dapd An oil field in Iran’s Khuzestan province (2007 photo). link to article http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,811125,00.html The EU has banned oil imports from Iran to try and pressure the regime into making concessions over its controversial nuclear program. But even though the Iranian economy is suffering, Tehran is refusing to give ground. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary Guards are profiting [...]
Yemeni protestors chant slogans during the fifth day of a five-day march from Yemen‘s impoverished Red Sea city of Hudaydah to Sanaa demanding the prosecution of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Sunday’s decision came as a surprise to many in Yemen, who believed that [...]
Iran’s Navy commander Habibollah Sayyari (C) points while standing on a naval ship during Velayat-90 war game on Sea of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran Jan. 1, 2012. (Reuters/Fars News/Hamed Jafarnejad) TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran announced plans on Friday to hold new naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz next month, [...]
Iran‘s Navy Commander Habibullah Sayari holds a news conference in Tehran before the start of a 10-day war game in the Strait of Hormuz [Reuters] Sayari points at a map of the region where Iranian submarines, surface-to-sea missile systems, missile-launching vessels, torpedoes and drones will be tested [Reuters] Military personnel place a flag on a [...]
Secret Wars and the Rule of Law by Tim Kelly, December 21, 2011 The president of the United States now wages secret wars virtually independent of Congress and in direct violation of the United States Constitution. Earlier this month, the White House issued several findings authorizing U.S. intelligence services to carry [...]
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | December 9, 2011 Please call your representative today at 877-429-0678 and ask her or him to vote “no” on the Iran Threat Reduction Act, H.R. 1905. Enter your ZIP code to get talking points that reflect whether your member has publicly supported this bill. IN THIS ISSUE Iran recovers U.S. spy [...]
Downed US Drone in Iran Reveals Broader Covert War President Barack Obama promised that “No options off the table means I’m considering all options.” by John Glaser, December 08, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Iran’s recovery of a downed U.S. [...]
Is Iran Preparing to Strike Back By Michael Collins - Posted on 06 December 2011 By Brian M. Downing These attacks are almost certainly directed by Israeli, Saudi, and US intelligence services. They may also be acts of war. “This business will get out of control.” – The Hunt for Red October In the last few years [...]
Congress Hears Calls to Escalate Covert War Against Iran Former Officials Urge US to Start Killing People by Jason Ditz, October 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a hearing that was vaguely related to the alleged DC assassination plot, a number of former officials and general war enthusiasts discussed ways to further [...]
The FBI Goes Rogue On Iran Back on 1 September 2011 I posted a piece titled America‘s FBI Goes Rogue. The gist of that piece was that the FBI’s Counter Terrorist Unit has transformed itself into an instigator of crime. The Agency’s modus operandi (MO) here reminds one of those carnivorous plants that have [...]
Just like the invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq the US propaganda machine swings into action by creating a basic falsehood and then converting the faith required to believe that lie into a basic belief in the need to invade or in the newer terminology to take “pre-emptive action”. By this method blatant atrocities and murder [...]
FBI Account of “Terror Plot” Suggests Sting Operation by Gareth Porter + Pepe Escobar: Iranian plot was an inside job Posted on October 14, 2011 by dandelionsalad Updated: Oct. 15, 2011 added a video interview with Gareth Porter by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS Oct. 13, 2011 WASHINGTON, Oct 13, 2011 (IPS) – While the administration [...]
Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot by Ray McGovern, October 14, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, in his accustomed role as unofficial surrogate CIA spokesman, has thrown light on how the CIA under its new director, David Petraeus, helped craft the screenplay for this week’s White House spy feature: [...]
Washington is looking to increase sanctions on Iran as a result of the plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador [EPA] The fast and furious plot to occupy Iran Tehran would have to be terminally foolish to try to snuff out an ambassador on US soil, author says. Pepe Escobar Last Modified: 12 Oct 2011 17:16 [...]
Iran‘s plot — and a U.S. double-standard? Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Tuesday that federal authorities had foiled a plot backed by the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States on American soil. Two men, one of whom is apparently a member of a special operations unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, [...]
TEHRAN—Iran’s elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has transferred lethal new munitions to its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, according to senior U.S. officials, in a bid to accelerate the U.S. withdrawals from these countries. The Revolutionary Guard has smuggled rocket-assisted exploding projectiles to its militia allies in Iraq, weapons [...]
U.S. military sees Iran behind rising troop deaths in Iraq Text Size Print E-mail Reprints By Tim Craig and Ed O’Keefe, Published: June 30 BAGHDAD — Three U.S. soldiers were killed this week in a rocket attack at a U.S. base near the Iranian border, the military said Thursday, bringing June’s death toll to 15 and marking the bloodiest [...]
Iran‘s president admits rift with country’s senior Islamic figures Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces he is on ‘opposite side’ to those who accuse him of revolutionary deviancy Share140 Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 June 2011 17.54 BST Article history Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has sought to play down talk of a power tussle with Ayatollah [...]
