Iran
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Europe And The New Sanctions On Iran
The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on Iran which will make ANY trade with the country very difficult Continue reading
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The Time of Troubles in Transcaucasia – Part 1
Three days into the renewed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh in the Transcaucasian region — also known as South Caucasus — it is becoming clear that the binary narrative dished out by western commentators of this being a Turkish-Russian clash of wills and strategies is either simply naive or purposively deceptive. The point is, Russia and Turkey… Continue reading
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Russia has key role to play in Iran issue
In what must be one of his sharpest rhetorical outbursts against the Trump administration, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Saturday of “savagery” for inflicting $150 billion of damage on Iran due to sanctions. Continue reading
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Pompeo threatens to light the fuse in Persian Gulf
The US Fifth Fleet announced on September 18 that a Carrier Strike Group comprising USS Nimitz passed through the Strait of Hormuz with the guided-missile cruisers USS Princeton and USS Philippine Sea and guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett. After a gap of some ten months, a US aircraft carrier is being deployed to the Persian Gulf. Continue reading
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COUP 53: New Documentary on Overthrow of Iran’s Mosaddeq
Washington, D.C., August 17, 2020 – Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service – MI6 – took part in the 1953 kidnapping of the chief of police of Tehran, Iran, according to a recently recovered interview of an ex-MI6 operative that is featured in a new documentary film, COUP 53. The full interview transcript is posted today for the first… Continue reading
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Israel Rolls Out Dystopian Cyber Espionage Award for US-Backed Digital Saboteurs
The myriad cybersecurity, AI, and IoT startups emerging out of Israel’s state-funded organizations have extensive ties to American Fortune 100 companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many others. Continue reading
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Nuclear Lunacy: The Ugly, the Good and the Bad
No nation that possesses nuclear arsenals or those aspiring to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes has been subjected to the kinds of rigorous inspection and verification regimes — some bordering on humiliation and hijacking the country’s sovereignty — than Iran. Continue reading
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Latest Acts of Piracy by US Against Iran
A new intense confrontation between Iran and the United States is expected to take place in the future. And it could very well turn into a full-on war. Continue reading
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Iran surges in Venezuela in defiance of US sanctions
Escorted by the Venezuelan navy and air force, an Iranian oil tanker named Fortune has entered that country’s waters on Sunday, amidst intense speculation whether the US would interfere with the delivery. The US has imposed oil sanctions against Venezuela and Iran and had said it is monitoring the Iranian tanker. Continue reading
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The Persian Rug Weaver Strikes in the US’s ‘Backyard’ Through Venezuela
Iranian tankers were 2200 km from the US coast when the Iranian-flagged “Fortune”, followed by “Forest”, entered Venezuelan waters, challenging the US embargo and the US’s threats. The Islamic Republic was broadcasting loud and clear a strong message. Continue reading
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Pompeo and the capricious virus By M.K. Bhadrakumar
Iran has delivered a devastating blow to the ego of the Trump administration, puncturing it beyond repair, by its announcement Sunday that mosques will start reopening in low-risk areas of the country from May 5. Continue reading
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As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Covid-19 has hammered few countries as hard as it has hit Iran, which reports (as of April 8) 64,586 cases and 3,993 deaths. US sanctions are a major reason that Iranians are getting infected with and dying from the coronavirus in such large numbers: The US’s economic warfare softened Iran up for the pandemic well before… Continue reading
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Business as Usual: Coronavirus, Iran and US Sanctions
Never discount the importance of venality in international relations. While pandemics should provide the glue for a unified front in response – we keep being told of fighting this horrendous “invisible enemy” – it’s business as usual in other respects. The United States, with a disparate, confused medical system that risks being overwhelmed, remains committed… Continue reading
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Expert: US sanctions on Iran, Venezuela during pandemic could be genocidal
Iran has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, and new US sanctions are making it worse. Alfred de Zayas, a former UN Special Rapporteur, says that intensified US sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during the crisis are “insane”, and possibly genocidal. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 28-29 February 2020
29 February 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 fall of the U.S. empire and the coming economic crash https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-fall-of-us-empire-and-coming.html Turkey & Syria on brink of WAR in Idlib: How did it come to this? Latest situation… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 17-18 February 2020
18 February 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 Selected Articles: America “Down the Rabbit Hole” https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-further-down-rabbit-hole/5703892 US Pressuring Iraq Not to Reveal Details of Soleimani Killing: MP https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-pressuring-iraq-not-reveal-details-soleimani-killing-mp/5703918 Continue reading
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Iran News Links 12-14 February 2020
16 February 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 Can The World’s Second Superpower Rise From The Ashes Of Twenty Years Of War? https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/02/15/can-the-worlds-second-superpower-rise-from-the-ashes-of-twenty-years-of-war/ Lavrov holds talks with Iran’s Zarif on sidelines of Munich Security Conference https://tass.com/politics/1120553 Continue reading
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IRGC Aerospace Forces Commander’s debriefing about Iran’s strike against Al-Assad US Airbase
Press conference by the Commander of the Aerospace Forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Ali Hajizadeh, on January 10, devoted to the Iranian strikes against al-Assad US Airbase. Continue reading
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US Policy Vs. Iran: Apex Desperation
In Washington’s losing battle to maintain hegemony in the Middle East at the expense of the actual people and nations that exist there – it has resorted to high-level assassinations, unilateral strikes against targets within sovereign nations against the expressed will of the governments presiding over them, all while exposing what appears to be growing… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 6-12 February 2020
12 February 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 “Mobbed up” American Policy, the Global Shakedown https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/12/mobbed-up-american-policy-the-global-shakedown/ How The 1979 Revolution Reshaped Iran as well as Saudi Arabia https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-1979-reshaped-iran-saudi-arabia/5703483 Continue reading
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