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In this image from a video made available by the U.S. Navy, a boat of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) operates in close proximity to patrol coastal ship USS Sirocco (PC 6) and expeditionary fast transport USNS Choctaw County (T-EPF 2) in the Strait of Hormuz, Monday, June 20, 2022. A U.S. Navy warship fired a warning flare to wave off an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat coming straight at it during a tense encounter in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, officials said Tuesday. (U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. warship fires warning flare in latest standoff with Iranian navy

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with the country's top officials in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. On May 25, President Biden's special envoy for Iran told the Senate that the prospects for returning to the Obama-era deal meant to curb Iran’s nuclear program are "tenuous at best." (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) **FILE**

Biden’s struggling Iran policy faces heat from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A Revolutionary Guard member walks past Qiam missile displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the Guard a day prior to second anniversary of Iran's missile strike on U.S. bases in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Iran put three ballistic missiles on display on Friday, as talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers flounder. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Over 500 Iranian American professionals urge Biden to keep Revolutionary Guard on terror list

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Enrique Mora, a leading European Union diplomat, second right, attends a meeting with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, third left, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 27, 2022. Mora held talks in Tehran amid hopes that an agreement to restore Iran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers could be completed. Others are unidetified. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Biden risks emboldening terrorism by removing Iran’s Paramilitary from terror list

By Tom Ridge

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Biden is in Poland for the final leg of his four-day trip to Europe as he tries to maintain unity among allies and support Ukraine's defence. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Biden faces growing pressure over nuclear talks, rumored plan to pull Iran’s IRGC from terror list

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A cleric walks past Zolfaghar, top, and Dezful missiles displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a day prior to the second anniversary of Iran's missile strike on U.S. bases in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Iran put three ballistic missiles on display on Friday, as talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers flounder. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Dissident group to Biden: Trump was right to list Iran’s IRGC as terrorist organization

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Posters of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in Jan. 3, 2020, are seen in front of ballistic missiles exhibited on display in Tehran by Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Jan. 7,2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) **FILE**

Iran’s Quds Force training proxy naval forces, opposition group says

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A worker cleans a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, installed to commemorate the anniversary of his killing, in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, in Ghobeiry, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

White House warns Iran against attacks marking anniversary of Soleimani strike

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Ebrahim Raisi, center, attends a funeral procession for unknown Iranian soldiers who were killed during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, whose remains were recently recovered from former battlefields, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. Thousands of mourners poured into the streets of Iranian cities on Thursday for the mass funeral of 250 victims of the war, a testament to the brutal conflict's widespread scale and enduring legacy 35 years later. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran imposes sanctions on dozens of Americans over 2020 Soleimani Strike

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A worshipper chants slogan during a pro-Palestinian demonstration after Eid al Fitr prayers in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Gaza braced for more Israeli airstrikes and communal violence raged across Israel after weeks of protests and violence in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian Quds Force commander strongly backs Hamas in Israel clash

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

High-ranking Iranian general dies of heart disease at 65

Associated Press

In this photo released on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, a missile is launched in a drill in Iran. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a drill Saturday launching anti-warship ballistic missiles at a simulated target in the Indian Ocean, state television reported, amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP)

Iranian missile lands 20 miles from commercial ship during military drill: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, April 15, 2020, photo made available by U.S. Navy, Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels sail close to U.S. military ships in the Persian Gulf near Kuwait. (U.S. Navy via AP) **FILE**

Iran navy to continue operating in Persian Gulf despite U.S. warning

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, April 15, 2020, photo made available by U.S. Navy, Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels sail close to U.S. military ships in the Persian Gulf near Kuwait. (U.S. Navy via AP) **FILE**

Donald Trump tells U.S. Navy to ‘shoot down and destroy’ Iranian gunboats that harass American ships

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this file photo released Wednesday, April 22, 2020, by Sepahnews, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division, stands in front of an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite in an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province. The Guard said Wednesday it put the Islamic Republic's first military satellite into orbit, dramatically unveiling what experts described as a secret space program with a surprise launch that came amid wider tensions with the United States. (Sepahnews via AP) ** FILE **

Trump ‘shoot down’ tweet, Iran satellite launch increase tensions

By Guy Taylor and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Pompeo: Iran must be held accountable for military satellite launch

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday it put the Islamic Republic's first military satellite into orbit, dramatically unveiling what experts described as a secret space program with a surprise launch that came amid wider tensions with the United States. (IRIB via AP)

Iran’s Guard says it launched satellite amid U.S. tensions

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

NORTH ARABIAN GULF (April 15, 2020) Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) vessels conducted unsafe and unprofessional actions against U.S. Military ships by crossing the ships’ bows and sterns at close range while operating in international waters of the North Arabian Gulf. The guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) is conducting joint interoperability operations in support of maritime security in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo) ** FILE **

Iran’s IRGC upgrades anti-warship missiles with double the range

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

NORTH ARABIAN GULF (April 15, 2020) Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) vessels conducted unsafe and unprofessional actions against U.S. Military ships by crossing the ships’ bows and sterns at close range while operating in international waters of the North Arabian Gulf. The guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) is conducting joint interoperability operations in support of maritime security in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo) ** FILE **

Iran ships make ‘harassing’ maneuvers at U.S. ships

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Protesters demonstrate in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, against the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Questions abound for Iranian military in wake of Soleimani killing

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times