Iran
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Iran News Links 14-15 January 2020
15 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 Britain, France and Germany (E3) Trigger JCPOA Dispute Mechanism, a Hostile Action Against Iran https://www.globalresearch.ca/e3-nations-trigger-jcpoa-dispute-mechanism-iran/5700677 Persian Peril: The Assassination of Qasem Soleimani and the Prospect of… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 14 January 2020
14 January 2020 • 19:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back How Come the “War Party” Always Wins? https://journal-neo.org/2020/01/14/how-come-the-war-party-always-wins/ A US thinktank eager for war on Iran has been throwing money at Boris Johnson’s cabinet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/Qiyj_2MfXwA/ Continue reading
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The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos
The Trump administration has given various justification for its assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani and commander Abu Mahdi al Muhandis. It claimed that there was an ‘imminent threat’ of an incident, even while not knowing what, where or when it would happen, that made the assassination necessary. Trump later said the thread was a… Continue reading
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“Iran Must Begin Acting Like A Normal Nation,” Says Totally Normal Nation
The government which runs a globe-spanning empire led by a reality TV host keeps talking about the lack of normality in the nation of Iran. Continue reading
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Was The Shootdown Of The Ukrainian Airplane Near Tehran Intended, A Screw-Up Or A ‘Mistake’?
An analysis of the circumstances under which the incident took place unfortunately shows that nothing went wrong. The strategic and tactical decisions that were made were all rational and made sense. But unfortunately shit happens even when everything else works as it is supposed to work. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 13 January 2020
13 January 2020 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back So, What? https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/01/so-what.html Abby Martin and Dan Kovalik: The Plot to Attack Iran: Myths, Oil and Revolution https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/abby-martin-and-dan-kovalik-the-plot-to-attack-iran-myths-oil-and-revolution/ Continue reading
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Iran News Links 11-12 January 2020
12 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 Democrats Outraged at Republican Accusations of Foreign Loyalty https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/12/democrats-outraged-at-republican-accusations-of-foreign-loyalty/ “Would the American Public Tolerate US Soldiers Defending Trump Hotels?” https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/12/would-american-public-tolerate-us-soldiers-defending-trump-hotels?cd-origin=rss Continue reading
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Iran, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone
The greatest asset of the propagandists is your belief that you haven’t been propagandized. Continue reading
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Axis Of Resistance Says How It Will Avenge Qassem Soleimani
The media continue to tell fairytales about Qassem Soleimani and about Trump’s decision to assassinate him and PMU leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Meanwhile the Resistance Axis announced how it will avenge their deaths. Continue reading
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Iran: Nothing Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgiven M.K. Bhadrakumar
President Trump’s credibility is so low that it is difficult to contest the perception that he blundered into the recent confrontation with Iran by ordering the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force. Many analysts point finger at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for persuading Trump against his better instincts. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 10-11 January 2020
11 January 2020 • 12:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back ‘I wish I was dead’: Senior IRGC commander accepts responsibility for downing Ukrainian jet, says it was mistaken for missile https://on.rt.com/a8u3 Deep Breaths as We Go… Continue reading
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Iranian Armed Forces Say They Inadvertently Shot Down The Ukrainian Plane
The Iranian Armed Forces General Staff just admitted (in Farsi) that its air defenses inadvertently shot down the Ukrainian flight PS 752 shortly after it took off on January 8 in Tehran (machine translation, slightly edited for readability): Continue reading
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Iran News Links 10 January 2020
10 January 2020 • 22:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Qasem Soleimani: Iran was targeting four US embassies, says Trump https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51068560 What Passes for Reality Is Not Worth Respecting https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/what-passes-for-reality-is-not-worth-respecting/ Continue reading
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Update On The Ukrainian Plane Incident Near Tehran
Some of the comments to yesterday’s piece on the accident disagreed with my warning that the purported evidence of a shoot down is yet insufficient and that other causes are very well possible. Continue reading
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The Deeper Story Behind the Assassination of Soleimani By Federico Pieraccini
Days after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, new and important information is coming to light from a speech given by the Iraqi prime minister. The story behind Soleimani’s assassination seems to go much deeper than what has thus far been reported, involving Saudi Arabia and China as well the U.S. dollar’s role as the… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 8-9 January 2019
9 January 2020 • 21:20 — 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 New Middle East “Made in Iran” is About to Be Born https://libya360.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/a-new-middle-east-made-in-iran-is-about-to-be-born/ Trump was never a break from the norm in US politics – and… Continue reading
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