Nukes

Image copyrightNurPhotoImage caption Protestors in Tehran take part in an anti-US rally following the killing of Qasem Soleimani The US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iran's retaliatory missile attack have heightened fears of a conflict…

Laura Ingraham on Tuesday used Iran’s missile strike on U.S. forces to launch an incendiary attack one of her longtime targets: the American media. (See the clip above.) The headline for the Fox News host’s segment was “Iran’s American Propagandists,” accomp…

By Debora MacKenzie People march during the funeral of Qassem Soleimani Majid Saeedi/Getty Images THE risk of Iran getting nuclear weapons has risen this week, as tensions increase after the US assassination of a senior Iranian military official, Qassem So…

China on Wednesday urged restraint from all sides after Iran launched missiles at Iraqi bases housing US and British troops, saying Beijing would play a "responsible role" in helping to defuse tensions Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles overnigh…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke on the phone with world leaders about the growing tensions in the Middle East in the wake of the killing of Iranian Maj.-Gen. Qassem Soleimani. To read more: http://cbc.ca/1.5417627 »»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a meeting with officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Tehran, in September. Zarif spoke to NPR on Tuesday. Vahid Salemi/AP Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells NPR that the U.S…

By Robin Emmott and John Irish BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - European parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could launch a dispute resolution process this week that might lead to renewed U.N. sanctions on Tehran, European diplomats said. Iran took a further st…

An Iranian general who replaced the leader killed by a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad vowed Sunday to take revenge as Tehran abandoned the remaining limits of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in response to the slaying. Esmail Ghaanis threat comes as the b…

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he did not expect North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to break his promise about denuclearization, but conceded that he might. Kim Jong Un said last week there were no longer grounds for…

Key Point: The deployment of a nuclear weapon, no matter how small, will raise the crisis level of a North Korean conflict. In the event of a war on the Korean peninsula, how would the United States respond to the use of a tactical nuclear weapon on the batt…