Iran
The Especially Unpopular Iran War
According to analysis by Stephen Semler in a Friday Responsible Statecraft article, Americans’ opposition to the Iran War exceeds Americans’ previous polling-indicated opposition to other major United States wars of recent decades, from World War II through the Korean...
The Fourth Estate Has Betrayed America – With Guest Patrick Henningsen
Inflation Tsunami: Trump Wants $88 Billion for Iran War
US To Buy Iranian Oil – First Time In Decades!
Trump’s Attempt to End the Iran War Infuriates the Uniparty
Against the odds, the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the US and Iran appears to be holding, after threats and counter-threats. It may collapse, but it has survived a first round of talks between the two sides in Switzerland over the weekend. President Trump...
Who Caused The Threat to ‘Economic Catastrophe’?
The Iran Deal – Who’s The Most Unhappy Now?
Post-Iran War: The End of an Era, Not to Decline, but as a Trigger to Abrupt Change
Professor Michael Hudson, in a recent discussion, takes issue with those who speak today of the “decline of the US hegemon.” A decline implies something goes up and down, Hudson says, but it always recovers. “But there’s never been any such thing statistically as a...
Why Iran Signs the MOU: Realism Over Illusion
The announcement that United States and Iranian negotiators have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding to end the war raises an obvious and pressing question. Why would Tehran sign anything with a Trump administration? The biggest danger is not simply that the...
‘Peace Deal’ With Iran And Cage Match At White House: What A Time To Be Alive!
Israel Fails to Sabotage Islamabad Accord… At Least for Now
This is as Close as the US and Iran Will Get to Signing an MOU. Well, when news broke that Israel had bombed the southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday afternoon, the Iranians started gearing up for promised retaliation only to be dissuaded by a Donald Trump bribe. Iran...
Trump State Department Moves to Deport Trita Parsi
President Trump’s State Department has reportedly opened an investigation into Trita Parsi, an Iranian-Swedish international relations writer, political analyst, vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and critic of the administration’s war...
Trump Violates Humanitarian Law: the Bombing of a Water Facility in Iran
During what has been described as tit-for-tat attacks, on June 10 the US bombed the drinking water supply in the Bemani district of Sirik, Hormozgan province, Iran. The 500-cubic-meter tank and a 2,000-cubic-meter reservoir provided water for 20,000 Iranians....
Battle of the Missiles — The Apache Scam
A truly bizarre series of events off the coast of Iran today that in my opinion were entirely provoked, if not staged, by the US. It started with multiple news reports that a US Army Apache helicopter had been shot down in the Persian Gulf but the two pilots emerged...
Iran Takes its Chances with War
The US war with Iran has moved beyond its initial phase to an emerging new one — one in which Iran implicitly stakes its chances on the next phase being war. Most likely this will be in abbreviated episodes of limited war, but possessing nevertheless a potential to...
Iran Will Respond To Ceasefire Breaches Wherever Those Are
President Trump and his partner in crime Netanyahoo have tried to draw Iran into a ceasefire trap. It was hoped for that a bit by bit escalation, like Israeli bombing in Lebanon, would be left without a response by Iran. Iran however did not fall for that scheme. It...
Israel Crosses Iran’s Redline in a Mission to Prevent Trump From Signing a Peace Deal with Iran
Nine days after Iran warned the West, Israel in particular, that any further attacks on Beirut would result in Iran retaliating against Israel, Israel hit the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. The attack on Sunday afternoon sent plumes of smoke rising over the suburb, with...
Iran Needs Escalation To Avoid The Ceasefire Trap
A typical US tactic against a strategic target is to ‘boil the frog’ by slowly increasing the temperature of the water it is sitting it. The conflict in Ukraine is an good example for this. Hits against Russia, directed by the CIA, are escalated bit by bit while...
House Votes To End Iran War – Will Trump Ignore Congress?
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