Iran
In 1988, a US Navy warship shot down an Iranian passenger...
by Brad Lendon
January 10, 2020
Two days before a Ukrainian passenger plane went down over Tehran in the fog of battle this week, Iranian President...
Democrats try to stop the drive to War
House Passes War Powers Challenge to Attack on Iran
Posted on January 9, 2020
In a vote heavily split along party lines, the House of Representatives...
The Iran Plans
Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
By Seymour M. Hersh
April 9, 2006
The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy...
How the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general rekindled Kim...
by Jesse Johnson
Jan.7, 2020
With the order to kill a top Iranian general last week, U.S. President Donald Trump may have rekindled Kim Jong Un’s...
China and Iran: a relationship built on trade, weapons and oil
China and Iran: a relationship built on trade, weapons and oil
Beijing supplied military hardware to Tehran in the Iran-Iraq war and has been among...
Trump bides his time, but the preparations for war against Iran...
By Bill Van Auken and David North
9 January 2020
The speech delivered Wednesday by US President Donald Trump in the wake of Iran’s firing of...
Top IRGC General: Strikes on US Forces in Iraq Just Beginning...
by Tim Korso
Jan.9, 2020
Iran launched a missile strike on US positions in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of its IRGC General Qasem Soleimani....
Trump Assassinated the Leading General Who Fought Against ISIS
By Eric Zuesse
originally posted at The Saker
Even some mainstream U.S. ‘news’-media (but none that are Republican) acknowledge the fact that Qasem Soleimani was among...
Key Iraq Cleric Sadr Says Militias Should Stand Down
Says militias should avoid military action, refrain from extreme rhetoric
January 8, 2020
Influential Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, head of the largest bloc in...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Out Trump’s Lies on Iran
January 09, 2020
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
President Donald Trump brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran by ordering the...