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Video: IAEA Former Inspector: No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Activity at Parchin
Robert Kelley: Recent claims of IAEA that Iranians trying to hide activity at Parchin site not supported by evidence Continue reading
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US Decline? (No. 7) Deepa Kumar: Anti-Imperialist Sentiments Growing across the World
The United States has established a military base whenever it set foot into a new country. According to former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ron Paul, the United States has military personnel in some 130 countries and statistics show that it has bases in more than 30 countries, from Singapore, South Korea and… Continue reading
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From Iran Sanctions To US 'Dirty Tricks' By Dr. Ismail Salami
In what can be seen as a blatantly overt interference in Iran’s affairs, US President Barack Obama has recently enacted a law “aimed at countering Tehran’s alleged influence in Latin America” through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department. Continue reading
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From Iran Sanctions To US ‘Dirty Tricks’ By Dr. Ismail Salami
In what can be seen as a blatantly overt interference in Iran’s affairs, US President Barack Obama has recently enacted a law “aimed at countering Tehran’s alleged influence in Latin America” through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department. Continue reading
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Wired’s Most Dangerous: Russia’s cyber-security mogul behind Flame virus downfall hits top 15
“If all he did in the last year was intercede in America’s efforts to short-circuit Iran’s nuclear ambitions – definitively unmasking a cyber-weapon for the first time – Kaspersky would’ve earned himself a spot on our list of the most dangerous people in the world.” Continue reading
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Egypt in Light of the Iranian Revolution: The Restoration of a Dictatorship? By Araz Bagban
The new constitution submitted to referendum by Mohamed Morsi, the president of Egypt elected with the support of the Freedom and Justice party, i.e. the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in addition to its properties of attacking working-class achievements as well as women’s and minorities’ rights, is preparing the legal ground for… Continue reading
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Military Escalation, Dangerous Crossroads: Russia-US Confrontation in Syria? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
On December 14, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed a Pentagon order to deploy 400 US missile troops to Turkey. According to Washington, the security of Turkey, NATO’s heavyweight, is threatened. US military personnel will to be deployed to Turkey in the coming weeks to operate two US Patriot missile batteries. Continue reading
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International Law and the Iran Impasse by Asli Bâli
Israel, the United States and their principal Western partners all now seem agreed upon a spring 2013 make-or-break deadline by which Iran must accept a Western-backed deal or face an array of threatened military operations aiming to damage or destroy its nuclear facilities. In the meantime, a crippling international sanctions regime, reinforced by even more… Continue reading
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America’s Power Game: Iranian People Victims of US Economic Sanctions By Kourosh Ziabari
The reality is that if the United States and its European allies had compelling evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, they wouldn’t hesitate for a moment to launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and what troubles them is that Iran is not really seeking nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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Iran: When the Drones Backfire on America. Washington’s Troubled Dream? By Dr. Ismail Salami
What strikes fear into the heart of Washington is in fact the ever-increasing sway the Islamic Republic is gaining and that which can be used as a leverage to counter the influence of the United States and Israel in the region. In other words, Iran serves as an antidote to Washington’s venomous influence in the… Continue reading
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Iran: When the Drones Backfire on America. Washington’s Troubled Dream? By Dr. Ismail Salami
What strikes fear into the heart of Washington is in fact the ever-increasing sway the Islamic Republic is gaining and that which can be used as a leverage to counter the influence of the United States and Israel in the region. In other words, Iran serves as an antidote to Washington’s venomous influence in the… Continue reading
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Iran: Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud And IAEA Credulity By Gareth Porter
That Associated Press story displaying a graph alleged to be part of an Iranian computer simulation of a nuclear explosion — likely leaked by Israel with the intention of reinforcing the media narrative of covert Iranian work on nuclear weapons – raises serious questions about the International Atomic Energy Association’s (IAEA) claim that it has… Continue reading
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Video: Iran – Did IAEA Fudge the Numbers?
Gareth Porter: Recent IAEA alarmist report on Iran misstates enrichment numbers, putting Iran program closer to Israeli “red line” Continue reading
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The Reality Principle – Episode 3: "Iran: A Nation under Attack" with Ardeshir Ommani
Although most know Iran today as an international pariah, few pay any attention to the covert war being waged against the Islamic Republic of Iran every day. From crippling economic sanctions to the assassination of scientists to the sabotage of critical infrastructure, Iran is under constant attack by her enemies. Israel sees Iran as an… Continue reading
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The Reality Principle – Episode 3: “Iran: A Nation under Attack” with Ardeshir Ommani
Although most know Iran today as an international pariah, few pay any attention to the covert war being waged against the Islamic Republic of Iran every day. From crippling economic sanctions to the assassination of scientists to the sabotage of critical infrastructure, Iran is under constant attack by her enemies. Israel sees Iran as an… Continue reading
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West Continues Speculation on Iran Nuclear Work By Afsaneh Ahadi
One of the most common political tools, which has been always used by Western politicians is to aggrandize a security crisis anywhere in the world and repeat it in different ways. During recent years, efforts made by Iran to master nuclear technology have been used as an excuse by the Western officials in order to… Continue reading
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Iran vs the Empire: Fighting dollarization By Eric Walberg
The West’s attempts to destroy the Iranian economy through heightened sanctions—including most imports, oil exports and use of banks for trade operations—is having its affect. According to Johns Hopkins University Professor Steve Hanke, Iran is facing hyperinflation, with a monthly inflation rate of nearly 70% per month and its national currency, the rial, plummeting in… Continue reading
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A World in Which Truth is a Dying Species by GAITHER STEWART
Hidden away somewhere within the labyrinth of the Pentagon there must be a top secret euphemism department engaged in the invention of the Orwellian surrogate words that have crept surreptitiously into the American English vocabulary and from there translated into many other languages. In my mind I see a unit of studiously serious executives, coffee… Continue reading
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Fair Action Alert: PBS and Iran's "Nuclear Weapons"
In an October 22 discussion of the foreign policy presidential debate, the PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown stated that “Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been a particular flash point.” [But] as most people following this story should know, there is no intelligence that shows Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Continue reading
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