World & Nation
Iran says it conducted a successful space launch, the latest for its program the West alleges improves its ballistic missile program.
The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said that as of Feb. 8, Iran has 605.8 pounds of uranium enriched up to 60%.
Jamshid Sharmahd lived in California, was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, and imprisoned as a dissident in Iran.
Politics
The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs
A U.S. official says Iran obtained a meeting with Elon Musk in a step that appeared aimed at easing tensions with President-elect Donald Trump.
Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, has been executed in Iran.
Many Iranians, especially educated ones, were reconciled to constraints on nuclear weapons development. Now, fear of an Israeli strike may be changing that.
Italy has released an Iranian citizen wanted by the U.S. over a drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans after his arrest was revoked.
California
Californians were able to look to the sky to see an unarmed missile as the Air Force launched the Minuteman III from Vandenberg base.
A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, briefly starting a fire, in an attack Kyiv blamed on Russia.