Demonized Iran – A Tale Told By An Idiot
The current failing effort to make Iran out to be a major threat to world peace starts the clock at 1979 in its propaganda effort to justify U.S. aggression against…
The current failing effort to make Iran out to be a major threat to world peace starts the clock at 1979 in its propaganda effort to justify U.S. aggression against…
If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through…
After the Second World War (1945), America, in order to bring the entire world under its imperialist-capitalist grip, used extremely inhuman methods through its heavily funded media to distort and…
It does not matter to imperialism whether or not Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms. Imperialism always uses arms, actively or passively, directly or indirectly, through mercenaries or proxies. In…
Why Depth Is Only Acknowledged When Bombs Fail — And Why Arab Societies and Palestinians Remain Denied It Since late February 2026, sustained U.S.–Israeli strikes have targeted Iranian civilian infrastructure, leadership, and military…
“Every century has its Abou Dharr. Islam is waiting for its own.” Ali Shariati, Islam and the Social Question, 1972 “The wretched of the earth no longer wait. They act.”…
Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian has released an open letter, addressing the American people, calling on them to question the motives of the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran. Below is the…
Seventy years of crisis in Iran did not begin with ideology, nuclear ambitions, or regional rivalries. They began with a single, deliberate rupture that the world has spent decades minimizing…
When it comes to asylum seekers, the Australian political machine has prided itself on using cruelty and a purposely obtuse understanding of international law. Bolted sovereignty has been elevated over…
I want the Mullah regime gone, and democracy established in Iran. The question is how? This exact question yields me some legitimacy in questioning contradictory dualities of the pro-Shah Iranian…
Tehran (QNN)- At least 555 people have been killed in Iran in the US-Israeli assault on the country, and 31 others have been killed in Lebanon in Israeli strikes as…
On 28 February 2026, a single strike altered the emotional and geopolitical landscape of the East Asia. Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran for more than three decades, was assassinated…
Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a…
The latest joint military assault by the United States and Israel on Iran marks a decisive rupture in an already volatile region. What was once a landscape of uneasy deterrence…
It seems clear that Israeli proponents of conflict in the Middle East, as well as supporters in the US media and politics, are determined to take America to war with…
The United States is engaged in a high-stakes, “maximum pressure” strategy against Iran, characterized by intense military manoeuvring and last-ditch negotiations to prevent a full-scale war. The administration has signalled…
The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of world affairs and megalomania, seem set to push the U.S. into yet…
Veterans For Peace is putting up billboards outside military bases with the message, "Refuse Illegal Orders." A social media campaign is spreading the same message, "Refuse Illegal Orders." The Trump administration has failed in its persistent efforts to prosecute…
Iran and the United States are engaged in a high-stakes phase of simultaneous diplomacy and military posturing. Both sides are negotiating to avoid conflict while preparing for its possibility. Even…
After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier…
The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of…
The upcoming second round of high-stakes talks between Iran and the USA in Geneva (mid-February 2026) aims to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for significant sanctions relief, potentially averting…
The Middle East, a region of profound historical depth and strategic significance, remains a geopolitical tinderbox characterized by intricate alliances, entrenched rivalries, and unresolved conflicts. While active hostilities are often…
History occasionally presents moments when the truth about a conflict is stated plainly enough that it becomes impossible to ignore. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s February 7 address in Doha, Qatar (transcript here) should…
The Iran-US nuclear negotiations have completed Round one in Muscat, Oman. Despite US scepticism and prior demands for a broader agenda, the Trump administration succumbed to Iran’s insistence on a…
Iran’s long civilizational history, deeply rooted in the Persian Empire’s tradition of “orchestrating plurality” and managing diverse satrapies, provides a historical basis for pluralism. Iran is a “mosaic” of ethnicities…
The fact that the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appeared three times recently in open and public meetings—chatting with ordinary Iranians—has sent a shocking message to…
Venezuela, under threat following the attacks of January 3, and in perspective alongside the historical mirror that is Iran, allows us to study the models of classic oil nationalism and…
Propaganda as a preparation for invasion Even those waging outright wars of aggression are frequently at pains to justify their actions with falsehoods and distortions. This helps to prevent others…
An armada is moving toward the Middle East, and its announced target is Iran—the Persian land now defying imperialism. U.S. President Donald Trump, as a CNN report said on January…
The United States and Israel insist that Iran is targeted because of nuclear proliferation, regional “destabilization,” or ideological extremism. None of these explanations withstand scrutiny. Iran is targeted for a…
By January 2026, mounting U.S. military forces near Iran—including aircraft carriers, bombers, and strike groups—have sharpened debate in Washington over the prospect of war with Tehran.¹ Yet, a broad range…
I was in Tehran on the nights of January 8 and 9, 2026. What I witnessed was not a peaceful protest, but a real war unfolding on the streets of…
Israel’s longstanding campaign to lure Washington into war with Iran seems to have fizzled once again—for now, anyway. But in their attempt to invent a casus belli, their spy agencies…
With the Abraham Lincoln destroyer entering Middle East waters, everyone is gearing up for another US–Israeli war on Iran—the second in less than eight months. Anxiety is gripping the region…
I was recently honored to appear in a news segment, "Trump Beats Hasty Retreat After Iran Counter-Revolution Attempts Fail." for Iran's Press TV, interviewed by my friend Ramin Mazaheri (whose…
Every single moving mouth and face I see in the media seems to be obligated to stress the barbarity and illegitimacy of the Maduro government to establish some acceptable moral…
The West is very proud of its eyesight. Satellites blink. Algorithms scrape. Journalists retweet. Intelligence agencies inhale metadata like oxygen. We are assured—ritually — that nothing escapes the gaze.And yet,…
Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with his inseparable friend Haso) of countless jokes that…
“Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran.”It is difficult to imagine a sentence that more perfectly distills the arrested adolescence of American neoconservatism. Equal parts locker-room bravado…
US President Donald Trump’s option of “seriously” considering strikes against Iran does not appear to be as easy a war-move as he probably thought or as his aggression against Venezuela…
Over the past several days, the situation in Iran has steadily deteriorated due to continuous mass protests. Long-standing sanctions imposed by the United States have severely weakened Iran’s economy. The…
The specter of another US-led conflict, this time targeting Iran, casts a long and ominous shadow over South Asia. History offers a grim lesson: the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya,…
“Trump Is Under Netanyahu’s Thumb”: Tucker Carlson, Max Blumenthal, Jeffrey Sachs Warn That Powerful Pro-Israel Lobbies Are Steering the U.S. Toward Escalation and War with Iran. “IsraelGate” and the Threat…
Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite that has failed to meet their material needs and has…
Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What…
In the circumstances Iran is facing these days, concern for the destruction and loss of national, urban, and architectural heritage may not weigh heavily on minds already burdened by anxiety…
When dialogue reaches a dead end, politics rarely stays calm. Narratives harden, positions freeze, small incidents acquire larger meanings, and escalation begins to feel less like an accident and more…
The United States, along with its regional proxy Israel and the European Troika, tries to destabilize Iran to rip the country apart. Failing to achieve this purpose during the 12-day…
If Iran falls, will the U.S. move against its real challengers, the China & Russia, and who gets caught in between?. In the evolving landscape of global power, one reality…
As of January 2026, Iran is confronting one of the gravest crises since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. A sharp collapse of the national currency, soaring inflation, declining oil revenues, and…
The claim that Iran is witnessing a decisive, popular revolt driven purely by internal discontent must be treated with caution, if not outright scepticism. This is not to deny that…
Normally when someone in a high position extends support for protesting people, the tendency is to welcome this. However it is difficult to extend this welcome to the strong support…
1. Introduction and Statement of the Problem The geopolitics of the Middle East has long been shaped by the region’s abundant hydrocarbon resources. While oil has traditionally dominated both economic…
“Iran could soon be capable of targeting U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.” — Benjamin Netanyahu (Mar-a-Lago, Florida, USA – 29 December 2025) Former CIA, U.S. Military, Strategic Experts and Journalists…
After the Trump Regime Hijacks a Venezuelan Vessel, Iran hits back by Confiscating an Oil Tanker, the Phoenix, under Cook Islands Flag By any sober reading of recent events, the…
19 June marked the seventh day of Israeli strikes against Iran, with developments appearing to diverge from White House expectations. Following targeted attacks on senior military commanders and nuclear scientists,…
In the shadow of rising tensions between Iran and Israel, with missile strikes and assassinations threatening to reshape the Middle East, it is easy to paint Iran as a theocratic…
Israel’s war on Iran is escalating fast. Within six days, Israeli airstrikes killed top Iranian military commanders and destroyed several surface-level civilian installations. But one key target remains untouched: Iran’s…
We became accustomed for a while to the mutual bombardment of Iran and Israel for the first a couple of days. Then Israel started declaring that it had achieved its…
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