Let’s hope Biden has learned another history lesson: that the United States should stop invading and attacking other countries. At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that ...
It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June ...
For a president who promised a new era of American diplomacy, this has been a dreadful start. President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few ...
Originally published in Jacobin Magazine Just as talks between the United States and Iran were taking place last week in Vienna, a cyberattack was carried out on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Reports are that the Mossad, ...
Biden’s response to the far-right uproar against Malley will be a test of his fortitude in standing up to the hawks and charting a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. President Biden’s commitment ...
‘US and Israeli efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program “have now morphed into Trump & Netanyahu sabotaging the next US President’ Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation ...
Donald Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending the wars he inherited. (Jacobin) On June ...
Cruz’ call for an investigation into Twitter is the latest in a month of political turmoil for the company. Sen. Ted Cruz, R–Texas, formally asked the federal government to investigate Twitter on Friday. Cruz alleged ...
The first oil tanker that came from Iran’s Bandar Abbas port into the Caribbean is called Fortune. The tanker entered Venezuelan waters on May 24 and was then escorted by the Venezuelan Navy and Air Force ...
Why the Bouficha Appeal stands for the aspirations of people who want an end to militarized violence on earth. On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text ...
The coronavirus may have encouraged a break in usual diplomatic conflicts across the globe, but the US has maintained tension with Iran in the Persian Gulf. ‘Shoot Down and Destroy’ The coronavirus may have encouraged ...
The US State Department is turning once again to Iranian civilians to obtain information from within the state. The US State Department is turning once again to Iranian civilians to obtain information from within the ...
“One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries.” Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing ...
US Sanctions, according to Human Rights Watch, have not only been devastating to Iranian civilians, but they have also crippled the country’s ability to effectively deal with the coronavirus. (By: Ariel Gold & Medea Benjamin, ...
As foreign countries battle for their vested interests, innocent Syrians will continue to suffer. Russia and Turkey have fueled war crimes in Syria, as an independent report from the United Nations (U.N.), -founded commission recently ...
Some 2,500 US troops have arrived at their new home for the foreseeable future, the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amid rising tensions with Iran, the United States ...
“Without any recourse to international help or humanitarian aid it is unclear how Iran will resist the epidemic, nevermind prevent its spread to neighboring countries.” It all began Tuesday when Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Iraj ...
“I don’t know really if the target of the sanctions are the politicians or our patients. We are dealing with cancer here and cancer doesn’t stop, so we cannot stop.” The economic sanctions that the ...
Attendees at the conference discussed the Coronavirus outbreak, Libya, the Iran nuclear deal, and other topics. On February 16, the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2020 held in the Germany city of Munich wrapped up ...
A stronger, more committed and more determined global peace movement could tame the U.S. war machine. February 15 marked the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive ...
“It was very lengthy screening with no ability to leave. So whether you want to call that detention or something else is up to you. But the core fact of the matter remains. This seemed ...
“In the second of a three-part series, Agha Hussein investigates Russia’s financial motivation for teaming up with Israel and wealthy Gulf Arab states to curb Iran’s influence in post-war Syria.” (By: Agha Hussain, Mintpress News) ...
An escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen in slowing a Houthi advance on al-Qaeda-held territory reports Ahmed Abdulkareem. MARIB, YEMEN (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) An escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes in ...
“A war in the region now threatens its entire oil and shipping infrastructure, and can also take down the entire global economy in its wake.” With the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan ...
In the first of a three-part series, Agha Hussein investigates efforts by wealthy Gulf Arab countries to ply post-war Syria away from Iran by investing heavily in its post-war reconstruction. (By: Agha Hussain, Mintpress News) ...
Although the risk of full-scale war with Iran has significantly diminished, there are several other tools Iran could use against the U.S. If Iran has come to play second fiddle to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...
The three sites chosen for the news bases, Erbin, Sulimania and Halabja are all extremely close to Iran, with Halabja just eight miles from its border. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) Less than a week ...
In contrast to initial reports dismissing injuries among American service members, 34 American troops suffered traumatic brain injuries from Iranian airstrikes on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq earlier this month. On January 8 Iran ...
Iran is threatening to be only the second country – North Korea being the first – to withdraw from the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. On Monday, January 20, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that they ...
A week after Iranian strikes on U.S. military in Iraq, Ayatollah Khamenei is expected to focus his weekly Friday address on Iran’s great victory and the loss of U.S. life endured in the Iranian attack. ...
![U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo joins President Donald J. Trump for a working lunch with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/trump-bolton-pompeo-288x180.jpg "Pentagon Admits No Evidence Iran Planned To Attack US, Despite Trump Saying The Opposite 34")
“The president didn’t cite a specific piece of evidence. What he said was he believed. I didn’t see one, with regard to four embassies.” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said over the weekend on CBS’ ...
Besides being of some symbolic and political significance, the resolution does not have any legal value and is non-binding. (Peoples Dispatch) The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Thursday, January 9, to restrict ...
Several intelligence agencies believe that Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner as it was attacking American military bases in retaliation for the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Canadians Blame Iran Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said ...
“We may be in the midst of a national security crisis, but that is not stopping the administration from rolling back climate change regulations.” While the majority of media attention focused on the U.S.’ escalating ...
“All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military ...
“Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast. Under construction are many hypersonic missiles. The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it.” Trump ...
Only hours after Iran laid the slain body of General Qassem Soleimani, Commander in Chief of Iran’s elite Quds Units, Tehran military command ordered the launch of a barrage of ballistic missiles against all U.S. ...
Iran launched over a dozen missiles at two American bases, Asad and Erbil, in Iraq early Wednesday, according to Iranian official news media and United States officials. The military strike marks the beginning of what ...
However Iran responds to the recent assassination of General Soleimani, Iranian officials are correct that U.S. influence in the region has deteriorated and will deteriorate further. Major General Hossein Salami, the chief of the Islamic ...
Less than two weeks prior to the U.S.’ controversial killing of Iranian General Qassim Suleimani, Iran joined Russia and China for four days of joint naval exercises. In the wake of the assassination of Iranian ...
“Strategically …we are pouring gasoline on a smoldering fire with no structure or strategy for where we’re going to take this thing next.” To the risk of contradicting U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, Americans are ...
“Like ISIS, Like Hitler, Like Genghis! They all hate cultures. Trump is a terrorist in a suit.” (By MEMO) Iran condemned Donald Trump on Sunday as a “terrorist in a suit” after the US president ...
Only two days after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the killing of both General Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s Commander in Chief of the elite Quds Force and Abu Mahdi Al Mohandis, deputy chief of the Popular ...
Is Trump Attacking Iran To Distract From New Evidence In Impeachment Trial? The Trump administration’s assassination of Iran’s top general came only hours after the release of Office of Management and Budget emails that directly ...
Endless war is always good for one thing – defense industry profits. Defense stocks soared on Friday after the Ayatollah vowed revenge for the Trump administration’s assassination of Iran’s most powerful general late Thursday, as ...
The recent attack on Kata’ib Hezbollah has actually worked in favor of Iran, turning Iraqi public opinion and Iraqi leaders more solidly against the U.S. military presence. It’s a new year, and the U.S. has found a ...
Today Iran’s “martyrs” are being mourned by millions across the Islamic world – the last men to have fallen to what is being framed as a holy struggle between western imperialism and free men. If ...
“The US pulled out of the Iran deal, implemented illegal sanctions (including on medicine), assassinated a top Iranian military figure who was on the front line fighting ISIS, and I guarantee you the media is ...
Angry supporters of an allegedly Iran-linked militant group in Iraq targeted by U.S. airstrikes on Sunday have surrounded the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Hours after the Iraqi Shiite-dominated government described deadly U.S. airstrikes on the ...
“We will not stand for the Islamic Republic of Iran to take actions that put American men and women in jeopardy.” At least 25 militants were reportedly killed on Sunday and about 55 others wounded ...
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