What do Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Sankara have in common? The answer is simple: All three were intent on meeting with the leaders of the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei.
All three knew what it meant to liberate a people from colonialism; all three knew imperialism...
Forget Kaiser Wilhelm II’s blank check to Austria-Hungary to wage war on Serbia in 1914; forget Adolf Hitler invading the Soviet Union in 1941 and then declaring war on the United States just to complete his imbecility. President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize, on Israeli urging, the assassination of...
Talks are set to begin on April 12th in Oman between the United States and Iran about Iran’s nuclear program. The announcement was made as Benjamin Netanyahu left the White House after his second visit to DC in as many months...
Donald Trump posted to his social media site Truth Social on Monday evening that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” as he made an early departure from the G7 summit in Canada to “attend to many important matters,” according to the White House...
The 82nd Airborne Division has canceled a training exercise to keep the Division ready to deploy with just 18 hours of notification for what it calls “forcible entry parachute assaults”...
As bad as they are on other foreign policy issues, the Biden-Harris victory in the November election is still a cause for optimism in U.S.-Iranian relations, given what we have seen under Trump. At a minimum, it brings (1) hope that the U.S. will come back into the Joint...
On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb attacks, the world stands in grave danger of nuclear warfare again breaking out—particularly in light of the pattern of Israeli aggression in the Middle East and the perpetuation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
In the U.S, all mechanisms of diplomacy...
Nineteen years ago—in February 2007, during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress, including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” (to the tune of Beach Boys song “Barbara Ann”) recitation by Senator John McCain—I wrote an article entitled “An Appeal to...
In the past couple of days, Donald Trump has been speaking about the possibility of the United States formally entering the Israeli war against Iran. And as of this evening, the U.S. has begun bombing Iran. But the reality is the United States has been at war with Iran...
The Islamic State has taken credit for an attack that killed 84 people and left dozens wounded in Kerman, in southern Iran. The bombing was significant because it was on the anniversary of the assassination by the United States of Qasem Soleimani, who was the commander of the Iranian Quds force 1998 until he was killed on January 3rd, 2020 by a U.S. drone strike under the orders of Donald Trump. At the time, Soleimani was on his way to meet with the Prime Minister of Iraq and in fact he was killed in Iraq, near Baghdad International Airport...
