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Is Tehran Winning the Middle East?
In the midst of Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in a sense, has lasted since the pro-American Shah of Iran...
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Is Israel’s plan to draw the US into a war with Iran?
The latest Israeli heightening of violence in an already violent region presents the Biden administration with one of its biggest challenges yet in keeping the United States out of a new Middle East...
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For the second time this year, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with his Georgian counterpart on March 24. The meeting, held in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan, saw both leaders reaffirming...
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Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, Baits Iran Into His...
Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on the thinly populated Negev Desert (where it was mainly Palestinian Bedouin...
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Is Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from...
The Middle East is bracing for the possibility of regional war after Iran responded to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus with a major drone and missile attack Saturday. The attack...
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Rush to Battle Stations After Iran Attack
Members of Congress who have said little to nothing about the over 33,000 Palestinians dead amid Israeli bombs and artillery — two-thirds deemed innocent civilians — in retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas...
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Israel and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S....
The Israeli bombing of an Iranian consular office in Damascus on April 1 was the first salvo in a new phase of a regional conflict between the two countries. The attack, which killed several senior...
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Calls for De-Escalation Mount as Israel Plans to ‘Exact a Price From Iran’
Since Iran on Saturday sent hundreds of drones and missiles—which were mostly shot down—toward Israel to retaliate for an Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria, anti-war voices around the...
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Iran Doesn’t Want Larger War with Israel But is Ready For It
What is Iran’s military and political strategy now that it has struck back against Israel’s illegal bombing of its embassy, and with another cycle of escalation looming? Israel’s strikes killed over a...
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Pivot to Iran? Decoding April 1st
[Prefatory Note: This is a revised text of an opinion piece published in Turkish, a contribution invited by Semin Gumusel on April 14, 2024; developments arising from the convergent incidents on April...
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The Coming Israeli Attack On Iran (Plus: ‘Tehran Found Itself Backed Into A...
There is little doubt that Israel will respond to Iran’s launch of three hundred and twenty drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles on its territory with a major attack on Iran, and this for...
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Under UN Charter, Iran’s Attack Was a Legal Response to Israel’s Illegal Attack
On April 1, Israel mounted an unprovoked military attack on a building that was part of the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing seven of Iran’s senior military advisers and five...
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Iranian President Dead in Crash: Now Comes the Night of Long Knives
Iran’s Mehr News Service reported Monday morning Tehran time that President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died Sunday in a helicopter crash in a remote area of Iran. They...
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Iran Braces for Uncertainty After President Raisi’s Death
When Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter went missing in the mountains on May 19, authorities initially responded by urging the public not to worry. In a country accustomed to being on razor’s...
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Iran’s Hijab Law and Electoral Scrutiny
Amidst the sham or state-orchestrated presidential election in Iran, a grim reality unfolds. Women are being violently arrested by the Morality Police for refusing to comply with mandatory hijab rules...
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The Moderate Wins in Iran. So What Does It Mean for the Us?
Political moderation has won a victory in Iran. Cardiac surgeon and former health minister Masoud Pezeshkian defeated stalwart conservative Saeed Jalili in a presidential runoff election, by a margin...
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The Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Will Only Embolden Resistance
At approximately 2 a.m. local time, Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran in an apparent Israeli strike. It is not yet known what precise weapons were used, but Iran’s...
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Mouin Rabbani: The Aftermath Of Israeli Assasinations In The Middle East
On 30 July Israel bombed the Lebanese capital, Beirut. It proclaimed the purpose of the attack was to kill Fuad Shukur, one of the most senior members of Hizballah’s military council. The attack...
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Jeremy Scahill on New Head of Hamas, Questions About Haniyeh Assassination &...
Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as successor to former senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warmly...
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The Criminal Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran
What does Hamas chief Haniyeh’s assassination in Iran mean for the wider conflict? It appears that none of the countries directly involved in the conflict with Israel–Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen–seek a...
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The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns
An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates...
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Debunking Myths: The Real Iran Beyond U.S. and Israeli Narratives
Please tell Americans, that Iranians are kind and hospitable. Come and visit us. You are most welcome here.” This was a common refrain encountered in a recent trip to Iran. At present the US military...
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Impact on Strategic Deterrence of Iran’s Retaliation Against Israeli Attacks...
In this interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Scott Ritter discusses an initial assessment of Iran’s recent retaliation for months of escalating war crimes committed by the Israeli regime against...
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Israel Has Provoked Iran to Enter War: An Interview with Lebanon Expert...
After nearly a year since the Hamas-led terror attack on southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of close to 1200 people (roughly 800 civilians and nearly 400 security forces though some Israeli...
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Norman Finkelstein & Mouin Rabbani React to Lebanon Attack, Iran Ietaliation...
Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani in discussion with India and Global left on the current situation involving Israel, Lebanon and Iran.
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Biden Officials Say Ceasefire Talks Are Suspended as Harris Names Iran Top Enemy
Biden officials have reportedly admitted that ceasefire negotiations amid Israel’s war on Lebanon and genocide in Gaza have been suspended, despite public insistence by high-powered figures within the...
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Israel ‘Desperately Wants’ a U.S.-Iran War
Israel is now waging war across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and now Iran. Following Iran’s missile strike on Israeli military targets, Israel vowed to retaliate, with the US...
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What Can Iran & Palestine Expect from the US Presidential Elections?
[Prefatory Note: The following interview is in responses to questions addressed.to me by Kayhan New Agency in Iran. It is focused on an interpretation of how the forthcoming American elections are...
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Israel’s Limited Strikes On Iran Show The Enormous Constraints Faced By...
The limited strikes on Iran carried out by Israeli fighter-jets early on Saturday morning Tehran time above all demonstrated the constraints under which even this extremist Israeli government has to...
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How the Israeli Attack on Iran Could Seed a New World War
If you ask the average citizen of any country whether their leaders should start wars, almost all would give a resounding “No.” The public, overall, opposes war, but tolerates leaders who prioritize...
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