Category: Iran
Luis Salas: Venezuela’s Economy Under Siege
Juan Cole: Russia shoots down “Ridiculous” Trump demand for Arms Embargo on Tehran
Richard Falk: Revisiting Meeting Ayatollah Khomeini in January, 1979
Medea Benjamin: Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump’s War on Iran?
Vijay Prashad: Why Iran’s Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders Through Washington
Juan Cole: Fundamentalist Pandemics
Ali Abunimah: Ilhan Omar backs Israel lobby campaign against Iran
Sarah Lazare: Right-Wing Think Tanks Using Covid-19 To Push War with Iran
Gareth Porter: Netanyahu pushed US towards war with Iran
Juan Cole: Trump failed on Coronavirus, now wants to “shoot down” tiny Iranian Skiffs
A polemical economist reflects on the government’s policies in the face of harsh sanctions, including its general tendency toward dollarization.
The Neoconservative wing of the Trump administration, which is dying to drag the United States into a war with Iran, suffered an embarrassing setback on Monday when its latest flimsy scheme crashed and burned.
A major dimension of AK’s legacy is that he managed to bring stability to the Islamic Republic by overcoming formidable obstacles during the first difficult decade of its existence. Unfortunately, for Iran the struggle goes on with no end in sight
The message of these groups dedicated to “countering extremism” is clear and none too subtle: Saudi Arabia and the UAE are always U.S. allies and victims of extremism, never a problem or a source of danger, violence or chaos
At the United Nations China has been outspoken against the regime change policy driven by the United States against both states. It has been this Chinese shield that enabled the tankers to go through what is effectively a U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela
What Evangelicals Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
In an unexpected move, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has reportedly signed on to a letter circulated by AIPAC, the powerful Israel lobby group on Capitol Hill
Amid an unprecedented global crisis, the self-declared “guardians of order” see an opening to push for more war, death and destruction
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran
I doubt that Trump’s tweet will last longer than his memory of calling the coronavirus a hoax has. He’s just seeing if he can get a rise from his base by … acting like a scoundrel.