A statement from the Organization of Women’s Liberation in Iran (OWLI): Azar Majedi in a round table discussion with BBC Radio Scotland: Military attack on Iran is a human and environmental tragedy in the region! On 25 February 2007, Azar… Read moreIran: civil opposition rejects US aggression
From the British Ahwazi Friendship Society, Feb. 14: An Ahwazi Arab teacher, Reisan Sawari, died while on hunger strike on Tuesday. Sawari had been held in solitary confinement for a year and was protesting against his conditions. He was a… Read moreIran: teacher dies on hunger strike
Eighteen people were killed when a bomb exploded next to a bus owned by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the southeast city of Zahedan, the official IRNA news agency reports. “In this act 18 Zahedan citizens have been martyred,” said Qassim… Read moreTerror strikes Iran: Baluchistan blowback?
Michael R. Gordon‘s Feb. 10 New York Times story, “Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, US Says,” backs up some administration claims: “The most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iraq is an explosive-packed cylinder that United… Read moreIran link to Iraq insurgents: more NYT jive?
We have already noted rampant conspiracy theories in the fluctuating oil prices. We’ll here’s more grist for the mill. From NBC News, Jan. 26: Oil traders and others believe that the Saudi decision to let the price of oil tumble… Read moreSaudis waging oil-price war on Iran?
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
