The U.S. has a troubled history of interference in Iranian politics in pursuit of Washington's interests. The CIA-backed coup that helped reinstall the pro-Western shah in 1953 was followed by the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ultimately ousted the monarchy and put in place the current theocracy.

The three countries are part of an agreement reached with Iran in 2015 to rein in its nuclear program, from which President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S.

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Larijani's remarks, even if intended as a joke, will add to speculation over possible retaliation by Iran for the U.S. attacks.

Donald Trump‘s bomb blitz on Iran was not the “spectacular military success” the president claims, according to new leaks. Knewz.com can reveal leaks from the U.S. Defense Department suggest the bunker-busting bombs dropped on Iran’s three nuclear enrichment sites might only have set the country’s nuclear capabilities back by months,

Fox News host Mark Levin asks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu how the Trump administration has impacted the trajectory of his country on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.'

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that isolationists within the Trump administration "may have lost some of their footing," adding that the president himself is not an isolationist and is being more forceful toward Russian President Vladimir Putin's lack of willingness to negotiate the Ukraine war's end.

Joe Rogan used his latest podcast episode to weigh in on the Epstein files controversy amid public uproar over the Department of Justice’s probe into the late pedophile and his associates. The podcast giant lambasted the Trump administration’s announcement that there was never a list or footage revealing clients of the high-flying sex pest.

France’s foreign minister says sanctions lifted under a 2015 deal would return if no breakthrough on nuclear issue.

Iran is threatening to raise uranium enrichment to weapons-grade levels and exit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Western powers move forward with reimposing United Nations sanctions, according to Iranian state media.

Trump is counting on the threat of more attacks to pressure Tehran into a nuclear agreement, but Israel is skeptical a pact would prevent Iran from moving toward a nuclear weapon.