Thursday.
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Iran breaches uranium stockpile limit set by nuclear deal
Iran has broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers
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Iran vows to ‘soon’ breach uranium stockpile limits
The move would be symbolic but not put the country significantly closer to building a nuclear weapon.
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Dana Milbank: Trump demands subservience, gets incompetence
His ‘acting’ officials are causing babies to go hungry, and they may soon bumble us into war with Iran.
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Trump threatens use of ‘overwhelming force’ against Iran if it attacks ‘anything American’
Iranian officials criticized new penalties targeting Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying that the White House had “become mentally crippled.”
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Commentary: Trump’s Iran debacle underscores absence of wise advisers
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo are advancing unhinged policies and failing to check the president’s recklessness and erratic tendencies.
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Iranians say their ‘bones breaking’ under U.S. sanctions
But alongside Trump, many blame their own government, which has careened from one economic disaster to another since its Islamic Revolution 40 years ago.
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Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran, warns that U.S. ‘restraint’ is limited
The president says has legal authority to order military action without congressional approval, something some lawmakers have insisted he obtain.
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‘We were cocked, loaded’: Trump’s account of Iran attack plan facing scrutiny
There is confusion about how the United States and Iran are communicating during the crisis at a time when the adversaries have very few diplomatic contacts.