Iran
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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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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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