Iran

  • Iran News Links 28-29 January 2020

    29 January 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back U.S. Demands Iraq Either Join U.S. War Against Iran or Be Destroyed https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/28/u-s-demands-iraq-either-join-u-s-war-against-iran-or-be-destroyed/ Today’s Links 29 January 2020 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2020/01/todays-links_29.html Continue reading

  • US IMPERIALISM, THE GULF AND CHINA – A BROKEN WORLD ECONOMY

    28 January 2020 — theplanningmotive.com MARX: SO OFTEN READ, SO SELDOM UNDERSTOOD. Finance Capital, Monopoly Capital and Imperialism Iranian General Qasem Soleimani’s assassination by the USA brings the issue of imperialism back to the fore. The General was not assassinated because he was planning future attacks. His fate was sealed on December 27th a week… Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 26-27 January 2020

    27 January 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Russia, Iran agree to look at format of parliamentary dialogue of Caspian nations https://tass.com/world/1113385 Today’s Links 27 January 2020 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2020/01/todays-links_27.html Continue reading

  • Russia stood by Iran in showdown with US

    The US President Donald Trump first said there were ‘no casualties’ in the Iranian missile attack on the Ain al-Asad military airbase in Iraq on January 8. “We suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases,” Trump had said. Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 24-25 January 2020

    25 January 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The Troubling Decline of International Law https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/25/the-troubling-decline-of-international-law/ Zarif: person who downed Ukrainian airliner by mistake is in prison https://tass.com/world/1112935 Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 24 January 2020

    24 January 2020 • 16:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back A Bit On Iranian Boeing And Other Business. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-bit-on-iranian-boeing-and-other.html Three Years into Trump’s Presidency, What Left of the American Left? https://www.mintpressnews.com/three-years-trump-presidency-left-democrats/264281/ Continue reading

  • ‘This Is Already a Hot War the US Is Prosecuting Against Iran’

    Janine Jackson interviewed media scholar Gregory Shupak about the Soleimani assassination for the January 10, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.  Continue reading

  • Washington and What Lies Ahead For Iran

    While some people may think that Washington achieved its Iran-linked antiterrorism goal with the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, it appears that they would be sadly mistaken.  A recent interview that appeared in a London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat with United States Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, has telegraphed Washington’s future moves against Iran which… Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 22-23 January 2020

    23 January 2020 • 17:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Dutch foreign minister’s speculations over plane crash in Iran impermissible — Zakharova https://tass.com/politics/1112407 Today’s Links 23 January 2020 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2020/01/todays-links_23.html Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 21-22 January 2020

    22 January 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back In the Name of ‘Security’ Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding Information Clearing House Headlines 21 January 2020 https://williambowles.info/2020/01/22/information-clearing-house-headlines-21-january-2020/ Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 21 January 2020

    21 January 2020 • 18:00– The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence https://williambowles.info/2020/01/21/the-uss-inalienable-right-to-violence/ Western media focus on a ‘clown’, but US murders still the real story in Iran http://thesaker.is/western-media-focus-on-a-clown-but-us-murders-still-the-real-story-in-iran/ Continue reading

  • Iran Counters EU Threat Of Snapback Sanctions

    U.S. President Donald Trump wants to destroy the nuclear agreement with Iran. He has threatened the EU-3 poodles in Germany, Britain and France with a 25% tariff on their car exports to the U.S. unless they end their role in the JCPOA deal. Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 19-20 January 2020

    20 January 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Today’s Links 20 January 2020 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2020/01/todays-links_20.html Top Russian scholars warn about main global threats for this year https://tass.com/society/1110941 Continue reading

  • The Murder Of Qassem Soleimani Will Deter No One

    The Trump administration sees the U.S. assassination of Qassem Soleimani as a form of deterrence not only with regards to Iran but also towards Russia, China and others. That view is wrong. Continue reading

  • Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752? Iran Shot It Down but There May be More to the Story

    The claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a “terrorist” on a mission to carry out an “imminent” attack that would kill hundreds of Americans turned out to be a lie, so why should one believe anything else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq? To be sure, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 departing from Tehran’s… Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 18-19 January 2020

    19 January 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back “Death to the Islamic Republic” they chant now- and they call themselves Iranians https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/18/death-to-the-islamic-republic-they-chant-now-and-they-call-themselves-iranians/ How Trump Rebelled Against The Generals https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/18/how-trump-rebelled-against-the-generals/ Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 16-17 January 2020

    17 January 2020 • 19:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back On Iran-US Crisis (Part I) ‘Why do you allow the United States to bully you?’ – Iranian FM to Europe over nuclear deal tensions https://on.rt.com/a927 Continue reading

  • Trump’s EU Poodles – Germany, Britain And France – Obey His Order To Kill The Nuclear Deal With Iran

    The European poodles who co-signed the nuclear deal with Iran – Britain, France and Germany (the EU3) – have been told by the Trump administration to kill the agreement. Today they started the process to do so. The other co-signers, Russia, China and Iran, continue to support the deal. Continue reading

  • Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration

    A bigger bang awaits us throughout the decade: the myriad declinations of the New Great Game in Eurasia, which pits the US against Russia, China and Iran, the three major nodes of Eurasia integration. Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 15-16 January 2020

    16 January 2020 • 14:30  — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back US War of Terror Continues: Assassinating Iran’s Top Anti-ISIS General http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2020/01/us-war-of-terror-continues.html US to Iraq: ‘Vote All You Want, We’re Not Leaving!’ https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/16/us-to-iraq-vote-all-you-want-were-not-leaving/ Continue reading