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The United States has thus far shown great restraint in staying out of a war in the Middle East, despite carrying out air strikes in Yemen and in Iraq and Syria. But will the latest deadly attack on U.S. forces in Jordan, allegedly by Iranian-supported paramilitaries, change that policy?
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said that it seized a foreign oil tanker carrying around 2 million liters of what it described as smuggled fuel near the country's southern coast, local media reported on January 28.
Missiles are flying in Yemen, and so are the warnings of more to come between a U.S.-led coalition and the Iran-backed Huthi extremist group.
The United States secretly alerted Iran that Islamic State (IS) was plotting an attack earlier this month that killed 95 people in Kerman Province, becoming the deadliest incident in the country since the clerical establishment came to power in 1979.
Activists in Iran and abroad have announced plans to go on hunger strike in protest against a rise in the clerical establishment's use of the death penalty, including the execution of a 23-year-old protester who was diagnosed with a mental condition.