![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 "Trump’s Version of the Iran Accord: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose 1")
Trump and Bolton’s game plan is, and has always been, to beat Iran into total submission. Trump’s Iran policy is akin to that of a schoolyard bully. More worrying is the passivity of the rest ...
“This is the first time that the E.U. has done something so public and so aggressive. I imagine it was also coordinated in some manner with the U.S. given that NATO member forces have been ...
The government of Gibraltar thanked British forces for seizing an oil tanker bound for Syria on Thursday. British Royal Marines and port officials of Gibraltar boarded an oil tanker believed to be bound for Syria ...
The annual G-20 summit wrapped up in Japan, but while it was long on topics it remains to be seen whether it will result in any action. On Saturday, June 29, the annual summit of ...
Editor’s note: Iran has breached a limit on enriching uranium that was imposed in a 2015 agreement restricting its nuclear activities. Under the deal, the United States and five other world powers lifted economic sanctions ...
“There is no military solution to this problem.” (By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Iraqi President Barham Salih said Tuesday that the United States has no right to use his country as a launchpad for a ...
“The strategy of maximum pressure is not designed to induce negotiations, but rather to push Iran away from the negotiating table while triggering further Iranian provocations that could serve as a pretext for war.” The ...
Addressing President Donald Trump directly, the Minnesota congresswoman said, “Do not listen to the warmongers and war profiteers whispering in your ear. (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Citing her firsthand experience of the horrors of ...
There was unanimity on the strike, led by national security adviser Bolton. Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were also in agreement. On Friday morning United States President Donald Trump tweeted ...
Documents reveal that MEK, an Iranian dissident organization labeled a terrorist group as recently as 2012, has been ramping up its influence network in Washington D.C. in recent months. (By Reid Champlin, Center for Responsive ...
In 2017, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a special unit — the Iran Mission Center — to focus attention on the U.S. plans against Iran. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was adamant ...
“This is how the United States operates these days. They have written rules, and then they call you to explain that there are also unwritten rules that they want you to follow.” While the mystery ...
“According to the officials, since Friday, the White House has been holding incessant discussions involving senior military commanders, Pentagon representatives and advisers to President Donald Trump.” Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated on ...
“Secretary Pompeo gives zero proof but insists that Iran is responsible for ship attacks in Gulf of Oman. Lies, lies, and more lies to make a case for war.” In a press conference that immediately evoked ...
That view – that Bolton is driving Trump into a perilous military confrontation with America’s principal foe in the Middle East – is ricocheting across the globe. “Under a starry sky, U.S. Navy fighter jets ...
“It’s easier to meet people. Maybe indirectly to show support to Trump.” A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who has been lobbying for regime change in Iran spent 26 days at the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. ...
The UNDP is giving 72 vehicles to an agency controlled by Houthi rebels, prompting the Yemen government to accuse the UNDP of favoritism and worsening the situation in Yemen. The internationally-recognized government of Yemen strongly ...
European allies voiced concern this week that the U.S.-Iran tensions could accidentally trigger a conflict after the Pentagon dispatched a Patriot missile defense battery, a bomber task force, an amphibious transport dock and a carrier ...
“What I saw was a lot of misinterpretation and wanting conflict coming from the administration and intelligence community. Intel doesn’t show existential threats. Even what it shows, it doesn’t show threats to U.S. interests.”—Ruben Gallego ...
“President Trump is only using this loophole because he knows Congress would disapprove … There is no new’ emergency’ reason to sell bombs to the Saudis to drop in Yemen, and doing so only perpetuates ...
“This is not a military confrontation because no war is to happen. We don’t seek a war, nor do they. They know a war wouldn’t be beneficial for them.” Iran has finally officially halted several ...
“Carrying out acts of sabotage on commercial and civilian vessels and threatening the safety and lives of those on board is a serious development.” (Newsclick.In) Saudi Arabia said on Monday two of its oil tankers ...
“The latest indication that this administration is running full speed directly into a major war with Iran.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In a late Sunday statement warning—without any evidence whatsoever—of “troubling and escalatory” actions by ...
“This decision is intended to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero, denying the regime its principal source of revenue.” President Donald Trump revoked sanction exemptions that were issued last November for China, India, Japan, South ...
Cybercrime, ISIS, climate change, tense relations between international countries all top the list of a Pew poll on the greatest threats facing us in 2019. According to a survey released on February 11 by the ...
“All I want to do is be able to watch,” Trump said in an interview regarding his plan to keep troops in Iraq to monitor Iran. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump told CBS that ...
The FBI released Marzieh Hashemi, 59, an American-born Iranian journalist from a 10-day detention in Washington, DC, as a material witness in a criminal matter before a grand jury.
The FBI released Marzieh Hashemi, 59, an American-born Iranian journalist from a 10-day detention in Washington, DC, as a material witness in a criminal matter before a grand jury. Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin, was reunited ...
New documents reveal how Isreal’s nuclear program came to be and details the history of the program’s development. Haaretz contributor and historian, Adam Raz disclosed that documents he received from a confidential source after a speaking ...
Citizen Truth journalist Catherine Shakdam reports on the US detainment of Iranian American journalist Marzieh Hashemi and the movement to #FreeMarzieh. News broke this Tuesday of the arrest of prominent US-born Iranian TV anchor, Marzieh Hashemi, ...
“If Secretary Pompeo wants regional stability, human rights, and an end to U.S. military adventures and endless wars, he would press his boss to return to the Iran deal, pursue and facilitate good-faith diplomacy among ...
The arrest of China’s tech giant Huawei’s Chief Financial Director enters a new chapter after new documents expose close ties to possible Huawei “shell” companies. According to a Reuters report, new documents revealed that Chinese tech multinational ...
“‘Virginity testing’ has no scientific or clinical basis. There is no examination that can prove a girl or woman has had sex.” “WHO, UN Human Rights and UN Women have today issued a statement calling ...
“Economic War” and the U.S. imposes the “toughest sanctions ever” on Iran. The Trump administration officially imposed a second round of economic sanctions on Iran, describing them as “the toughest sanctions” ever slapped on Tehran, ...
Demands for transparency from Saudi Arabia following the mysterious disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi are putting the Trump administration in an awkward situation. Khashoggi was a Washington Post columnist who strangely vanished in the kingdom’s consulate ...
After a ruling by the ICJ that angered the U.S., the country is now looking at pulling out of all international agreements that expose them to ICJ jurisdiction. Last Wednesday, the Trump administration pulled out ...
Will a four-nation summit in Germany resolve the ongoing crisis in the Idlib province of Syria and will rebel groups abide by any “buffer zone”? German Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to hold a meeting ...
With so many dangerous unknowns revolving around the MKO/MEK and its proclivity to shed blood, Washington’s wholehearted support boggles the mind. Strong on the legitimacy his office grants him U.S. State Department Mike Pompeo was ...
Estimates published Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Department show the U.S. is the world’s largest crude oil producer for the first time since 1973. American oil production has doubled over the past decade, with much ...
(RadioFreeEurope) Israel’s defense chief has warned that his country will seek to “destroy any Iranian military presence” in Syria, where Tehran has intervened to prop up its ally President Bashar al-Assad in a war that ...
So why is the US really messing around with Iran? In a word, control. By controlling Iran, which contains a huge percentage of the world’s oil reserves, at least for now, the US can control ...
On Friday, ABC Australia reported that the U.S. would launch a missile attack on Iran as early as next month. The report stemmed from President Donald Trump’s threatening tweet in response to Iranian President Hassan ...
North Korea called the meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “regrettable” which contrasted with the statement from the former C.I.A. boss that the talks were very productive. On Friday, Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang, ...
(RFE/RL) Close allies of U.S. President Donald Trump have told a “Free Iran” rally in Paris that the end of the Iranian regime is near and that sanctions against the country will be “greater, greater, ...
On Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition launched an attack on Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah, a rebel stronghold with a population of roughly 600,000 in the area. Many humanitarian agencies strongly warned of a possible major ...
On Saturday, leaders of seven industrialized nations (Canada, France, the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany, and Italy) signed a joint statement vowing to overcome protectionism and curb trade barriers as the G7 summit held in ...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has no obligations to save Israel if a war between the Jewish state and Iran occurs, as NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Der Spiegel last Saturday. Israel is not ...
(FactCheck.org, by Robert Farley) With gasoline prices rising, Sen. Chuck Schumer placed the blame on President Donald Trump, and specifically his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. But experts say that decision has had ...
The European Commission (EC) will reactivate the “blocking statue” that bans companies and courts within the European Union (EU) bloc to abide by the U.S. sanctions on Iran. The blocking statute was designed in 1996 ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to further discuss the impact of sanctions against Iran on firms operating in the Islamic country. The leaders previously had a telephone conversation that ...
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