On Thursday, McCaffery's Hawkeyes took the court in Indianapolis for their Big Ten tournament game against Northwestern in shooting shorts that supported Pat's battle. MORE: Big Ten Tournament | Tournament Week scoreboard Hopefully Fran and the team can rally behind the cause and put on a thrilling tournament performance.
Lt. Kelly Hindman, a district commander of Post 7 in Fort Dodge wrote on his Facebook that he wished “there was a sniper at Carver Hawkeye (Arena) to shoot the color commentator in the head…cause he is driving me nuts.” The color commentator for Saturday’s Ohio State - Iowa game was Dakich, a former interim head coach at Indiana University. MORE: Coach K’s biggest wins | 13 teams who could miss the NCAA Tourney | Craziest fans...
The resilient Cyclones found themselves in another large halftime hole in Saturday’s Big 12 Tournament championship game but rallied from 14 points down to defeat ninth-ranked and No. 1 seed Kansas, 70-66. Iowa State has now won the conference tournament in back-to-back seasons. MORE: Inspirational story | Field of 68 update | PHOTOS: Tourneys gallery “The comeback kids strike again,” proclaimed Georges Niang, who led the Cyclones with 19 points....
Amini was arrested by morality police on September 13, who accused her of breaking Iran’s strict law requiring women to cover their hair fully with a headscarf. Amini, who was reportedly beaten after her arrest, died in a Tehran hospital, having spent three days in a coma. Iranian authorities say she suffered a “sudden heart failure,” but this explanation has been rejected by her family. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, under the new rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, any female over the age of 9 had to wear a hijab in public in Iran....
As The Foreign Desk first reported, a new civic campaign launched by dissidents inside Iran has begun to percolate among opposition elements both inside and outside the country. The grassroots effort, dubbed “No to the Islamic Republic” (and boasting a distinctive graphic and anthem) has emerged in recent days in Iran’s bazaars and public places in the form of pamphlets, graffiti and other media. Since then, Iran’s former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, as well as hundreds of influential artists, musicians and cultural personalities, have embraced its call for an abolition of clerical rule....
“Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched,” Zarif tweeted. “We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression.” Newsweek reached out to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication....
Biden faced immediate backlash from JCPOA critics in the U.S. and abroad after his administration announced that the U.S. is now ready to meet with the deal’s other signatories with a view to resurrecting the accord, which has been stuck in the doldrums since President Donald Trump ended U.S. compliance in 2018. Biden rescinded the UN sanctions the Trump administration claimed to have reimposed on Iran via a JCPOA “snapback” mechanism....
Israeli Lieutenant-General Aviv Kochavi, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, announced during a Tuesday address to Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies that he felt a return by President Joe Biden to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran or similar arrangement would be a “bad thing operationally and strategically” as it would allow the Islamic republic a fast track to building a bomb—something Iranian leadership has always denied it sought to do....
Just days after senior Iranian nuclear official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was gunned down in the streets east of the capital Tehran in a yet unclaimed attack on Friday, all but nine of the Islamic Consultative Assembly or Majlis’ 260 lawmakers voted to require the government to suspend more measures of the nuclear deal reached with the United States and other major powers in 2015 but abandoned three years later by President Donald Trump....
A few months after his dusty two-hour dash to the border, Jafari had a very different encounter with the Americans. In Sharm al-Sheikh, the posh Egyptian Red Sea resort that hosted a major regional conference on Iraq in May, he sat across the table from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as part of the Iranian delegation. The Sharm gathering led to historic talks in Baghdad between U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi—which Jafari says, quite diplomatically, “we’re very serious about....
Zarif is currently in New York for meetings at the United Nations headquarters, under an unusually strict visa that will restrict him and his team to a six-block area between the Iranian mission and the UN building. He is using his time in the U.S. to launch fresh attacks on the U.S. and President Donald Trump’s administration as the diplomatic crisis between the two countries rolls on. Over several months of tensions, the U....
Former Iranian Central Bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati spoke with the Associated Press about the possible relations between the U.S. and Iran, but said he had yet to see anything “serious” from U.S. President Joe Biden. “I think we haven’t seen anything serious from Mr. Biden’s side yet,” Hemmati said. “They first need to go back to the (nuclear deal) that they withdrew from. If we see the process and more confidence is built, then we can talk about that....
Hagel is “obsessed” with the war in Iraq, says his brother Tom, who served with him in Vietnam. “You can’t have a conversation with him without this coming up.” During Christmas, Hagel looked “markedly older and grayer than when I saw him this summer down at the beach,” says Tom. In an interview with NEWSWEEK last week, Hagel teared up when he began talking about a Purple Heart ceremony he had attended in August in Lincoln, Neb....
Brit and U.S. spooks also differ on the credibility of the German informant “Curve Ball,” who claimed Saddam had built a fleet of mobile factories to produce germ-warfare agents. U.S. officials say the CIA lost confidence in the informer–and CIA assertions that two trailers found after the war were mobile biowarfare plants have been discounted. The “privy counsellors” said U.K. intel still thinks the trailers “could be used” for biowarfare production....
Since he first went public with his opposition to former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld last spring, “I’ve had nothing but absolute support” from his colleagues inside the military, Batiste told NEWSWEEK. “No one has objected.” He said he had sent his complaints about too few troops and resources in Iraq “up the chain of command.” But Raymond DuBois, former top assist-ant to Rumsfeld, says that Batiste, while he was serving, never registered his unhappiness about Iraq directly with either Rumsfeld or the then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz....
George Bush said his plan was designed to keep Saddam Hussein from pounding the rebellious Shiite Muslims of southern Iraq, including thousands of fighting men who have holed up in the vast marshes around the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Bush claimed he was enforcing United Nations Resolution 688, which orders Saddam to stop persecuting his own people but does not specifically authorize armed enforcement. Many of America’s Arab allies opposed the plan, fearing it would dismember Iraq....
The White House doesn’t seem to be taking much comfort in Maliki now. Late last week Bush gathered a group of his dwindling Republican supporters in the third-floor solarium at the White House to discuss his latest plan to salvage the war in Iraq–the deployment of 21,000 more U.S. troops to pacify Baghdad and Anbar province. According to one participant, conservative Sen. Craig Thomas of Wyoming, many of the GOP senators expressed doubts that America could depend on Maliki....
Yet Iraq’s sectarian fighting is, to an extraordinary degree, about the very issue of sharing oil. The country’s political future and its energy future have converged. The side that wins in this burgeoning civil war gets control, in theory, over some $35 billion a year in oil revenue, making up 90 percent of the Iraqi budget. The side that loses–well, they fear they won’t get anything at all. And Iraq’s daily spasms of violence are closely tied to maneuvering over the future control of oil, as well as rampant oilfield corruption....
Just 12 senior international games were played since the last world ranking update and there has been little change in the overall complexion of the table. Keane sends good wishes to Barack Obama The top 34 is unchanged, with Argentina still at the summit, closely followed by Brazil and Germany in second and third place. Ireland remain just behind the Netherlands and ahead of Turkey as they look forward to their next World Cup qualifier, which comes in March against Wales, who are ranked 12th....
The IRS plans to auction off the right to collect roughly $1.28 million the Mets still owe to their slugging outfielder, whose career was beset by off-the-field struggles. The money will be paid in 223 monthly installments. The auction, set for Jan. 20, has a minimum bid of $550,000. So why do the Mets still owe Strawberry money? And why can’t the former player collect it? The answer is a bit convoluted....
