Iran carried out a strike over the weekend of April 13 and 14 in retaliation for the Israeli bombing on April 1 of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. Embassies are the sovereign territory of the country represented, effectively making it an Israeli attack on Iran...
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...
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...
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 U.S./Israeli war on Iran could easily spark a greater regional conflict if it continues. Donald Trump at first said Tehran would be taken in 3-4 days, then a day later claimed the war would last no more than 4-5 weeks and threatened that the U.S. has enough weapons to fight “forever"...
Citizens of West Asia—and the world—are waiting with baited breath for a widely anticipated backlash to Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran from Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The scale and form of that counterattack are a matter of intense speculation. So too is how—and whether—the Zionist...
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...
It is Wednesday, March 18, as I write: Coming up to three weeks into what U.S. President Donald Trump was confident—and said so—would be a four-day war that would be over by the Jewish festival of Purim on March 3.
Well, the war did not end on March 3 and...
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...
In the last few months, the western media has been reporting on large scale protests sweeping Iran against the hijab in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amimi. The protests were described by some journalists as a revolution against the Islamic Republic, and have been highlighted as a movement led by young women. Is this true? Is there a revolution? How much of this is part of a major media disinformation campaign? We are joined by Mazda Majidi, Iranian author, journalist, and anti-war activist who has recently returned from Iran.
