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Washington threatens new attack on Syria amid US war buildup in Persian Gulf By Bill Van Auken
Just days after President Donald Trump threatened to put an “official end” to Iran, Washington has threatened renewed military aggression against Syria based on unsubstantiated charges of the use of chemical weapons in the military campaign being waged by Damascus against Al Qaeda-linked militias in the northwestern province of Idlib. Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 22 May 2019
22 May 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Canada’s NDP MP Randall Garrison’s Disgraceful Anti-Palestinian Politics https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/canadas-ndp-mp-randall-garrisons-disgraceful-anti-palestinian-politics/ Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 21 May 2019
21 May 2019 21:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Russia hopes Iran won’t suspend its commitments under JCPOA http://tass.com/world/1059367 Tulsi Gabbard on the US seeking a pretext to go to war with Iran http://thesaker.is/tulsi-gabbard-on-the-us-seeking-a-pretext-to-go-to-war-with-iran/ Continue reading
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Venezuela, Iran: Trump and the deep state by Thierry Meyssan
The US Press is spreading a false narrative of the events in Venezuela and the rise of tension between Washington and Teheran. Given the contradictory declarations of both sides, it is almost impossible to discern the truth. After having checked the facts, we need to deepen our analysis and take into account the opposition between… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 20 May 2019
20 May 2019 20:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day ‘It would mark the end of Iraq’: Shia Clerics warn against US war with Iran https://www.rt.com/news/459841-iraq-clerics-warn-war-iran/ US Foreign Policy is Nothing Short of Low-Intensity Warfare Against the Whole Planet by Finian… Continue reading
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Trump-Bolton Aggression Against Iran Contained by Russia, Japan, China, and EU
19 May 2019 — TRNN Vijay Prashad says the very dangerous statements, economic sanctions and military aggression unleashed by Washington this week against Iran was countered by cool headed diplomacy by Japan, Russia, EU and China (inc. transcript) The likelihood of a U.S. war with Iran is increasing, despite alternately isolationist and provocative messages coming… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 18-19 May 2019
19 May 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Trump-Bolton Aggression Against Iran Contained by Russia, Japan, China, and EU https://williambowles.info/2019/05/19/trump-bolton-aggression-against-iran-contained-by-russia-japan-china-and-eu/ Iran and Why It Would be Insane for America to Go to War There https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-why-insane-america-go-war-there/5677879 Continue reading
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Media Setting Up Iran as New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted By Janine Jackson
The Washington Post editorial’s headline (5/14/19) had the US “drifting” toward war with Iran—another example, as analyst Nima Shirazi quipped, of the “world’s superpower somehow having no agency over its own imperialism.” Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 17-18 May 2019
18 May 2019 — The New Dark Age US warns airlines risk ‘miscalculation or misidentification’ over Persian Gulf https://www.rt.com/news/459679-us-iran-miscalculation-warning/ Chinese purchases of Iranian oil raise tantalizing questions Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 16-17 May 2019
17 May 2019 20:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated through the day Foreign Office warns against Iran travel for British-Iranians https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48314799 Top Ten Differences Between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War https://www.globalresearch.ca/top-ten-differences-iraq-war-trumps-proposed-iran-war/5677742 Continue reading
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Don’t Iraq Iran by David Swanson
If Iran had spent the last few decades lying about and threatening the United States, and had attacked and built military bases in Canada and Mexico, and had imposed sanctions on the United States that were creating great suffering, and then a lying scheming war-crazed Iranian official announced that he believed the United States had… Continue reading
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Target Iran! By Francis Boyle
The author delivered this speech at the Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on June 22, 2006. That year the U.S. had deployed aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf and tensions then, as now, were high. Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 16 May 2019
16 May 2019 20:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Who Really Gains from the Gulf Ship ‘Sabotage’? by Finian Cunningham + Wilkerson: Manufactured Iranian Threat in the Persian Gulf https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/05/16/who-really-gains-from-the-gulf-ship-sabotage-by-finian-cunningham-wilkerson-manufactured-iranian-threat-in-the-persian-gulf/ Answering the Mysterious Call of An Artist’s Spiritual Vocation https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/05/16/answering-the-mysterious-call-of-an-artists-spiritual-vocation/ Continue reading
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The Lunacy Of Waging A War On Iran From Which China And Russia Will Win
The scare mongering about an attack on Iran continues. Bolton must be laughing his ass off how easy he can play the issue based on nothing. He simply counters any debunking of the alleged ‘thread from Iran’ by upping the ante. Yesterday a British general denied that any such threat exists in the area of his responsibility: Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 13-15 May 2019
15 May 2019 16:55 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Putin: Imprudent for Iran to quit nuke deal, since Tehran would be accused of its collapse http://tass.com/world/1058459 Trump, Iran and the nuclear deal: What’s happened? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48283132 Continue reading
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India’s betrayal of Iran is only the beginning By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The sudden visit to New Delhi by the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif for a meeting on May 14 with the outgoing External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the dying days of the Modi government underscores dramatically how much Tehran has been traumatised by the Indian decision under American pressure to summarily stop all… Continue reading
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Iran calls recent tanker attacks in UAE nothing but ‘Israeli mischief’
The recent damage sustained to four commercial vessels off the UAE coast is nothing but Israeli meddling, an Iranian parliamentary spokesman said on Tuesday, as US-Iran tensions in the Persian Gulf continue to heat up. Continue reading
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Debunking the False United States Pretext For War Against Iran at Fujairah
With a shocking level of predictability, the United States is publicly blaming “Iran or Iranian-backed proxies” for an alleged attack against Saudi-Arabian shipping at the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. Continue reading
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U.S. Increases Risk Of War On Iran Without A Path To De-escalation
Is the U.S. military, which lost its powerful positions in the White House, trying to get National Security Advisor John ‘Stache’ Bolton fired? Continue reading
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With the US-Iran War Ball Now Rolling, Could an “Accident” or “False Flag” Serve as Pretext? by Whitney Webb
As tensions between the U.S. and Iran threaten to boil over, the probability of a provocation or “accident” that would provoke hostilities between the two countries is higher than ever. U.K. Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt, after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, openly stated as much on Monday, telling reporters in Brussels that… Continue reading
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