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 ...
Biden must recognize that the best way to protect U.S. personnel in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region is to take them out of the Middle East. The U.S. bombing of Syria on Thursday ...
American neocons and hawks, including those inside his own administration, appear to be flexing their muscles to kill Biden’s commitment to diplomacy at birth, and his own hawkish foreign policy views make him dangerously susceptible to their ...
So much vital work to be done—that must be done—for a more a peaceful world. Donald Trump loves executive orders as a tool of dictatorial power, avoiding the need to work through Congress. But that ...
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 ...
President Rouhani announced the discovery of a huge new oilfield in Iran, but will Iran have any buyers as U.S. sanctions continue to scare off customers? Standing in the desert city of Yazd, Iranian President ...
“The United States has walked into a corner. By sanctioning Iran, it has suggested that it is not interested in diplomacy.” Word of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to sanction Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif ...
The U.S. plans for a naval armada in Hormuz will run against the Laws of Seas and Iran’s sovereignty over its territorial waters. We are now sleepwalking to a new war in the region with ...
“The ball is in Europe’s court. Are Paris, London and Berlin going to again waste a chance under the influence of (U.S. President Donald) Trump, or use the remaining opportunity to fulfill their promises and ...
“I think there is a possible opening that Iran would sign an agreement saying that they won’t develop a nuclear weapon, ever.” Last week, Iran announced its readiness to defuse ongoing tensions with the U.S. ...
“The Stena Impero was seized in Omani waters in clear contravention of international law. It was then forced to sail into Iran. This is totally and utterly unacceptable.” “A British-flagged oil tanker remains in Iranian ...
If the JCPoA can be salvaged, the world may avoid war in Iran. “Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million liters of ‘smuggled fuel,’ state news agency Press TV said ...
There are signs of a new tanker war in the Persian Gulf, with Britain joining a coalition that wants a war with Iran. The standoff between the U.S. and Iran is now developing into a ...
“The risks are such that it is necessary for all stakeholders to pause, and consider the possible consequences of their actions.” Europe did not want Trump and the United States to walk out of the ...
![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 15")
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 ...
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 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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
“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, ...
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