Friday, 20 June 2025 — Craig Murray
For 18 years, the Iranian nuclear programme has been one of the top 10 targeting objectives of the US intelligence services. In 2007 they first conducted a formal inter-agency review. It is done every year. This is not a minor process. A great deal of input is received from dozens of Washington stakeholders, led by the CIA.
Sunday, 22 June 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
❌The Yemeni army’s X account posted a message: “Yemen will officially enter the war. Keep your ships away from our territorial waters.” The message was accompanied by a cartoon of Netanyahu and Trump.
The situation in the Middle East is getting worse by the minute.
Sunday, 22 June 2024 — Geopolitical Economy
Donald Trump has carried out direct US air strikes on Iran, bombing what he said were three major “nuclear sites”.
“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan”, Trump boasted, in a post on his website Truth Social on 21 June.
Sunday, 22 June 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
⏱What is known at this hour:
🔴US Air Force B-2 bombers attacked nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan overnight.
🔴About 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles were also used.
🔴Trump said that US strikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure are a historic moment, after which Iran “must end the war.”
🔴The US President added that in Iran “there are still places to strike, we need a few minutes to hit all the targets.” Either peace comes, or Iran will face “a much more serious tragedy.”
🔴Netanyahu: US strikes on Iran were a “bold decision,” they will “change history.” No country in the world could have done what “the US did to Iranian nuclear facilities.”
🔴There was no irreversible damage to the nuclear facility in Fordow, Iran expected the attack, so it evacuated in advance, an adviser to the chairman of the Iranian parliament said.
🔴Iran does not intend to stop the development of the nuclear industry because of the US strikes, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said.
🔴Iran’s Foreign Ministry: Tehran reserves all possible options to protect its interests and sovereignty after the US strike on nuclear facilities.
🔴The attack will have long-term consequences. The US violated international law and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Foreign Minister Araghchi added.
🔴Iran has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after the attack on its nuclear facilities, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic said in a statement.
🔴About 30 Iranian missiles attacked Israeli sites in the early morning. There are reports of injuries.
🔴The IAEA has not recorded an increase in radiation levels outside Iran’s nuclear facilities after the US strikes.
🔖The Trump administration has notified Iran that the strikes on its nuclear facilities are a one-off act and not the start of a “war to change power,” the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a US official.
Friday, 20 June 2025 — MintPress News
“Iran doesn’t harm civilians, but only attempts to target military bases.”
“We try to portray them as an evil entity, but they are a powerful state. We attack their security targets, and they respond by striking our security targets.”
Friday, 20 June 2025 — MROnline
Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes are shuttling “support” to Iran: Weapons systems, air defenses, missiles, and so forth.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Climate and Capitalism
Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate
| “Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster, We’re actively moving in the wrong direction in a critical period of time that we would need to meet our most ambitious climate goals. Some reports, there’s a silver lining. I don’t think there really is one in this one.”—study co-author Zeke Hausfather |
At current emission levels, a 1.5°C global temperature increase will be unavoidable in a little more than three years, and 1.6°C or 1.7°C could be exceeded within nine years.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
In a formal letter to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, Iran’s nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, condemned the Israeli strike on the Arak heavy water reactor, calling it a blatant violation of international law.
Eslami cited breaches of the Geneva Conventions, the IAEA Statute, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He urged Grossi to break his silence: “You must condemn this Israeli aggression against our peaceful nuclear facilities.”
Warning of consequences, Eslami added, “We will take action to defend our rights and will seek legal recourse—particularly in light of Your Excellency’s inaction.”
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — The Cradle
Pakistan reveals that Israeli drone operators attempted to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities during the India-Pakistan crisis in May. This is a major reason why Islamabad is throwing its full weight behind Tehran in the Israel-Iran war.
Photo Credit: The CradleDespite Islamabad’s official denials of providing military or material support to Iran in its confrontation with Israel, recent developments suggest a dramatic shift in regional alignments. Today, Pakistan and China appear to be coordinating closely with Tehran, offering tangible strategic advantages as Tel Aviv escalates its hostilities.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — NetPol
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Thursday, 19 June 2025 — MintPress News
MintPress director Mnar Adley is joined by Professor Seyed Mohammed Marandi from Tehran who reveals the reality of Israel’s attacks on Iran, an alleged targeted airstrike against him, Western media propaganda, and the growing anti-colonial resistance movement across the Middle East.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Ali Larijani, Senior Political Advisor to Sayyed Khamenei, vowed, “We will subject IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to accountability after the war ends.”
His comments follow earlier remarks by the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, who sharply criticized IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, accusing him of fueling a Western-led campaign of aggression through “biased” nuclear oversight.
Baghaei asserted that Grossi’s reports were weaponized by the E3 and the US to justify an illegal act of war by a “genocidal, warmongering regime.”
Larijani also stated that “the sixth round of talks was supposed to take place, but Trump pulled a trick in coordination with Israel,” affirming that while Tehran does not seek war, the country is facing a critical moment that demands firmness and resilience.
He called for resistance against external aggression, stating, “We must resist, confront the aggressors, and punish them.”
3 June 2025 — Declassified UK
Motor industry tycoon Trevor Chinn (centre) is a pro-Israel advocate. (Photo: Fiona Hanson / Alamy)
Britain’s Foreign Office met privately with a pro-Israel lobbyist to discuss arms exports to Tel Aviv, documents obtained by Declassified reveal.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — The Tricontinental
Peter Mulindwa (Uganda), Untitled, 1981.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Every morning, I open the newspapers (now on apps rather than print) and read about atrocities taking place across the world. There is an inflation of pain, from the genocide in Gaza to the war in Sudan and the unreported chaotic violence in and around Myanmar. These conflicts seem interminable and might even confuse the casual observer who does not follow them closely.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — MintPress News
He likes to keep a low profile. But Sir Trevor Chinn is one of the most powerful men in British politics.
The retired businessman has donated millions to politicians, facilitated Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s rise to power, helped destroy the movement around Jeremy Corbyn, and, above all, has made sure that both major parties support Israel and its expansionist project in the Middle East.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Jonathan Cook
[First published by Middle East Eye]
Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of aggression against Iran as some kind of “defensive” move.
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran’s Nuclear Negotiation Team. Prof. Marandi discusses the US preparations to enter the war directly, and Iran’s preparations to fight the US. Trump will only accept Iran’s surrender, yet he does not appear to have the means to achieve this objective. What will happen if US strikes are ineffective and US military assets in the region are attacked? The only path forward now is reckless escalation.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 — Danny Haiphong
Israel’s strike on Iran has led to a massive retaliation, Operation True Promise 3, which now has Trump scrambling to war. Mohammad Marandi, Lowkey, and Ali Abunimah join the show for a break down of what’s happening to the US-backed colony and the consequences the coming collapse of Israel is having on the region and the world.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 —
A family in Gaza, mourning another loss
How Netanyahu’s War on Iran Provides Cover for Gaza’s Final Solution.
The sirens wail across Haifa and Tel Aviv as Iranian missiles arc through the sky, and suddenly the world discovers its capacity for horror again, CNN anchors breathlessly counting each projectile while their cameras capture the dust clouds rising from Israeli cities. But three hundred miles south, in the killing fields that Gaza has become, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s soldiers methodically execute Palestinians who approached their food distribution sites this morning, adding three hundred fresh corpses to the mountain of bodies that now numbers not in the tens of thousands as official counts claim, but in the hundreds of thousands, entire bloodlines erased from existence while the world debates the trajectory of Iranian missiles.
The New Dark Age 