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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Iran News Links 3-4 February 2020

    4 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 US is going to the Cyber-mattresses https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/04/the-us-is-going-to-the-cyber-mattresses/ Nazi collabo families and racist propaganda in the New York Times https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/02/04/nazi-collabo-families-and-racist-propaganda-in-the-new-york-times/ Continue reading

  • Israel has played a key role in US aggression towards Iran

    Before the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Israel played a key and overlooked role in the Trump administration’s aggression campaign against Iran. Continue reading

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  • Iran News Links 30 January – 2 February 2020

    2 February 2020 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Iran offers $80,000 to families of each Ukrainian killed in plane crash – Zelensky https://tass.com/world/1115527 Iran to unveil new generation centrifuges in April – official https://tass.com/world/1115503 Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 29- 30 January 2020

    30 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 Do All Countries have the Right to Fight Terrorism? https://journal-neo.org/2020/01/30/do-all-countries-have-the-right-to-fight-terrorism/ NIAC Action Statement on Passage of Legislation Prohibiting Unauthorized War with Iran https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/01/30/niac-action-statement-passage-legislation-prohibiting-unauthorized-war-iran?cd-origin=rss Continue reading

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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