“Depending on who you ask, the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan was either a smashing success that severely crippled Tehran’s nuclear programme, or a flashy show whose results were less than advertised … In the grand scheme of...
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US/Israel Versus Iran – Round One
by William Schryver | Jul 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
My summary assessment of the missile war over Israel during the 12-day-long first act of the ongoing war between Israel et alia and Iran et alia: The first Iranian counterstrike against Israel (14 June) began with a few hundred drones and relatively...
What Trump Should Tell Netanyahu
by Ron Paul | Jul 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
A few weeks ago I urged President Trump to make a deal with Iran that would satisfy his stated goal of no nuclear weapons production and would allow Iran to continue its lawful pursuit of civilian nuclear energy. The deal on the table, as described by the Iranian...
CIA: Our Trump-Russiagate Claims Were Corrupt, Our Claims On Iran Are …
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
The CIA has published a "tradecraft review" of the 2016 "Intelligence Community Assessment" which had claimed that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. The review found what had been obvious to anyone. The 2016 assessment had not followed the...
Strategic Ambiguity
by RPI Staff | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump calls himself a peacemaker. His actions, however, betray his words. When it comes to the Middle East, he is an obvious war president. This begs the question: Does he have a coherent Middle East strategy beyond providing for Israel’s security interests?...
Spying on Iran: How MI6 infiltrated the IAEA
by Kit Klarenberg | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
Leaked confidential files indicate the International Atomic Energy Agency was infiltrated by a veteran British spy who has claimed credit for sanctions on Iran. The documents lend weight to the Islamic Republic’s accusation that the nuclear watchdog secretly colluded...
Beyond the Bombs: Who Really Won the 12-Day War Between Israel and Iran?
by Kit Klarenberg | Jul 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
On June 13, 2025, Tel Aviv launched what many international observers and Iranian officials have described as an unprovoked military strike on Iran. Israeli jets bombed military and nuclear sites, while Mossad-run sleeper cells carried out sabotage missions against...
This Is Israel’s War – Not Our War
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jul 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump, to his credit, demanded a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Both countries agreed to it. Then, the president became very angry with Israel because, as he said, “As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of...
What Means ‘Winning’?
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
At one level, Iran plainly “won.” Trump had wanted to be regaled with a reality-TV style, splendid “Victory.” Sunday’s attack on the three nuclear sites indeed was loudly proclaimed by Trump and Hegseth as such – having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment...
Trump Rolls Over for a New War
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
It is generally believed that American voters elected Donald Trump president at least in part due to their embracing his lies that he was a peacemaker who would not involve the United States in the pointless wars that have proliferated since 9/11. Trump’s predecessor...
The United States Cannot Defeat Iran
by William Schryver | Jun 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
How soon people have forgotten that, earlier this year, the US dispatched two carrier strike groups and a half-dozen B-2s (and other USAF assets) to disarm the Yemeni and open the selectively blockaded Red Sea. They failed. Abysmally. For the second time! First of...
The War on Iran is not Over
by Larry C. Johnson | Jun 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
I don’t know why Iran agreed to the ceasefire, but it did. Iranian leaders, in my opinion, are frighteningly naive. Some apparently believe that they can achieve a legitimate negotiated deal with Donald Trump. I suggest the Ayatollah and IRGC commanders read Donald...
After Trump’s Bombs, Is Peace With Iran Possible?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 25, 2025 | The Liberty Report
Middle East in Crisis After US Bombing of Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East crisis following the US attack on Iran’s three key...
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran(q)
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump says it was necessary for him to order US pilots to bomb Iran to prevent that nation’s government from building a nuclear bomb. Wait a minute. Something is coming to me. Just give me a moment. It’s coming into my mind. Oh, yes, I remember: “WMDs! WMDs,...
Will The Ceasefire Hold?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 24, 2025 | The Liberty Report
The key nuclear allegation that started the war was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
The IAEA Board’s “Non-Compliance” Resolution on 12 June 2025 was the planned precursor for Israel’s “bolt from the blue” strike on Iran the next day. Israelis say the plan to go to war with Iran was grounded in “the opportunity” to strike, and not the intelligence...
Iran vs the US and Israel — Kabuki Theater on Steroids
by Larry C. Johnson | Jun 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Any moment now I am expecting John Cleese (a veteran of Monty Python) to jump out of the bushes and announce the creation of the Ministry of Silly Wars, with Donald Trump as the deranged leader. For you youngsters out there, Monty Python’s skit, The Ministry of Silly...
Trump’s War
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 23, 2025 | The Liberty Report
Trump Takes America to War
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
There is a somewhat troublesome backstory to President Donald Trump’s glorification of how Saturday’s US forces attack on three Iranian nuclear sites that “completely obliterated” their targets was carried out without any declaration of war against a country that has...
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