Iran
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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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Waging War on Iran without Turkey? Is Turkey Sleeping with the Enemy? The Russia -Turkey -Iran “Triple Entente” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Recent reports suggest that Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton, together with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are “doing everything possible to instigate a war with Iran”. Will they succeed? Continue reading
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Iran to even the nuclear score with US By M.K. Bhadrakumar
It is going to be 30 years in another six months since the USS Abraham Lincoln, named in honour of the 16th US President, was commissioned on Nov.11, 1989 as the 5th Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the American Navy. Now, as it leaves Croatia and heads toward the Persian Gulf, the carrier would have mixed… Continue reading
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Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran? By Vijay Prashad
On Sunday, May 5, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force had begun to make their way from the Mediterranean Sea toward the coastline of Iran. Iran, Bolton said, had made “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings.” He was, characteristically, not… Continue reading
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US Targets Iran, Presumes Dominion Over Global Trade By Ulson Gunnar
If Iran was truly a threat to global peace and security, why would nations like China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey be trading with it? Why would the European Union seek to trade with it? Why would the United States struggle and eventually resort to global-scale coercion to convince the majority of the planet… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 25 April 2019
25 April 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Paper Flags, Tehran: City of Love and Belmonte—Alienation, loneliness and other problems http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/26/sff1-a26.html The Dilemma of Imran Khan https://journal-neo.org/2019/04/25/the-dilemma-of-imran-khan/ Continue reading
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PEPE ESCOBAR: War on Iran & Calling America’s Bluff
Vast swathes of the West seem not to realize that if the Strait of Hormuz is shut down a global depression will follow, writes Pepe Escobar. Continue reading
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End Of Sanction Waivers For Iran’s Oil Will Hurt Trump’s Voter Support
The U.S. Secretary of State, “we lie, we cheat, we steal” (vid) Mike Pompeo, set out 12 demands to Iran which sum up to demanding a total capitulation. Iran will of course not fulfill any of them. It is the U.S. which, without reason, again raised hostility against the country. Given its geography and capabilities Iran has no… Continue reading
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Don’t expect US-Iran war before 2021 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
There is no reason to disbelieve the boast by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming credit personally for US President Donald Trump’s decision to designate Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a “foreign terrorist organisation” under American law. It is common knowledge that all major decisions and most minor decisions by Trump regarding the… Continue reading
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Iran floods reveal US hypocrisy, economic terrorism and “let ’em all die” policy By Ivan Kesić
Since March 19th, devastating floods swept across large areas of Iran, triggered by the heaviest downpours in many years. Heavy rainfall began two and a half weeks ago, overflowing rivers, washing away bridges, inundating houses and destroying infrastructural establishments in the northern, western and central parts of the country. Continue reading
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War summit in Warsaw
The conference jointly hosted by the US and Polish governments in Warsaw this week under the phony banner of working to “Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East” has laid bare the immense and imminent threat that US imperialism is preparing to drag humanity into another and potentially world catastrophic war. Continue reading
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Netanyahoo Asks Arabs to “Advance The Common Interest Of War With Iran”
The U.S. had called for a high level anti-Iran meeting in Poland. The purpose of the meeting was to bring with its allies and poodles into line with the U.S. agenda on Iran, to press them at least into issuing harsher sanctions. But the European rejected that. Continue reading
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NSA: Iran’s 1979 Revolution Revisited: Failures (and a Few Successes) of U.S. Intelligence and Diplomatic Reporting
U.S. intelligence analysts and Tehran-based diplomats struggled to come to grips with the tumult of the Iranian revolution, yet still managed at times to provide considerable detail for policymakers, according to a survey of formerly classified records posted today by the nongovernmental National Security Archive. Continue reading
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Britain and the Iranian Revolution: Arms & Secret Deals By Mark Curtis
While Iran now poses the biggest challenge to Western power in the Middle East, British relations with Islamic Iran were not always so antagonistic. Britain dropped its support for the Shah before the 1979 revolution, seeking to ingratiate itself with Iranian opposition forces led by Khomeini. Once his regime was in power, Whitehall went so… Continue reading
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Insights on the Iran deal, BRICS and handling a crisis in Venezuela By Pepe Escobar
An exclusive interview with former Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim on how BRICS came into being, how the nuclear deal was done with Tehran and how the South dealt with Chavez Continue reading
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