Iran

President Trump asked Iranian leaders on Thursday to spare the life of Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old champion wrestler from Iran who was sentenced to be executed for his participation in the 2018 protests against the Islamic Republic’s economic policies.

Earlier this week, an Israeli plane imprinted with the word “peace” on the outside of its cockpit flew from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, symbolically sealing a landmark diplomatic deal between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates.

Tensions over potential nuclear warfare – and ever-alarming concerns that more countries are endeavoring to join the niche arms arena – are once again on the rise.

Signatories of the Iranian nuclear deal argued Tuesday the U.S. could not unilaterally enforce sanctions on Iran for allegedly breaking the terms of the 2015 agreement, because the U.S. broke from the deal in May 2018.

Jared Kushner, the senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, hopes other nations will soon follow in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates after a historic flight this week between Israel and the country as part of a normalized relationship agreed upon last month.

Courts in the Iranian city of Shiraz slapped a champion wrestler with a shocking penalty of two death sentences and whipping for protesting in 2018 against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s disastrous economic policies.

Iran has agreed to allow U.N. nuclear inspectors into two sites where experts believe the regime may have kept undeclared nuclear material -- just as the U.S. is trying to rally the international community to take a tougher stance on the regime.

Unsophisticated Iranian hackers are attacking company networks with ransomware, a cybersecurity firm said.

The U.N. Security Council’s president on Tuesday attempted to dismiss a U.S. move to “snapback” all U.N. sanctions on Iran -- a denial that led a furious U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft to accuse the Council of “standing in the company of terrorists.”

Nine years ago, just before the Obama administration pulled the plug on a troop presence in Iraq, Baghdad signed a landmark $4.3 billion, U.S.-backed Lockheed Martin deal to bolster its burgeoning Air Force with their very own fleet of F-16 fighter jets. The first batch arrived three years later, under the guise that the force would stand on its own two feet.