We have noted internal divisions in Iran over the nuclear issue. This story from the Jan. 23 New York Times provides another piece of the puzzle, and greater nuance than the corporate media generally display on the Tehran regime: TEHRAN… Read moreIran: ayatollah criticizes Ahmadinejad on nuclear issue
Israeli historian Benny Morris, once seen as a post-Zionist dissident, produces a terrifying piece of war propaganda. Far be it from us to be optimistic, but this scenario strikes us as a long shot. Is Ahmedinejad likely to still be… Read moreBenny Morris predicts new Holocaust
A telling story by Marc Perelman for New York’s Jewish weekly The Forward Jan. 12 (links and emphasis added): A campaign to convince Iran’s 25,000 Jews to flee the country has stalled, with most opting to stay in their native… Read moreIranian Jews resist outside pressure to emigrate
We’ve argued repeatedly that strategic imperatives related to global control of oil are propelling the US towards intervention in Iran. But it is looking more and more like Israel could throw the first punch. Tragically, the bellicose Israelis seem to… Read moreIDF officer calls for strikes on Iran
Scott Ritter is the latest to join the fast-growing chorus that would exculpate the petro-elites by blaming the Iraq adventure—and now the looming Iran intervention—on the Israel lobby. Supposed progressives like Democracy Now! are lapping it up. We will point… Read moreScott Ritter: Israel lobby pushes Iran attack
What’s really depressing about this opinion piece is that the writer really appears to believe his absurd thesis that Israel must assert its independence from the US by nuking Iran—whereas we have argued again and again and again that Israel… Read moreIsrael to nuke Iran?
We can only hope. How interesting that Iran’s opposition lawmakers manifestly have more courage than Washington’s Democrats. From the Italian news agency AKI, Jan. 9: TEHRAN – Iranian reformist lawmakers have started collecting signatures in Parliament to demand the impeachment of… Read moreIran: move to impeach Ahmadinejad
In our last post about the Holocaust denail confab in Iran, we asked whether the rumors are true that anti-Zionist writer Norman G. Finkelstein is participating. Alan “torture could be justified” Dershowitz explores the question on the ostensibly liberal Huffington… Read moreIs Norman Finkelstein at Tehran Holocaust-denial confab?
From Human Rights Watch, Dec. 11: The Iranian Judiciary should prosecute officials responsible for the arbitrary detention and alleged torture of several bloggers in 2004, instead of prosecuting the bloggers for expressing their opinions, Human Rights Watch said today. On… Read moreHRW to Iran: Prosecute torturers, not bloggers
From The Scostman, Dec. 12: A conference of the world’s most prominent Holocaust deniers opened in Iran yesterday amid international condemnation and protests by dozens of Iranian students, who burned pictures of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and chanted “death to the… Read moreIran: protesters condemn Holocaust conference
It was inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any more probable. How can the GWOT propagandists buy this thesis while Tehran’s agents and al-Qaeda’s local franchise are locked in a death struggle for control of Iraq? Maybe it’s because they’re… Read moreNext: Iran-al-Qaeda link?
From AFP via Qatar’s Gulf Times, Nov. 12 (commentary to follow): Iran vows to hit back if Israel launches attack TEHRAN — Iran’s armed forces yesterday vowed to hit back against any military strike after a top Israeli official refused… Read moreIsrael threatens Iran —again!
