After graduating from Cretin-Derham High School in St. Paul and then the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Votel, who grew up on St. Paul’s West Side, rose up the ranks of the U.S. Army.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps effectively has assumed control over key state functions and blocked presidential appointments, according to an Iran International report.

Ship, detained under US policy to stop all Tehran-linked vessels, is under sanctions for smuggling Iranian crude.

Since the war, the Islamic Republic has been operating less as a hierarchy organized around a single dominant figure and more as a hardline coalition trying to manage war, diplomacy, and internal competition simultaneously.

The U.S. and Iran were expected to begin a new round of talks in Pakistan this week, but there's increasing uncertainty about when or if they will happen.

The official Telegram account of Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei late Tuesday published threats to attack U.S. and Israeli forces with drones and missiles. The statement comes as the U.S. has been blocking Iranian shipping after Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Monday that Tehran will not negotiate under pressure from President Donald Trump and warned that Iran has spent the past two weeks preparing new military options as a shaky ceasefire approached its deadline.

The ceramics industry in Gujarat’s Morbi has been badly hit by fuel crisis, with most units closed and workers laid off.